Australia has one of the fastest rates of population growth in the developed world. In Australia, the estimated residential population has soared by more than 380,000 in the past 12 months, according ...

The pressure to move Inland Rail forward increased after the Australian railway network received little financial backing in this year’s Federal Budget, with most funds directed to road infrastructure ...

Progress Rail has signed an agreement to acquire Downer EDI’s freight rail business, Downer Freight Rail, an Australian railcar company. Headquartered in North Ryde and with 15 maintenance facilities ...

Alison Ribbon reported that the strike was apparently unplanned and dubbed a "wildcat strike" by the railway union. Safety issues surrounding Pacific National have been in the headlines recently, with ...

Crossing the harsh terrain of the Australian outback, the Ghan, a luxury train, and its 3,000 kms of track need constant and skilled maintenance. Epic Train Journeys is available to stream on pbs.org ...

Philip Laird owns shares in some transport companies and has received funding from the two rail-related CRCs as well as the ARC. He is affiliated, inter alia, with the Chartered Institute of Logistics ...

An initial railway study has been completed to underpin an integrated logistics solution for Brockman’s 20-million-tonne-a-year Marillana project, in the East Pilbara. The independent railway is one ...

Loram Pty Ltd., the wholly owned Australian subsidiary of Loram Maintenance of Way, Inc., has executed a binding agreement to acquire all the assets of the rail grinding business of Aurizon Operations ...

In 2010, Philip Laird completed a project for the CRC for Rail Innovation on High Speed Rail. This project was supported by a modest grant. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. The ...

MELBOURNE, Nov 5 (Reuters) - BHP Billiton said it had suspended all its iron ore rail operations in Western Australia on Monday after a train ran away at high speed for nearly 100 kilometres before ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's state-owned railway manufacturing company, INKA, has delivered three units of locomotive ...