Archive for category: Rail

Industry calls for container rail incentive scheme
Imogen Hartmann, , News, NSW, Rail, spotlight, Transport, 1The freight industry is seeking a container rail incentive scheme for exporters and importers from the NSW Government, to...
Digitally Enabled Assets: infrastructure management for the 20s
Patricia Mae Tagabe, , Asset Management, Condition monitoring and maintenance, Digital technologies, Featured, Industry Insight, Planning, Project, Rail, Smart Cities, Software, Technology, Transport, 0The need to leverage digital is paramount to being an efficient infrastructure owner, manager or operator. Julian Watts from...
Metro Tunnel’s advance work pays off
Patricia Mae Tagabe, , Construction, Featured, Project, Rail, Transport, Tunnel, VIC, 1Tunnelling and underground expert Paul Thomas has worked on projects all around the world, but Melbourne has its own...
Australia’s biggest rail infrastructure projects
Patricia Mae Tagabe, , Construction, Featured, NSW, Project, QLD, Rail, Transport, VIC, 0by Eliza Booth, Journalist, Infrastructure magazine There’s a lot happening in the rail infrastructure space across Australia. From expansions...
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has published a report calling for the prioritisation of rail innovation to avoid Australia...
How the rail industry is driving a post-COVID economy
Patricia Mae Tagabe, , COVID-19, Disaster Management, Featured, Logistics, Planning, Rail, Transport, 1by Mark Campbell, CEO of Australian Rail Track Corporation. There has been a lot written about how the pandemic...
Sydney Metro’s Martin Place caverns complete
Imogen Hartmann, , Construction, News, NSW, Project, Rail, Transport, 0Track-laying and construction of the new underground station to service Sydney CBD is set to commence, with the metro...
2020 Australasian Rail Industry Award winners announced
Imogen Hartmann, , Awards, News, Rail, spotlight, Transport, 0The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has announced the winners of outstanding achievements at the Australasian Rail Industry Awards virtual...
$370 million Crows Nest Station contract awarded
Imogen Hartmann, , Construction, Contracts awarded, News, Project, Rail, spotlight, Transport, VIC, 0The $370 million contract has been awarded to build Sydney Metro’s new Crows Nest Station. The New South Wales...
$700 million METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line contract awarded
Imogen Hartmann, , Construction, Contracts awarded, News, Project, Rail, Transport, WA, 0The highly anticipated $700 million main construction contract for the METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line has been awarded. The contract was...
20 Cross River Rail trains to be locally built under new commitment
Imogen Hartmann, , Construction, News, Project, QLD, Rail, Transport, 0The Queensland Government has committed to having the first 20 trains of Brisbane’s Cross River Rail built in Maryborough,...
Ararat sleeper replacement completion ticks total over 100,000
Imogen Hartmann, , News, Project, Rail, Transport, VIC, 0Victoria’s $9.5 million program to replace 34,000 sleepers on rail track between Ararat and Wendouree has recently been completed,...
Western Australia’s $27 billion transport infrastructure budget
Imogen Hartmann, , Construction, News, Project, Rail, Road, Transport, WA, 0The Western Australian Government has released a suite of investments under its 2020-21 State Budget which includes an overall...
Federal Budget Breakdown– $7.5 billion for transport infrastructure around the country
Imogen Hartmann, , Airport, Congestion, Logistics, News, Planning, Project, Rail, Road, spotlight, Transport, 0The highly anticipated 2020-21 Federal Budget has been released and features significant funding for Australia’s infrastructure industry, with a...
Request for Proposals for METRONET extension
Eliza Booth, , Construction, Contracts awarded, News, Project, Rail, WA, 0The Western Australian Government is now seeking Request for Proposals to start work on the METRONET Byford Rail Extension,...
Metro’s cadet program boosts engineering opportunities
Imogen Hartmann, , Construction, News, Project, Rail, Transport, VIC, 0Metro Trains, in partnership with the Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP), has seen its Engineering Pathways Industry Cadetship (EPIC)...
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