The Albanese government’s controversial Newcastle-Sydney high-speed rail proposal has been added to Infrastructure Australia’s new list of national priority projects.

In this special issue, we focus on some of Australia’s biggest rail projects currently in the pipeline, as well as looking towards the sector’s future in the years to come. We catch up with the latest ...

The ARA found that Australia is often been than others at adopting major rail technologies in its passenger and freight networks. Credit: Adam.J.W.C. (via Wikimedia Commons). Australia boasts some of ...

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 ...

National railroad freight company Aurizon will slash 200 full time jobs in a dramatic cost-savings push. The cuts – first flagged in May – were confirmed on Monday morning by the company’s executive ...

The Pittsburg, Kansas-based company signed a contract with grain marketer and handler GrainCorp to operate its trains in the state of Queensland. An average of 2.8 million metric tons of grain is ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- BHP Billiton said the High Court of Australia has dismissed an appeal over access to rail access in Western Australia. The court ruled that access of a railway line by ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Alishan Forest Railway and Australia’s New South Wales Zig Zag Railway established sister ties on Tuesday at the Alishan Forest Railway’s Beimen Station. The partnership ...

A trip on the legendary Southern Aurora train was the travel step back in time I'd been waiting decades for. And it didn't disappoint. I made a number of trips to Central in those years, always waving ...