After a successful 2023 Women in Industry awards, Prime Creative Media has announced the launch of the 2024 event.
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New carriages for Capital Connection
KiwiRail’s Capital Connection will now offer passengers a smoother ride between Palmerston North and Wellington, as newly refurbished carriages come into operation.
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Environmental gains from Parramatta green track
The longest green track in Australia is providing a sustainable alternative for the first stage of the Parramatta Light Rail project in New South Wales.
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Siemens Mobility signs interoperability MoC
Siemens Mobility has signed the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with governments and industry, aimed at enhancing rail interoperability throughout Australia and addressing long-standing legacy issues in the rail industry.
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Rail skills forum tackles workforce shortage
Leaders from government, transport, education, skills, and unions are joining with international experts in Melbourne today to tackle a chronic workforce shortage in Australia’s rail industry.
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ARA says Sydney Metro West cannot be scrapped
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) says the Sydney Metro West line to Parramatta must proceed as planned, as it would ultimately be more expensive to halt works already underway and severely impact Sydney’s growing western suburbs.
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EIS approval for North Star Inland Rail section
The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the North Star to New South Wales/Queensland Border section of Inland Rail has been approved, marking another step in the approvals pathway for the interstate freight rail project.
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CRR Boggo Road works suspended after worker fall
Work on Cross River Rail (CRR)’s Boggo Road worksite has been suspended following an incident on Tuesday, in which a worker fell from height.
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TBM named after women’s rights advocate
A third tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been launched for the Sydney Metro-Western Sydney Airport project, named after a prominent women’s rights advocate.
The machine will be used at Orchard Hills in a major milestone towards the delivery of world-class metro services.
This is the first Sydney Metro project to use earth pressure balance TBMs, which are designed to support the ground as they excavate through shale rock and clay along the northern section of the line.
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Eileen breaks through for Sydney Airport project
Mega tunnel boring machine (TBM) Eileen has crushed through a wall of rock to arrive at the Airport Terminal metro station site, marking the first tunnel breakthrough for the city-shaping Sydney Metro-Western Sydney Airport project.
Since launching at Airport Business Park in April 2023, Eileen has worked around the clock to excavate around 112,000 tonnes of rock – enough to fill about 18 Olympic swimming pools.
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