An electrical fire in a signal cabinet has damaged signalling to the south of Newmarket on the Auckland metro network at just after 5am on Monday morning.
The fire was sparked in a passenger train signalling
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155 light rail services will be added in Canberra due to unexpected demand
ACT Minister for Transport Chris Steel said Canberra’s light rail is exceeding the government’s expectations and is ahead of boarding targets by one year.
The ACT government will add extra services,
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Complete shutdown for major maintenance on Hunter rail network
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) will commence a three-day shutdown to conduct over 120 maintenance works from Tuesday 11 February.
Maintenance shutdown will affect the Hunter Valley Network
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Construction progresses at Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project’s new State Library station
Melbourne’s State Library station will be 240m long and 30m wide, and its 19m platforms will be some of the widest underground metro platforms in the world.
The first permanent building works for
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NZ City Rail Link commences next stage of construction
Building works have started on the Aotea underground station in central Auckland part of New Zealand’s City Rail Link (CRL).
Dale Burtenshaw, deputy project director for the Link Alliance consortium
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Free Tram Zone distracting from network improvements: PTUA
Members of Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) are calling for the Free Tram Zone in Melbourne to be abolished.
The PTUA said in a statement that they do not support the Free Tram Zone due to overcrowding
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Transperth reduces speed of trains due to extreme heat
The temperature reached a top of 43 degrees in Perth on Tuesday, February 4 and train speeds were reduced to prevent distortion of steel tracks.
Transperth said in a social media post on Tuesday that “due
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Inland Rail grants $4000 to a men’s cultural group in QLD
Over $55,000 in community donations from Inland Rail will be granted to groups across the whole rail corridor in regional Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
The Maibin Jaihilah Yahgilah men’s
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Hundreds of millions of dollars being invested in New Zealand’s KiwiRail network
The New Zealand Government has announced a further $109.7 million rail investment in Northland rail freight on the KiwiRail network.
This follows the injection of $211 million to upgrade Wellington networks
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Auckland metro rail seeking new operations contractor following network boom
As Transdev Auckland’s contract to provide metro rail services comes to an end, Auckland Transport (AT) is seeking industry participants to operate the city’s metro rail passenger network from
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