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

AUSTRALIA: Italian railway construction company Salcef has agreed to acquire Pilbara Rail Maintenance, aiming to combine its ...

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

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 ...

KARRATHA, Australia-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto’s first Pilbara-made iron ore rail car has rolled off the production line in Karratha, as part of a A$150 million partnership with Australian rail ...

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 ...

ADELAIDE, Australia -- Australia reached a major milestone in travel recently with the start of regular passenger service on an extended rail line connecting Adelaide in South Australia to Darwin at ...

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 ...

CANBERRA, Australia—The Australian government has moved closer to selling the national rail network, which could if agreed add to a wave of privatizations of properties from ports to power assets that ...