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The Nationals Member for Myall Lakes, John Turner, said the proposed rearrangement of timetabling for the Countrylink train service out of Taree south in the dead of night is the backdoor way of cancelling services.
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Member for Albury, Mr Greg Aplin and Member for Wagga Wagga, Mr Daryl Maguire, are calling on the community to get behind them to retain local CountryLink rail services.
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Moves to stop the New South Wales north coast rail line from being dismantled have turned to the courts, with Lismore City Council investigating its legal options.
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Queensland Rail has won a lucrative contract to build the longest train line in the state since 1983.
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In what must be an historical day in NSW politics the NSW Greens and the NSW Farmers Association have joined forces to campaign against the Carr Labor Government.
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West Coast Railway says it is likely it will continue to run passenger services to Warrnambool, after its contract runs out next month West Coast director Don Gibson says it looks like the current contract will be extended, but the company will hand the service back to the Government sometime before 2006.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) has vowed to stage a campaign to lobby the New South Wales Government to reconsider cancelling the third stage of the Millennium trains contract.
Posted 14 years ago by Loco
At least one person has been killed and a number of people trapped after a train derailment in north-western New South Wales earlier tonight.
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The makers of the dumped Millennium trains would be allowed to bid to provide their substitute, NSW Premier Bob Carr said.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
By STAVRO SOFIOS and MATT SUN
May 4, 2004
SYDNEY'S fault-riddled Millennium train was officially declared a lemon yesterday – after barely 15 months on the tracks.
The State Government axed its contract to buy any more of the trains after manufacturer EDI tried to get an extra $22.6 million out of taxpayers.
However taxpayers should not feel pleased – $658 million was spent on the Millennium – $100 million more than the public was first told.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
Tuesday, May 4
DANIEL FOGARTY
THE State Opposition is demanding to know why the Government is yet to renew a contract with Geelong's West Coast Railway for the Warrnambool train service.
Shadow Transport spokesman Terry Mulder said the Government had been negotiating the contract since November 2002 and questioned why it had taken so long.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
The mysterious death of an elderly woman passenger who fell from the Indian Pacific train has sparked two separate inquiries into the tragedy.
Safety procedures are meant to prevent passengers from opening the carriage doors during a journey.
The woman disappeared from a Perth-bound train on Friday after it crossed into WA.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
NSW TRAINS authority RailCorp has sent in software engineers to find the source of the outage that left up to 300,000 commuters stranded yesterday, saying the new Sasser worm, which has already spawned two variants, is being evaluated as a possible cause.
A RailCorp spokesman confirmed that software engineers were investigating the problem, which prevented drivers from talking to signal boxes. A virus attack was one possibility being investigated, he said. RailCorp was unable to confirm when the investigation would be complete.
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Sydney train travellers were delayed by up to 40 minutes across the metropolitan network today because of a cracked rail.
Posted 14 years ago by witsend
RAILCORP would not go ahead with the third tranche of the troubled Millennium trains, the New South Wales Government said today.
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They're strange bedfellows but the Greens and farming groups are content to cosy up on opposing rail branch line closure. The rural hamlet of Greenthorpe played host to NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon and the NSW Farmers' Association this week as they bonded over branch lines.
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Tens of thousands of Sydney commuters were delayed or stranded yesterday when most services ground to a halt after the rail network's communication system failed. Crowds choked platforms with passengers left to endure lengthy delays, even after RailCorp said it had fixed the problem.
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Trains across the Sydney metropolitan area are beginning to return to normal after most services were brought to a standstill following a malfunction within the rail network's communication system.
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A passenger train has arrived in Stratford in Victoria's Gippsland, for the first time in almost 11 years.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
The new state-of-the-art, high speed Prospector train will come into service on June 28, Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan announced today.
Bookings for the new Perth-to-Kalgoorlie train open on Monday, May 17.
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A SYDNEY train driver has been removed from duty for allegedly testing positive for alcohol after a rail crash today.
Posted 14 years ago by SEMartin
The first northbound Interail train between Melbourne and Brisbane is due into Acacia Ridge at 9pm tonight. The first southbound train ran on Wednesday 28 April.
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Countrylink's rail services in the Hunter will undergo a review over the next eight weeks.
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VICTORIA'S roads will be the big winners in next month's state and federal budgets.
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Shortages in the amount of train drivers needed to properly run Sydney's rail network will plague the system for another two years, it was reported.
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