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Faulty wiper, communications system forces Perth passengers off C-Series train
Passengers on Wednesday were told to get off their service entering the Perth underground and catch the next train because the train could no longer continue service.
- Hamish Hastie
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Transport authority to sit down with train drivers over C-Series concerns
The driver workshop would be held in the coming weeks after more than 79 per cent surveyed recently called for the government to suspend railcar delivery until issues were addressed.
- Hamish Hastie
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Taxpayers fork out almost $500m to shield Metro Trains from pandemic fallout
Victoria is paying Metro Trains to offset lower passenger revenue, ensuring the private rail operator records bumper profits despite patronage falling as a result of work-from-home habits.
- Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney
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Transport for NSW warns of heightened risk of ‘failures’ on rail network
A confidential memo blames unions for slowing progress in reducing the maintenance backlog across the system.
- Max Maddison
New Anzac metro station opened up for ‘trainspotters’ block party’
Thousands partied underground at the new Anzac Station for RISING, mixing trainspotting with tunes from Briggs ahead of the new Metro Tunnel’s opening.
- Rachael Dexter
End to train chaos in sight as workers ordered to vote on wage deal
The government and rail unions reached an in-principle agreement, but one union tried to block a vote. A decision on Friday cleared the path for it to go ahead.
- Megan Gorrey
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
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
‘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
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
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