Posted 14 years ago by DavidB
Alexandrina Council Mayor Kym McHugh joined 150th Anniversary of Australia's First Public Railway Celebration organisers in thanking the volunteers for making the celebration such a success at a morning tea at Signal Point on Tuesday morning.
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CountryLink's Murwillumbah to Sydney XPT train service will run to a new timetable from this week, and Gloucester will be a "stop on request" for the first time.
Posted 14 years ago by DavidB
Leading agribusiness group GrainCorp has joined the industry chorus urging the Victorian Government to buy back the state's rail network.
Posted 14 years ago by DavidB
THE campaign to save South Coast rail services went full steam ahead at a protest rally yesterday morning, on the same day the State Government announced that from July, no trains would run to or from the Shoalhaven after 9pm.
Posted 14 years ago by DavidB
About every 10 minutes each day, a truck carrying pine woodchips travels along the coastal road from Mount Gambier in South Australia to the Port of Portland in Victoria.
Posted 14 years ago by DavidB
Shifting Dubbo's rail-freight interchange out of town has been trundling past different government departments for almost a decade.
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The Auditor General has severely criticised the Bracks government's poor management of the Ararat passenger rail project.
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A Victorian Rail Authority has made upgrading a notorious rail crossing in the Goulburn Valley its top priority after yesterday's accident involving a car colliding with a train.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
AN Australian firm is attracting interest from rail companies here and overseas with a software project that may help trains run on time.
Researchers at the Co-operative Research Centre for Railway Engineering and Technologies (Rail CRC) — set up in 2001 and funded by the federal Government, the Australian rail industry and six universities — are working on a bundle of real-time train scheduling and optimisation tools.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
High-speed trains could be banned from travelling more than 120kmh after the Government admitted yesterday it could not fix the state's most dangerous railway level crossings.
Posted 14 years ago by DavidB
Byron Bay's Railway Friendly Bar will keep rocking, but when the last train leaves the platform tomorrow night the town's railway service will stop rolling. The bar of the Railway Friendly in Byron backs on to the tracks of the Casino-Murwillumbah branch line, which carried its first train 110 years ago.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
VICTORIA'S country rail services were disrupted this morning after a snap strike by train shunters.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
THREE men were taken to hospital after a collision between a road train and an empty freight train, which partially derailed, near the Queensland border town of Goondiwindi today.
Two train drivers and the truck driver were taken to Goondiwindi Hospital after the accident at a level crossing on the Cunningway Way, 2km north-east of Goondiwindi at 11.15am (AEST), Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS) area director Mike Flanigan said.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
New South Wales Transport Minister Michael Costa has said train services on the Casino to Murwillumbah lines will not be restored.
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This is the first glimpse of the sleek, high-tech V'Locity trains that will travel at speeds of up to 160kmh under the Fast Rail project. Transport Minister Peter Batchelor yesterday inspected progress on the construction of the 38 two-carriage trains at Bombardier Transportation's Dandenong plant.
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Geelong's new fast trains were on time and on budget, State Transport Minister Peter Batchelor said yesterday. At a special progress review of the Regional Fast Rail Project at the Dandenong factory where the new trains are being built, Mr Batchelor said the project was on schedule.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
Transport authorities admit it will take more than a decade to fix the 400 most dangerous level crossings in NSW, despite recent increases in funding.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
There is still no timeline on when the fast train service between Bendigo and Melbourne will be fully operational.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
A rail group has claimed an auditor-general's report into the Ararat rail line spending blow out could lead to further delays in the return of north-western Victorian rail services.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
A fold-out map spread out on her lap, Alison Wooden traces the last seconds of her son's life. Here is the train, 17.6 seconds before it crashes into the car in which Kyle was travelling, she says, pointing to a bullet-shaped mark on the far right of the map. Here is the car, she says, sweeping her finger to a much smaller spot halfway across the map.
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The Goolwa, Port Elliot and Middleton communities will come together this weekend to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Australia's First Public Railway.
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Transport Minister Peter Batchelor is still refusing to say when passenger train services will resume between Ballarat and Ararat, in the wake of an Auditor-General's report outlining a cost blowout.
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A final effort will be made today to save rail services on the Casino to Murwillumbah line on the northern New South Wales north coast. Local mayors from the region will take their protest to State Parliament.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
RECENT vandalism directed at the Busselton Jetty's train service has raised fears by Busselton Jetty Management Committee executive Len Boyling that unless the culprit is caught someone could get hurt.
Mr Boyling said that the jetty had experienced ongoing vandalism for the past 18 months but a recent spate of damage to the train system was a deliberate attempt to sabotage its operations.
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There has been a call for the Victorian Government to use the Freight Australia sale to promote competition on the State's rail network.
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