Extra freight services have been running across the Sydney network to service the increased demand for essential supplies and to ensure Australia’s exports get to ports.
Chair of the Freight on Rail
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Preliminary report into Jumperkine collision released
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released its preliminary report into a freight train collision at Jumperkine in Western Australia.
The collision occurred on 24 December, 2019, when a
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Joint communiqué affirms indispensability of rail freight
Australia’s largest rail freight operators and infrastructure managers have welcomed statements by Australian governments ensuring that rail freight services continue despite state border closures and
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The effect of extreme weather on rail and track infrastructure
As severe weather events become more intense and frequent, rail infrastructure owners and mangers are responding to this new reality.
Documenting the risks that climate change poses
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Changes to rail access regime welcomed by industry
Western Australian rail operators and infrastructure managers have positively responded to the WA government’s announced changes to the state’s Rail Access Regime.
The changes include: changes
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Arc Infrastructure’s top 2020 priorities
Arc Infrastructure last week named Murray Cook as its newly appointed CEO, effective 1 January 2020. Cook spoke to Rail Express about his priorities for the new year.
Cook has been executive director
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Arc Infrastructure committed to WA SuperNet
Arc Infrastructure have this week reaffirmed their commitment to the WA SuperNet project, a planned enterprise-grade, affordable broadband service along 4000km of WA’s grain railway line.
Arc Infrastructure,
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Grain growers win access to grain freight rail network
A dispute over access to Western Australia’s Grain Freight Rail Network has ended, but grain trucks will still be used while the freight line remains closed.
Arc Infrastructure, which manages the freight
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Steel sleeper system trialled on Goldfields freight line
Arc Infrastructure has trialled a new style of sleeper on a freight line running from Leonora to Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields region of Western Australia.
The line is undergoing $2.3 million of improvements,
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