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NWRL?s new safety consultancy looks to push into Oz

<span class="" id="parent-fieldname-description"> Network Rail Consultancy is targeting the Australian region as a market to offer services for the rail industry, the company’s general manager for Australia and New Zealand Peter Koning tells Rail Express. </span> <p><span style="font-size:10.0ptline-height:115%Arial&quot,&quotsans-serif&quot">Network Rail Consultancy, part of Network Rail – the owner/operator of most of Britain’s rail infrastructure – was just named as the safety consultant for Sydney’s North West Rail Link, and the company’s general manager for Australia and New Zealnd, Peter Koning believes that deal will be the first of many ways the company can impart its wisdom Down Under.</span></p><div><span style="font-size:10.0ptline-height:115%Arial&quot,&quotsans-serif&quot">“The fundamental theory is about railways talking to each other,” Koning told <i>Rail Express</i>. “It’s about the sharing of experiences &hellip we can understand what’s happening around the world, and tell other parts of the world what we’re doing.</span>