Bardy Bigglesworth - VibeWire Magazine

Truck-busting, job-boosting freight hub for west at risk from rail line closure

Freight trains from Ballarat will be forced to travel an extra 47 kilometres via Geelong to get to the Port of Melbourne.

The tunnelling contracts for SRL East have already been let.

Train drivers were stranded in Melbourne’s new Metro Tunnel for almost five hours when a systems fault brought trains to a standstill.

PATRONAGE on the Ararat passenger railway line has increased dramatically.

Inland Rail has completed all scheduled works during the 60-hour track possession on the Beveridge to Albury section of the project.

This site through its contributors has for some time now provided a blow by blow assessment of V/Line.

The Border Rail Action Group has called for the introduction of extra carriages on north-east line trains.

Surprising is the small customer service window that will become quite the issue.

Beveridge, at the northern edge of Melbourne’s growth boundary, is set to boom.

But efforts to boost rail freight have so far been fruitless. The 20-year, $183 million Port Rail Shuttle project has yet to move a single container.