When Greg Stewart finished building three working rail bugs, he could not quite believe he had managed it. "I am sort of amazed ... I never really knew if it was going to work," he said. "I'm an old ...
Two Harsco Rail heavy-duty track surfacing machines—a Mark VI Production/Switch Tamper and a Ballast Regulator—are on their way to Launceston, in the Australian island state of Tasmania, for ...
The operator of the historic Ida Bay Railway in Tasmania's far south says she will be forced to walk away unless she can get funding to help upgrade the state-owned track. Meg Thornton leased the ...
The Australian and Tasmanian Governments have jointly awarded the single largest tender of the A$119.6m ($85m) Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation Project to VEC Civil Engineering for track works on ...
TasRail’s Western line in north-west Tasmania has been closed after ten wagons came off the tracks following a freight train derailment near Kimberley, Northern Cape Province of South Africa. A total ...
As a young boy in Bellerive he remembers a fascination with the steam ferry across the Derwent. “Dad used to always get me interested in things that were run by steam,” Mr Coen said. This fascination ...
Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. The West Coast Wilderness Railway at Strahan has been closed for three months. Rail, Tram and Bus Union ...
Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. As a young boy in Bellerive he remembers a fascination with the steam ferry across the Derwent. “Dad used ...