A group of dedicated volunteers say they have built "Australia's biggest" miniature railway in regional Victoria and after a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Alishan Forestry Railway and Australia’s Zig Zag Railway yesterday signed a sisterhood pact to facilitate the maintenance ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Australian rail haulage group Aurizon on Tuesday warned a smaller-than-expected government cap on revenue of A$4.02 billion ($3.50 billion) it can generate from its key ...

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 ...