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New, updated and featured
sites of the Month
What's new at Railpage?
New! Just
letting you know that there is a public meeting on Wednesday night in
Melbourne, looking at how to use the forthcoming State election to change
transport policy in favour of better public transport.
When: Wed 28 August, 7:45 pm Where: Australian Volunteers International
hall, 78 Kerr St Fitzroy (near Brunswick St, next to The Fitz) Speakers:
Paul Mees, Public Transport First Linda Parlane, Friends of Merri Creek,
Mike Cebon, Melb Uni Environment Officer. The
meeting is being coordinated by Public Transport First. For details see
<http://www.ptfirst.org>.
New! The
Rail Appreciation Association Victoria is conducting a farewell "tour"
to General Motors
railway station on Friday 26th July 2002
New! Railpage
Australia would like to welcome the Perth
Electric Tramway Society. For much of the twentieth century, people
travelled around Australian cities by electric tram or trolley-bus. In
Western Australia, trams ran in Perth (1899 - 1958), Kalgoorlie (1902
- 1952), Fremantle (1905 - 1952), and briefly in Leonora.
Updated!
South Gippsland Railway has an
updated website with lots of new and interesting information.
Updated!
Brian Evans has posted some pictures and video from a Broken
Hill and Silverton trip earlier this year. Also available are a number
of new shots and video from Daylesford
and Bullarto in Victoria.
Coming! Railpage
announces its test centrol feed from Melbourne. Listen to Victorian central
train control "LIVE" includes ARTC train control.
New! Railpage
welcomes the Unofficial Metcard Website. Basically,
from 1977 a range of developments began to occur with Government operated,
urban public transport ticketing methods around Australia. These ranged
from the adoption of magnetic strip tickets and vending machines or validating
machines through to full automatic fare collection. In most cases a specific
means was developed for a particular mode. Melbourne was the last city
to seriously join this trend, but all indications prior were that whatever
course it took, the system would be common to and adopted for all metropolitan
services. Melbourne had, however, been the clear Australian leader since
1981 in offering a unified ticketing system between all modes, both government
AND private, with the three zone "Travelcard". This was further
developed in 1983 with the complicated "Neighbourhood" fare
system, returning once more to a simplified zonal arrangement in 1989.
It was this latter fare structure that Metcard was placed over.
New! Australian
Society of Section Car Operators is now available on Railpage. Our
focus is on the railway systems of South Australia, where there is the
now fortunate position of three separate gauges of railway line within
a matter of a days drive, although in the longer term, it is the groups'
intention to broaden its operations to other states and territories, as
interest, its resources and skills as an operator expand.
New! Australian
Railmaps comes to Railpage. On this site you will find a number of
pages - each containing a diagrammatic map of one part of Australia. These
maps show EVERY passenger railway and EVERY station served by passenger
trains. All metropolitan services including light rail, as well as all
country and interstate services are covered. The maps indicate the routes
taken as well as the journey times and service frequency (number of trains
per hour, per day or per week as the case may be). Many ferry services
are included as well as some airport connection road bus routes where
no rail service is provided. Also included are the growing number of passenger
carrying tourist railways. Links to sites covering rail-related museums
and 'train-ride' attractions are also provided.
New! Railpage
welcomes the Council of Historic Railways
and Tramways of South Australia
Updated!
John Clevedon's Locopage
has been updated. Locopage is a Web site dedicated to Australian diesel
and electric locomotives, and is the most comprehensive site on such locomotives.
Locopage provides photographs and tech specs for nearly every class of
diesel and electric loco in mainland Australia. As well, information on
individual locos is included, as well as extensive lists of builders numbers.
New! Rail3d
in Australia
New! Australian
railway slang
New! Darjeeling
Himalayan Railway Society (Australia) - In 1994, when it became apparent
that the DHR could close in the near future, a member of an old Darjeeling
family, long resident in Canada, with a deep commitment to preserving
the best of the past, formed the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Heritage
Foundation (DHRHF). Its aims include restoration and preservation of the
line, creation of a mountain railway museum, and provision of improved
services both to the local population and visiting tourists.
New! South
Western Railway Society - The South Western Railway Society, is a
non-profit organization involved in maintaining Railway Operations in
The South Western area of Victoria. We operate various Special trains
around Victoria and Southern NSW, and are available to assist other parties
in railway operations.
New! A
ride on the Central Highlands Tourist Railway
On the 4th of June 2000, Brian Evans snapped some shots of the Daylesford
and Bullarto area. Note the work that has been completed by the very dedicated
voluteers with the tourist railway service. Bullarto Railway Station looks
spectacular during June. All images are (C)opyright 2000, Brian Evans
New! National
Railway Museum - Port Adelaide (formerly Port Dock Station Railway
Museum)
Take a trip into railway history at Australia's top railway attraction.
Port Dock Station Railway Museum, managed by a voluntary association,
houses the largest undercover collection of locomotives, passenger carriages
and freight vehicles in Australia.
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Australian News Stories
18/6/02 - Connex Trains
Collide at Epping
Two Connex trains have collided approx. 1 km south of Epping railway station
in Melbourne's northern suburbs.
18/6/02 - Five
year deal puts rice on rails
Leading regional rail specialist Freight Australia and one of the country's
largest food producers and exporters, SunRice, have signed a landmark
new five-year contract
16/6/02
- Rail delivers the goods
Freight carried over the interstate rail network in Victoria, South Australia
and into Western Australia reached a new high during May and continues
to rise at a rate outstripping national economic growth.
07/05/02 -
ACCC approves of ARTC rail access undertaking
Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd (ARTC) has welcomed today's
announcement by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
that the voluntary Access Undertaking it has given, for that part of the
interstate rail network under its control, has been approved.
11/3/02 - Alice Darwin on
the road
As an update to the 9 March media Release the following information is
now to hand. Katherine, the first locomotive for use on Alice Springs
to Darwin Railway construction trains was successfully loaded onto its
road transport at Roe Creek,
south of Alice Springs, this afternoon, with the NT Chief Minister Claire
Martin in attendance
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