Coal junior Bounty Mining says a $2 million rail capacity upgrade at Cook Colliery in Queensland’s Bowen Basin has reduced operating costs by at least $5 a tonne.
Bounty told the ASX on August 14 it
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Strong result for BlueScope Steel
Australian steelmaker BlueScope has delivered its largest profit since 2005 and outlined billion-dollar plans to expand its United States operations.
BlueScope Steel on Monday revealed a 10% sales growth
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More track, stops built on Sydney Light Rail route
Construction is progressing across the CBD and South East light rail line, with stop installations beginning and utilities works beginning to be wrapped up in many zones.
Civil construction continues to
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Vossloh acquires Austrak
Global rail infrastructure specialist Vossloh has bought Australian sleeper manufacturer Austrak from Laing O’Rourke for roughly $50 million.
Austrak said on August 6 it would be acquired by Vossloh.
Founded
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Andrews targets marginal seats in Hurstbridge plan
Daniel Andrews has vowed to spend more than half a billion dollars duplicating 4.5 kilometres of the Hurstbridge Line in Melbourne’s north-east, but will not duplicate certain sections it views as unnecessary.
With
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ARTC opens doors to suppliers for first Inland Rail construction
The Australian Rail Track Corporation has set up three briefings for local businesses and suppliers ahead of construction on the Parkes-Narromine section of the Inland Rail project, with the call put out
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Melbourne’s level crossing works provide track and ballast for heritage railway
A volunteer project to restore the disused railway between Healesville and Yarra Glen in Victoria has been given a big leg up, receiving track and ballast donations from the authority removing Melbourne’s
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$7m in Inland Rail contracts awarded
The Australian Rail Track Corporation has awarded a pair of new contracts for the supply of ballast and capping for the first section of Inland Rail, between Parkes and Narromine.
Parkes-based company
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$130m to ‘untangle’ Ballarat rail network
The Victorian government will spend $130 million delivering track and signalling upgrades on the Ballarat rail network, with the aim of providing more efficient routes for freight between the Murray Basin
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Govs provide timetable for regional rail
Upgrades to the Ballarat Line will be complete by 2019, the Warrnambool Line will be upgraded by 2020, and the Geelong, Gippsland and Bendigo Echuca lines will follow, according to a new timetable released
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