Railway Digest  |  Railway Digest June 2014
VFT – 30 years on
30 years ago, the CSIRO prepared a modest report on ‘A Proposal for a Fast Railway between Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne’. Since then, millions of dollars have been spent on reports, but with no tangible progress. Former insider Colin Butcher examines the issues behind the obvious question “what went wrong and where do we go from here?”
So long silver trains
Dominik Giemza and Gareth Lumsden pay tribute in word and picture to the recently retired, much-admired quiet achievers, the ‘Hitachis’.
Maldon–Dombarton – not if, but when
The Maldon–Dombarton railway has remained in limbo since the Greiner government cancelled the project in mid-1988. Philip Laird explains why completion of the much-studied and long-awaited link line is now overdue.
Brisbane’s BaT project planning takes flight
Originally known as the Cross River Rail Link, Brisbane’s plan to ease rail congestion by way of a tunnel beneath the Brisbane River has now evolved into a combined rail and bus project, known as the BaT. John Hoyle reports.
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