Railway Digest

24/12/2025

🎄⛄We wish all of our readers Season Greetings!🎁🎅
Many thanks for all your readership and submissions in 2025. We are really looking forward to 2026 and all the rail content that we can report on and publish!
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🚆CAPTION: A trailing view of a diverted Sydney-bound Indian Pacific passing through a festively decorated Bowning Station at sunrise, 3 April 2019 (with the help of AI). Phil Martin, ARHS Archives 1620579. See the May 2020 issue, page 39 for the original image.

18/12/2025

Metropolis trains for Melbourne too!

18/12/2025

John Holland is part of another city shaping project in Melbourne!

We’re part of another city-shaping rail project for Melbourne! 🚆

We’re thrilled to announce our Linewide Alliance – a team made up of John Holland, KBR, WSP, Alstom and RATP Dev - has been selected to deliver the transformative Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East Linewide package.

With a proven track record in delivering complex line-wide rail systems, including Sydney Metro Northwest in 2019 and the Metro Tunnel in Melbourne, we’re ready to help deliver this transformative project for Victoria.

This fully tunnelled 26-kilometre twin tunnel metro line will connect Cheltenham in the south to Box Hill in the north, with six new stations transforming how Melburnians travel.

Over the next 10 years, we’ll deliver tunnel fitout works, traction power, communications systems, network control and signalling, rolling stock, depot and maintenance facilities and the overall system integration.

And from 2035 to 2050, we’ll operate and maintain the new metro line with RATP Dev as part of a 15-year franchise.

The SRL East will include six stations, including key interchanges with existing stations at Cheltenham, Clayton, Glen Waverley, and Box Hill, plus brand-new stations at Monash and Burwood.

We’re proud to partner with the Victorian Government on this landmark project, and to continue delivering world-class rail and transport solutions across Australia.

27/11/2025

😭🚂Sadly today is the last day of Ausrail Plus 2025, 🚆🛤
The largest rail event in the Asia-Pacific Region at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. We have met so many great rail industry players, suppliers and attended some insightful forums.
If you are lucky enough to come along today make sure you come and say hello to us at Stall 7 before the convention closes at 3pm.

17/11/2025

Earlier this month ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr touted the possibility of reducing the train trip between Sydney and Canberra to around three hours. Listen to the press conference here:

ANDREW LEIGH, MEMBER FOR FENNER: Thanks very much for coming along this morning.

17/11/2025

The preliminary program for Heavy Haul Rail 2026 has landed:

Driving the Next Era of Heavy Haul Rail

28/10/2025

The party kicks off this weekend at Gunning, NSW, marking 150 years since the extension of the Main South Railway Line from Goulburn to Gunning, which officially opened in 1875. Make a weekend of it! It's great to see Frank Johnson profiled here. Frank contributes an article to the very special GUNNING 150 Nov issue of RD's sister publication Australian Railway History.

Early next month, Engineers Australia will mark one of the nation’s historic rail achievements: the 150th anniversary of the extension…

27/10/2025

Only a few days till the November RD hits newsstands. Don't miss a bumper issue covering the 2025 Rail Industry Awards, plus an exclusive report from Railway 200, an interview with Transport's Louis Wong about rolling out the ETCS L2, and a feature on the six (!) new bridges being added to Adelaide's Glenelg Line.

27/10/2025

Want to tour the Metro Tunnel Project? AusRAIL has added another site tour but places are limited. Attendees can book here:

We are pleased to announce seven opportunities for pre-conference site tours on Tuesday 25 November 2025 for registered delegates. Spaces are limited so early

27/10/2025

Siemens Mobility to supply ETCS L2 digital signalling technology on Sydney’s North Shore Line:

Be future ready with a portfolio of proven solutions from the ETCS pioneers.

03/10/2025

🚈THE OCTOBER RAILWAY DIGEST ISSUE OUT NOW IN DIGITAL AND PRINT🚈
ONRSR Chief Executive Dr. Natalie Pelham
With Rail Safety Week 2025 in the books, the chief safety regulator talks to RD about her journey in the rail industry and the challenges facing the sector, from the rise of new technology to the age-old question of how best to manage risk management at level crossings. Plus: is there an opportunity for rail as the sustainable option amidst the climate crisis?

All this and more in our OCTOBER issue!
Grab your copy now!
Print and digital formats available. Order at:
https://arhsnsw.com.au/railway-digest/

03/10/2025

The ATSB has published a preliminary report into the derailment of a six-car Metro Trains Melbourne passenger train, which occurred in Clifton Hill in Melbourne’s north-east on 13 July 2025.

The ATSB has published a preliminary report into the derailment of a six-car Metro Trains Melbourne passenger train, which occurred in Clifton Hill in Melbou...