Posted 2 days ago by bevans
The announcement the Australian Government will allocate $8.4 billion in the 2017-18 Federal Budget to Inland Rail has ended the speculation, according to Parkes Shire Council’s general manager Kent Boyd.
Posted 2 days ago by bevans
AN ALTERNATIVE inland rail route through Shepparton was considered but rejected early on because the costs did not stack up.
Posted 4 days ago by bevans
The nation's top infrastructure chief has admitted the Commonwealth's $10 billion rail-building plan - which is money that will need to be borrowed - will mainly be handed to states as cash grants, undermining the Turnbull government's strategy of avoiding "bad debt" that threatens the AAA rating.
Posted 4 days ago by bevans
The final cost for the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail project could rise above the original $10 billion price tag, a Senate Estimates hearing was told on Monday.
Posted 4 days ago by bevans
Australians just have to look at the booming Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in America to see what a major railway connection can do for regional towns, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says.
Posted 5 days ago by bevans
Private investors would be unlikely to fund the federal government’s proposed $8.3 billion inland rail project because it would not meet normal commercial benchmarks, the Department of Infrastructure has admitted.
Posted 5 days ago by bevans
NOISE pollution generated by up to 50 freight trains hauling goods from Melbourne to Brisbane along the Inland Rail route from Gowrie to Calvert yesterday emerged as one of the main concerns from residents.
Posted 6 days ago by bevans
Property owners along the proposed Inland Rail Link between Stockinbingal and Illabo have lashed back at suggestions construction will begin before 2018.
Posted one week ago by bevans
The federal government's $10 billion Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail project would be less attractive to future buyers if the Australian Rail Track Corporation did not extend the rail link to the Port of Brisbane, according to infrastructure experts.
Posted one week ago by x31
The federal government’s Inland Rail project could benefit BlueScope, according to NSW Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
The $8 billion inland rail project is expected to create 16,000 jobs over the next eight years and environmental scientists may be the first in line.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
16,000 workers may be needed during the construction phase of the inland railway.
Posted one week ago by bevans
The inland freight line has a fatal flaw: it stops 20kilometres short of Brisbane's port ("The train that will arrive in a century", May15).
Posted one week ago by newsbot
The Inland Rail project has been hailed as the “jewel in the crown” in the Federal Budget and welcomed across the farming, business and local government sectors.
Posted one week ago by bevans
THEY'VE done it again. Under the flag of political expediency, the Federal Government has slammed a fistful of dollars on the table to get the bush on side in a budget that does very little to appease any of the main regional production sectors of this country.
Posted one week ago by newsbot
IT TOOK him 21 years, but Aspley’s Everald Compton is still pleased as punch that his marathon effort to build an inland rail line connecting Brisbane to Melbourne will become a reality.
Posted one week ago by newsbot
THE $8.4 billion Budget allocation for a long-awaited Inland Rail link does not include the cost of connecting it to the Port of Brisbane.
Posted 2 weeks ago by x31
Community leaders and freight operators have urged the Federal Government to continue to consider a route passing through Shepparton for the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail link.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Rural groups welcome inland rail as nation building but wait to see details of route and timing.
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
Major track work is needed in the heart of Wagga to allow the federal government’s inland rail line to go ahead.
Posted 2 weeks ago by x31
The Elvis Express famously delivers hundreds of Presley impersonators to Parkes every year but within a decade it'll be freight trains shaking up the NSW town.
Parkes - which is 365 kilometres west of Sydney and home to the annual Elvis Festival - is to become a freight hub at the intersection of two transcontinental railways.
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
The $10 billion inland rail project from Melbourne to Brisbane is set to begin construction within months despite concerns the project could pose a significant financial risk to federal taxpayers.
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