UGL Transport has renewed its One Rail Australia maintenance agreement for five years, with options to extend, and will keep maintaining and overhauling most of the freight operator's locomotive fleet.
If Western Australia's freight rail buyback proceeds, state ownership would be short-term before a reorganisation that may use corridor land rights of up to 99 years, the transport minister says.
The Southwest Metro opening in Sydney still has no confirmed date and awaits formal regulatory accreditation, with more than 5,800 of 9,000 required testing hours logged by 1 September.
JR East has scheduled a trial of mobile trash bin robots in Shinjuku Station's ticket-gate concourse until November 20 to test whether roaming bins can make station cleaning more efficient.
BEML has won a bullet train order worth over ₹5,400 crore from National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited to deliver and maintain high-speed rolling stock for the Mumbai–Ahmedabad corridor.
Queensland Rail services will return to 91% of the full South East Queensland timetable from October 12 after in-principle deals on the operator’s last three enterprise agreements.
Indian Railways has approved two Maharashtra rail projects worth ₹990 crore, doubling the Chouk-Karjat section and building a 38.21 km line serving coal and cement sites in Yavatmal and Chandrapur.
Alstom has profiled Irtiza Amjad, a material planner at Ballarat and Newport keeping the X'Trapolis 2.0 supply chain moving for trains built with at least 60 per cent local content.
Released on 16 September, the Victorian Rail Freight Plan 2026-2036 calls for a 10-year maintenance and upgrade plan to bring regional lines to a minimum 21-tonne axle load (TAL).
Inland Rail has removed Broadford’s Marchbanks Road bridge, the ninth and final old bridge demolished between Beveridge and Albury, leaving Tallarook as the only site still needing double-stack clearance.
In Australia, the TRACK rail freight incentive opened on 11 September, offering up to A$26 million as operators propose the subsidy they seek per additional loaded TEU.
In Australia, the government announced two High Speed Rail Authority board appointments on 10 September, filling vacant member roles with Professor Eva Hanly and Christopher Rayner.
