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The wiring incident triggered a power outage that brought the network to a standstill.

Major shake-up for Sydney Trains after wiring failure plunged network into chaos

The city’s rail network was crippled by rolling delays and cancellations after a single train became entangled in overhead lines at Homebush last month.

  • Megan Gorrey

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Disrepair at stations on Sydney’s city metro line.

How are Sydney’s ‘brand-new, shiny’ metro stations holding up? Not so well

From out-of-order bathrooms to faulty barriers, the sheen has come off Sydney’s metro stations just a year after the city extension opened to rave reviews.

  • Penry Buckley
Fairfield, Lakemba and Liverpool could all be gentrified next, according to some experts.

‘The new Redfern’: The areas set to be gentrified next

The extension of the metro line to Bankstown in tandem with the city’s housing crisis suggests the make-up of south-western suburbs will change.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
Bins are back at Southern Cross Station. It only took 10 years.

It took a decade for Southern Cross Station to install bins. This might be why

Every other station in Melbourne has had bins since early 2015. Why was Southern Cross such an outlier?

  • Patrick Hatch
A Suburban Rail Loop construction site.

Premier concedes soaring costs a risk to Suburban Rail Loop

Since 2021 Australia had recorded a 22 per cent increase in the cost of construction.

  • Kieran Rooney and Daniella White
A 69-year-old man has died of significant head injuries after his bicycle was hit by a train at a level crossing near Runcorn station about 4.30am Monday morning.

Cyclist dies after collision with train at Brisbane level crossing

Queensland Rail says the boom gates were down and the lights were flashing at the level crossing at the time of the collision.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
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Emergency services respond at the scene of the collapse, in an unverified image.

‘The bridge was blown up’: At least seven dead after two Russian bridges collapse near Ukraine

The incidents in neighbouring Russian regions derailed trains, including one headed for Moscow, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens.

The government has finally reached an in-principle agreement with rail unions.

One union could derail end to Sydney’s months of train chaos

The Minns government has reached an in-principle agreement with rail workers, but one union could derail everything if it doesn’t agree to one final issue.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Sydney train drivers are among those striking over pay. They earn an average annual salary of $128,196 a year, including overtime and bonuses.

NSW government reaches agreement with rail unions after bitter dispute

Rail workers have been promised a 12 per cent pay rise over three years, bringing to an end the marathon industrial dispute between unions and the NSW government.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Megan Gorrey
Blue Mountains resident John Cenzato says locals are less concerned with new trains than with services running on time.

Passengers on this train line were hammered by delays. Now there’s more bad news

Amid this week’s rail delays, the rollout of new intercity trains to two regional commuter lines has been pushed back until at least the end of this year.

  • Penry Buckley

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