Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The New South Wales Government has announced children under 16 will be able to travel on CountryLink trains over summer for $1 a journey.
The child needs to be accompanied by a parent or guardian, and up to four children from the one family will be able to take advantage of the offer.
A child fare to the state's north is usually about $50 one-way.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The New South Wales Opposition has criticised the appointment of the new head of RailCorp, Elizabeth Crouch.
The Opposition says it is concerned because Ms Crouch was previously in charge of the Public Transport Ticketing Corporation, the agency that was dealing with the failed T-Card ticketing system.
NSW Transport Minister David Campbell has defended the appointment.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The Lachlan Valley Railway Society is urging people to sign a petition to save five western rail lines from closure.
The state Nationals' MP Katrina Hodgkinson has launched a petition calling on the New South Wales Government to overturn its decision.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
Ports and Waterways Minister Joe Tripodi says he would like to see the Maldon to Dombarton rail link go ahead, subject to certain conditions.
The New South Wales Government has been reluctant to endorse completion of the rail link by referring to it regularly as a Federal Government responsibility.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The Property Council of Australia has resurrected the very fast train (VFT) proposal saying it is the ideal project to help Canberra weather the economic crisis.
The council has released a wishlist of 10 infrastructure projects with the Sydney to Canberra high-speed rail-link at the top of the list.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
New South Wales Transport Minister David Campbell has defended a proposed new CityRail timetable that would reduce services at some stations in north Sydney.
Mr Campbell says there will be fewer services at the Eastwood and West Ryde stations, but the timetable would improve services for most of the network.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The NSW government says it's "cracking the whip" to ensure defects on the $2.3 billion Epping to Chatswood rail line don't delay the project.
A government report has exposed thousands of flaws in the way the tracks have been fixed to 19km of concrete slabs, Fairfax Media reported on Wednesday.
The epoxy used on the project was often water-affected or contaminated, bolts and clips have been incorrectly tensioned and sleepers have been cracked, the report said.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
A new CityRail timetable to be unveiled on Monday will signal the biggest increase in capacity for the network since Sydney's eastern suburbs railway opened nearly 30 years ago.
Construction of the Epping to Chatswood line, at a cost of $2.3 billion, and track upgrades at Hornsby, Berowra, Revesby and Macdonaldtown, costing $250 million, has underpinned the timetable, The Sydney Morning Herald says.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
A Wollongong transport group has rejected calls by the Minister for Transport to keep a proposed increase in rail fares to a minimum.
Under proposals by the Independent Regulatory and Pricing Tribunal (IPART), Wollongong and Kiama residents commuting to Sydney could face a $9 per week fare increase.
Transport Minister David Campbell has called on IPART to reduce the proposed fare increase by 1.2 per cent.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
NSW Premier Nathan Rees says any move to bring in single-deck train carriages is a long way down the track.
The State Government has yet to take delivery of more than 600 double-deck carriages which are due to come on line from next year.
But a spokeswoman for the Transport Minister David Campbell says it has already had to begin the process of planning for their replacement.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) chief executive officer, David Marchant, has rejected claims rail infrastructure on the New South Wales Hunter's coal chain is shoddy and out of date.
In a submission to Infrastructure Australia, the Minerals Council of Australia has labelled the coal chain a planning failure.
It says it contains old mismatched rail infrastructure and ancient train signalling systems that in many cases only work one way.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
THE NSW Government is planning to convert Sydney's rail network back to single-deck trains. NSW Transport Minister David Campbell confirmed the plans to buy single-deck trains, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
"There is a long-term strategic direction to start investing in single-deck rolling stock," Mr Campbell told the Herald.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The New South Wales Government has broken an election commitment to build a train station at the University of Western Sydney, near Penrith.
A day after the Government reneged on two other promises, Transport Minister David Campbell has confirmed the station will not be built following a review by retired Carr government minister Andrew Refshauge.
"The review included targeted meetings, letters to identified stakeholders, advertisements in local newspapers, a letterbox drop in the area surrounding the proposed station site and a public hearing," Mr Campbell said in a statement to the ABC.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees has confirmed he is scrapping the North-West Metro rail project.
Transport Minister David Campbell says the $12 billion project has been deferred indefinitely because of the State Government's changed financial circumstances, with revenue shortfalls of about $90 million a month.
"I think what we're doing today is being upfront and honest with people of the north-west that in changed financial cirumstances this very difficult decision has been made as part of the mini-Budget context," he said.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
RailCorp says it knew all along that it would have to carry out major works on CityRail platforms to allow new Millennium trains to operate.
