Sixty-five thousand truck movements through Fremantle have been averted thanks to new rail facilities and a strategy to encourage the use of rail to transport sea freight containers
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Surat Basin Rail Joint Venture announces new CEO
Surat Basin Rail Joint Venture chairman Everald Compton today announced the appointment of experienced national utility infrastructure executive Mr Graham Dooley, as the joint venture
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Asciano: heads I win, tails you lose
After threatening to withdraw from Victorian and NSW grain rail transport and taking the ball with it, Asciano (Pacific National) has signed a grain haulage contract with GrainCorp on which it cannot lose.
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Toll gets out of jail in NZ with $200m
Toll Holdings managed to get out of its rail obligations in New Zealand that were going to cost it $200 million, and managed to make a tidy profit in the process.
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Communication breakdown led to crash
The ATSB has found that a collision between a GrainCorp freight train and overturned truck occurred because train control could not contact the approaching train in the ten minutes or so before the collision.
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Queensland Rail not for sale
Queensland Transport Minister John Mickel has decided not to privatise Queensland Rail but has foreshadowed job losses whilst it is restructured.
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Adelaide Hills rail network study promised
The Mayor of Mitcham, Ivan Brooks, says he believes a study into the Adelaide Hills rail network would find that a bypass route is needed for freight trains, reports the ABC.
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