COMMENTARY: Things are not looking good for steelmaker and miner Arrium, especially for its South Australian operations. As well as the obvious social and economic issues, the fate of the Whyalla Steelworks
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Things not looking too good at the station
COMMENT: Rail freight in Australia is in the doldrums with reduced revenues and profits combined with falling volumes and some aspects of the industry going backwards at a rate not seen since the pre-privatisation
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Will these guys ever make up their minds?
COMMENT: The saga surrounding the takeover of Pacific National’s parent company Asciano has seen a number of twist and turns, while uncertainty remains as to just what form our second largest rail freight
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It’s a hard, hard road we travel
COMMENT: Recent comments from Aurizon CEO Lance Hockridge highlight the fact that the current road user charging system still results in the lack of a level playing field for freight transport and that
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Can you believe these guys?
COMMENT: Light rail expansion in Sydney, and the success of the Gold Coast network, are in stark contrast to the dark mutterings coming out of Western Australia, where the state government is scrambling
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Brookfield’s risky business
COMMENT: Asciano’s heavy reliance on the slumping coal sector raises the stakes of Brookfield’s recent acquisition move, Mark Carter writes.
Despite rumours for some time
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20 years on; A pair of interstate milestones
Mark Carter takes a nostalgic look at the 20-year anniversaries of a pair of key events in the development and expansion of the interstate rail freight network, away from the government owned freight operators
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Newcastle closure is public transport done wrong
COMMENT: All of the spin in the world can’t cover up the fact that one of Australia’s largest cities has lost its direct rail link with Sydney, as Australia once again tries to swim against the tide
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No more train to the Mallee
OPINION: Both Victoria and New South Wales have recently allocated money in their annual budgets for grain carrying branch lines in their states, but South Australian (and Western Australian) farmers have
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Carter: Budget blues are business as usual for rail
COMMENT: As already reported in Rail Express, for a second year in a row there is no new funding, nor any new initiatives for rail in the federal budget. And it’s hard not to be cynical about
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