Seventy-eight new trains will be delivered by 2010.
The Daily Telegraph is reporting that RailCorp management decided to move the guards' compartment from the middle of the trains to the rear without realising the platform indicator lights would then have to be moved at a cost of $10 million.
Posted 10 years ago by nadnerb_2000
From the Sydney Morning Herald: A BURST high-pressure gas main at Revesby, and the electrocution of passengers at Lidcombe Station were "future catastrophic events" that were narrowly averted in two bungled rail projects that have cost NSW well in excess of $150 million.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The proposed inland rail project is the most obvious infrastructure project to stimulate Australia’s economy and protect it against the deepening global financial crisis, Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton has said.
Mr. Coulton called on the government to urgently consider the project following an announcement by Prime Minster Kevin Rudd that the government was creating a short-list of infrastructure projects to invest in as part of the $20 billion Building Australia Fund.
Mr. Coulton said the ambitious Melbourne to Brisbane rail link had the potential to change the course of the country and steer Australia’s economy away from recession.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The NSW government says it is confident noise levels akin to a landing Boeing 737 can be addressed without further delaying the opening of the Epping to Chatswood railway line.
RailCorp chief executive Rob Mason said the noise exceeded acceptable levels when train carriages tested on the track travelled the steep, curved section under the Lane Cove River.
"Yes, the noise, using our existing CityRail trains is too high compared with the same trains in our other tunnels of the network," Mr Mason told ABC Radio on Thursday.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The Greens say they are worried by an apparent lack of support for CountryLink rail services within the New South Wales Government.
Upper House MP Lee Rhiannon says the Government plans to reduce rail services further and replace them with coaches.
She says better timetabling and more services would improve rail usage.
Ms Rhiannon says the Government should be putting more resources into public transport for country people.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The Federal Government has formed a task force to develop a strategy to rebuild the grain transport network in New South Wales.
It is spending $3 million to set up the task force that includes industry and Government representatives.
The review will include an examination of cropping patterns, the likely impact of climate change on crops, market demand and the capacity of infrastructure to carry it.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
Logistics giant, the Toll Group, is planning to spend $18 million on an ammonium nitrate terminal on Newcastle's Kooragang Island.
It will handle goods for movement by rail, road and shipping.
Toll Properties says the inter-modal goods terminal would store and handle up to 6,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate at any one time, with most to be sold to the Hunter's mining sector.
Posted 10 years ago by bevans
The New South Wales Government is assessing plans for a $100 million rail project, aimed at easing bottlenecks on the Hunter Valley coal chain.
Australian Rail Track Corporation chief executive officer David Marchant says the Minimbah Third Track Project involves the construction of a third track on an 11 kilometre stretch of rail line near Singleton.
Posted 10 years ago by Grace
THE GPT Group has not justified its assertion that the rail line forms a barrier to Newcastle city centre's renewal, the Save Our Rail group says.
Save Our Rail has suggested its own proposal for more rail crossings and corridor improvements is a superior plan.
The group intends to make a submission to the Newcastle City Centre Taskforce, which will compile the city's case for Federal Government funding of some of its infrastructure needs.
The group would put forward a plan for the renewal of the CBD, which expands on a document it gave earlier this year to then Transport Minister John Watkins and Newcastle MP Jodi McKay.
Posted 10 years ago by Grace
RAIL maintenance reforms announced yesterday by the Premier, Nathan Rees, were conceived by the union movement to prevent the poorly performing RailCorp maintenance yards being sold to the private sector.
The deputy assistant secretary of Unions NSW, Matt Thistlethwaite, confirmed last night that rail unions had urged the Government to reopen negotiations over the future of the public maintenance yards that had been abandoned by frustrated RailCorp executives.
Posted 10 years ago by Grace
THE NSW Business Chamber has joined the chorus of voices calling for the withdrawal of the Newcastle rail line, yesterday labelling it an "immediate priority" for the region.
The group released its submission to Infrastructure Australia, ranking a number of projects it said needed to be built and one that needed to be ripped out.
In its most immediate category, for the next two to five years, it listed the construction of the F3 Freeway extension from Seahampton to Branxton, development of the Glendale interchange and withdrawal of the inner-city Newcastle rail back to a new terminus at Wickham.
It also said the Hunter would need the development of a rail freight bypass (Hexham to Fassifern) and completion of the Newcastle inner-city bypass.
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