The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the January 21 derailment of a freight train at Creighton in northern Victoria.
A safety investigation brief released recently by the ATSB details
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North Queensland rainfall inundates cane railways
Queensland’s sugarcane growers’ association is unsure of the extent of damage so far caused by monsoon conditions in the state’s north, with rail infrastructure reportedly inundated by flooding.
Canegrowers
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$7.2m to build new Henty rail crossing
GrainCorp has welcomed a joint commitment from federal, state and local governments to facilitate direct access for B-Doubles to its facility at Henty and build a safer new railway crossing nearby.
The
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Graffiti costs slashed with new technologies
Graffiti costs rail operators and local governments tens of millions of dollars each year, not only in clean-up costs, but also through thousands of man hours spent on policing and security which rarely
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Safety bureau to probe Geelong level crossing failure
Safety experts will investigate why boom gates failed to lower when the Overland passenger service passed through a level crossing in North Geelong earlier this month.
According to an early report from
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Digitisation adds new dimension to track maintenance
Specialty machine supplier Plasser Australia outlines its contribution to a “new era” in track construction and maintenance.
Plasser is using the latest in sensor and communications technology to give
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Defibrillators rolled out to Perth stations
Western Australia’s Public Transport Authority (PTA) has installed 18 potentially lifesaving defibrillators at train stations around the Transperth network, as part of a trial in partnership with St
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WA progressing rail access reforms
The WA Government has proposed methods to make it easier for third parties to use the state’s privately operated railways, in a draft decision paper released at the end of December.
The paper proposes
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Leak, sinkhole delay Perth Airport rail link
The opening of Perth’s Forrestfield-Airport Link will be delayed roughly a year after a leak damaged one of the project’s tunnels and created a sinkhole in September.
16 concrete rings shifted, 26
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Disability compliance the focus of $18m pedestrian crossing program
An $18 million program to ensure Perth’s pedestrian level crossings comply with disability standards has begun, with 22 crossings to be upgraded over the next 12 months.
Pedestrian crossings on the Midland,
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