After “significant progress” repairing its heavily-damaged North Coast network in the past week, the Australian Rail Track Corporation has brought forward the re-opening of the interstate line.
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11 rail commitments in Victorian Budget
Victorian transport minister Jacinta Allan has described the state’s 2015/16 Budget as “the biggest investment in public transport in Victoria’s history,” with as much as $6.32
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Tackling Australia’s massive rail asset management task
The scale of the asset management task in Australia’s rail industry is enormous, and it’s essential for the industry to understand the need to adopt consistent and interoperable standards, director
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Rail’s R U OK? day “a great blueprint for other sectors”
Suicide prevention charity R U OK? has hailed rail’s first R U OK?Day in April as a success, with general manager Brendan Maher saying rail is setting a standard for other sectors to follow.
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Vic commits $2bn for rail, sets out Rolling Stock Strategy
Victoria’s Labor Government will on Tuesday announce a $2 billion plan to deliver 83 new trams and trains across the state’s metro and regional trains and tram network.
Premier Daniel Andrews on Monday
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Andrews announces $257m for new regional carriages
Bombardier will deliver 21 new VLocity carriages to Victoria’s regional network under a $257 million commitment in the state Budget.
The funding also includes money to build a new maintenance and stabling
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Asciano, Aurizon, G&W and others tell Abbott: The time has come for Inland Rail
A collection of rail, logistics and freight companies have appealed, in an open letter to the prime minister, for the government to “finish the job” of building the Inland Rail project.
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Work begins on Auckland’s newest train station
KiwiRail is working to engage contractors to complete design and refurbishment of the former Newmarket station building, before it is relocated to a new $18.9 million site at Parnell, where earthworks
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PTV chair steps down
Public Transport Victoria chairman Ian Dobbs has told premier Daniel Andrews he will not be returning to his post at the end of his current term on June 30.
Andrews announced on Friday that Dobbs had informed
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ARA backs Queensland in federal funding fight
Australasian Railway Association chief executive Bryan Nye has backed Queensland transport minister Jackie Trad’s call for federal funding of urban rail, calling the Moreton Bay Rail line “symbolic”
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