Posted 2 months ago by bevans
A YOUNG man was so drunk he couldn’t remember abusing transit officers at Joondalup train station until he was shown CCTV footage of the incident.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
Cleveland Cliffs has flagged that it plans to close its iron ore operations near Southern Cross by the end of the year, raising questions over hundreds of jobs on the mines and at the Port of Esperance.
Posted 2 months ago by Bethungra
Mining giant Rio Tinto has stripped US-based contracting giant Fluor of a big slice of its long-running, multimillion-dollar rail maintenance contract in the Pilbara, leaving hundreds of jobs under a cloud.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
The Public Transport Authority (PTA) said the driver of a ute that crashed into train tracks in Perth's northern suburbs, stranding peak hour passengers, could be up for the costs of repairs that may run into tens of thousand of dollars.
Posted 4 months ago by bevans
TRESPASSING on Perth train lines has almost doubled this year, statistics released yesterday by the Public Transport Authority reveal.
Posted 4 months ago by Railpage System User
A full-scale simulation of the transport system will take place today to iron out any kinks ahead of the Perth Stadium opening, with cancelled train services at McIver and Claisebrook stations set to become a weekly occurrence come the start of the 2018 AFL season.
Posted 4 months ago by VicRailNews
A State Agreement to pave the way for the Balla Balla rail has passed through Parliament with almost unanimous support.
Posted 4 months ago by bevans
GLOBAL mining company Rio Tinto provided updates on progress with its AutoHaul driverless train project and plans for upcoming capital expenditure on its heavy-haul iron-ore rail network in the Pilbara region at an investor seminar in Sydney on December 4.
Posted 4 months ago by bevans
An independent arbitrator could call an end to a two-year deadlock between Arc Infrastructure and CBH by the middle of next year.
Posted 4 months ago by bevans
Passengers were stuck on a long-haul luxury train for more than 12 hours in Perth last night after a minor derailment of one of its carriages just 12 minutes into a four-day journey to Sydney.
Posted 4 months ago by VicRailNews
Bunbury MLA Don Punch officially opened Qube’s new mineral sands facility in Picton on Thursday.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
A bid to build a rail line to Augusta has been raised in State Parliament thanks to a South West high school student.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
The future of a proposed rail and port development at Balla Balla is looking brighter after an agreement which could also spur development of a new mine in the Pilbara.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union WA state secretary Steve McCartney said mining companies choosing to "save a buck" by importing rail carriages and parts from overseas were putting workers at risk.
Posted 5 months ago by VicRailNews
A Bill for developing the railway line for the planned Balla Balla infrastructure project is progressing through WA Parliament.
Posted 5 months ago by x31
Whilst only a relatively small country passenger rail operation compared to the likes of NSW and Victoria, the WAGR nonetheless had very comfortable country passenger trains that featured either buffet-lounge cars or full dining cars.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
THE Turnbull Government is working on a multi-billion-dollar road and rail funding blitz for WA, targeting key marginal seats as part of its bid to cling to power.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
A long-planned tourist railway connecting downtown Boulder to the Super Pit lookout has been put on ice after the Golden Mile Loopline Railway Society handed $3.3 million of promised funding back to the State Government.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
A rail manufacturing hub located in Bunbury would create “hundreds” of jobs and have an economic flow-on effect into the future, according to Australian Manufacturing Workers Union State secretary Steve McCartney.
Posted 5 months ago by Railpage System User
One hundred years since the first passenger train travelled across Australia, historians, train buffs and outback leaders gather to celebrate.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
Plans for the new Ellenbrook rail line are moving ahead, with a multi-million dollar contract about to be awarded.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
A 23-year-old Perth man who clung to a windscreen wiper on the back of a moving train that reached speeds of up to 110 kilometres per hour has been fined $1,000.
Posted 5 months ago by bevans
They are the spine on which a significant portion of the world’s seaborne iron trade is channelled to the huge and lucrative markets of China, Japan and South Korea.
Posted 6 months ago by bevans
It's a million-tonne headache for a $2 billion project: a giant pile of soil contaminated with toxic fire-fighting chemicals the WA Government doesn't know what to do with.
Posted 6 months ago by bevans
Eleven rail workers were taken to hospital for assessment and observation after their Arc Infrastructure (formerly Brookfield Rail) crew was impacted by a lightning strike while working near Kookynie, south of Leonora, on Saturday.
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