Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Rio Tinto completed its first iron ore delivery using a driverless train on July 10. The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator had granted approval on May 16, and full commercial operation is planned for late 2018.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
As multi-billion-dollar rail projects emerge across the country, there are fears the McGowan Government's transport masterplan Metronet may struggle to find the workers with the right skills to build it.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
The design for the McGowan Government’s first METRONET level crossing removal project, at Western Australia’s dangerous Denny Avenue in Kelmscott, has been revealed.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
Train nerds Warren Duffy, Brett Mohen and Brayden Hesford reminisced about rakes, conversed about carriages and gave us all the information we need to know to catch a steam train this weekend.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
Transport and infrastructure minister Michael McCormack will work with stakeholders over a proposed intermodal facility at Kalgoorlie, in south-central WA.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
It's understood the man claimed the dog was his therapy animal, and that the guards had queried its presence on the train.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
As stock feed and fodder supplies tighten along the eastern seaboard, one Parkes grain specialist has tapped into available reserves in Western Australia.
Geoff Brown, Buckwheat Enterprises Pty Ltd, is now railing lupins and field peas to Parkes at $70 a tonne freight charge.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
Premier Mark McGowan is confident Western Australia has the right skilled workers to deliver on the state's Metronet public transport masterplan, despite industry concerns about competition for talent from other industries and major interstate rail projects.
Posted 3 months ago by newsbot
Trains on the Joondalup and Mandurah lines are running again but not to the regular schedule.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
Rio Tinto has achieved a significant milestone with the first delivery of iron ore by an autonomous train in Pilbara, Western Australia. The self-driving freight train travelled over 280 kilometres from Rio Tinto’s mining operations in Tom Price to the port of Cape Lambert on 10 July. The company plans to start full operations of the autonomous journey by the end of 2018.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
Rio Tinto has completed the first delivery of iron ore by an autonomous train in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
Global mining conglomerate Rio Tinto marked the first delivery of iron ore by an autonomous train as part of its US$940 million AutoHaul program operating to its port facilities in Western Australia.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
Rio Tinto's chief executive says the miner is on a collision course with Apple and Google as they compete for a shrinking pool of technology workers, and if Australia doesn't ramp up its science skills Rio will have to look overseas for recruits.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
Five years ago, Metronet was the pipe dream of a West Australian Opposition keen to present itself as a visionary alternative government.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
The McGowan government has been criticised for ignoring security concerns by awarding a $136 million telecommunications contract to controversial Chinese telco giant Huawei.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
Worksafe WA has taken control of a construction area on the Forrestfield-Perth Airport rail link project where a worker was injured and knocked unconscious by a hose pipe.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
CHINESE telecommunications giant Huawei has been awarded a $136 million contract to build and maintain a 4G communications system for Perth’s rail network.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
JOONDALUP line trains are delayed due to a technical issue this morning.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
SOME comments have come regarding the possibility of transporting train-loads of hay for stock feed from Western Australia’s Ord River scheme to central NSW and Victoria.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
More than a billion dollars worth of work is about be put out to tender in WA, with the state government preparing to start work on two new rail lines.
Posted 4 months ago by bevans
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has defended his government’s dealings with controversial Chinese telco Huawei, which was barred from the National Broadband Network and is facing resistance in its push to supply equipment to Australia’s 5G wireless network.
Posted 4 months ago by bevans
South West MLC Diane Evers is urging the State Government to consider re-opening the Bunbury-Greenbushes rail line as the State prepares for an anticipated lithium boom.
Posted 4 months ago by newsbot
The board of mining giant BHP has approved the $4.49 billion development of its South Flank project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, with a targeted 80 million tonnes of annual production largely expected to replace output from the aging Yandi mine.
Posted 4 months ago by bevans
Mineral Resources Limited (ASX: MIN, MRL, the Company) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE: CLF, Cliffs) to acquire the assets that were used by its wholly owned subsidiary, Cliffs Asia Pacific Iron Ore Pty Ltd, to run its Koolyanobbing iron ore operation in the Yilgarn region of Western Australia.
Posted 4 months ago by bevans
A 20-kilometre stretch of the Kalgoorlie railway line may be uprooted in order to make room for an expansion of the Super Pit mine.
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