Victoria’s government has announced the board of its new transport planning body, Infrastructure Victoria, with members selected from industry, academia and the public service.
It is expected the new
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Aurizon could be biggest loser in WICET fallout
Aurizon says a dispute with the owners of Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal (WICET) over payments for the terminal’s rail loop could cost it up to $27 million every year for the next two decades.
The
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Perth Freight Link: a local’s view
Controversy around the Perth Freight Link has become highly emotive for local citizens and a huge political football for the government, Kent Stewart writes.
A recent article
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Hunter Valley to shut down for maintenance
The Australian Rail Track Corporation will close the Hunter Valley coal rail network for three days next week as part of scheduled maintenance work.
The network-wide maintenance shutdown will kick in at
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Federal funding talks progress Gold Coast extension
Request for Tenders will open for Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 2 following positive funding discussions between Queensland transport minister Jackie Trad and federal infrastructure minister Warren Truss.
Stage
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Wagga appoints preferred proponent for Riverina hub
The City of Wagga Wagga Council has announced the preferred proponent for stage two of the Riverina Intermodal Freight and Logistics (RiFL) Hub, designed to improve rail access to the export market.
Genesee
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Work to begin on St Albans crossing removal
The consortium of Leighton Contractors, Aurecon and Hyder Consulting will begin works at the Main Road level crossing in St Albans, north-west of Melbourne, as part of a $481.2 million, four-crossing removal
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Alstom tipped as train provider in $3.6bn high speed program
A US senator has tabbed French multinational Alstom to provide train sets for a US$2.5 billion (A$3.56 billion) program for the next generation high-speed fleet for national passenger rail corporation
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Lynxrail lands condition monitoring deal for Roy Hill
Perth-based engineering business Lynxrail has secured a contract to install its Automated Train Examiner (ATEx) technology on the new Roy Hill rail line 33km from Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of
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Coal facility built for expansion; but will it ever come?
ANALYSIS: Queensland’s newest coal rail and export terminal has a stage one capacity of 27 million tonnes a year, and is designed to expand to more than four times that. But with coal prices down, and
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