INTERRUPTION TO BUSINESS:
The unprecedented effect of the coronavirus COVID-19 worldwide has devastated many industries, not least of all Australasia's media. Sadly, Track+Signal has become a casualty of this and, for now, the magazine has been placed into temporary recess.
The release of issue 24-1 has been put on hold and our office is currently unstaffed and will remain closed in the short term.
The unused portion of all paid annual subscriptions will be refunded once we have a chance to safely access our physical files. Realistically, this is not likely to be possible before late April or, more likely, May so we ask that subscribers kept waiting bear with us.
We are deeply disappointed by this need to suspend publication of such a long-established and respected magazine and stress that this is an interim measure taken reluctantly to see us through an extremely challenging period.
We look forward to reprising Track+Signal as soon as business is able to rebound.
In the meantime, we have every confidence that rail will continue to play its vital part in keeping Australasia connected and supplied. Please stay safe, wherever you are and whatever you're doing, professionally and otherwise.
The release of issue 24-1 has been put on hold and our office is currently unstaffed and will remain closed in the short term.
The unused portion of all paid annual subscriptions will be refunded once we have a chance to safely access our physical files. Realistically, this is not likely to be possible before late April or, more likely, May so we ask that subscribers kept waiting bear with us.
We are deeply disappointed by this need to suspend publication of such a long-established and respected magazine and stress that this is an interim measure taken reluctantly to see us through an extremely challenging period.
We look forward to reprising Track+Signal as soon as business is able to rebound.
In the meantime, we have every confidence that rail will continue to play its vital part in keeping Australasia connected and supplied. Please stay safe, wherever you are and whatever you're doing, professionally and otherwise.
PREVIOUS ISSUE:Light rail set to return to Sydney CBDWITH the opening of its main section to Randwick scheduled to take place in early December, Sydney CBD and South East Light Rail has been busy training drivers, testing systems and vehicles and having the newly-completed track ground from end to end by Speno Rail Maintenance Australia to remove construction debris.
NZ restoration wins major awardWORK by KiwiRail and its project partners in the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery Alliance to restore the railway line between Picton and Christchurch devastated by the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake has won a prestigious North American rail industry award. The New Zealand entry is the first from outside the United States and Canada to have won the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association’s annual WW Hay Award for Excellence.
Rail loses a true championTIM Fischer AC – railway advocate and enthusiast, former deputy prime minister and a universally respected human being – lost his battle with an acute form of leukaemia on 22 August in Albury, New South Wales, at the age of 73. He never missed an opportunity to speak on the benefits of rail.
ARA confirms new CEOAUSTRALIAN Airports Association CEO Caroline Wilkie will take over as chief executive officer of the Australasian Railway Association. Ms Wilkie will assume her Canberra-based appointment in mid February. She will replace Danny Broad at the helm of the peak industry body as he moves into the role of chairman after the retirement of Bob Herbert AM, who will step down from the board at the end of 2019.
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