The Don River in Tasmania's north-west, near Devonport, has long been characterised by the whistles and chugs of its railway. The rail was established in the 1850s to transport timber and coal From ...

When Greg Stewart finished building three working rail bugs, he could not quite believe he had managed it. "I am sort of amazed ... I never really knew if it was going to work," he said. "I'm an old ...

Two Harsco Rail heavy-duty track surfacing machines—a Mark VI Production/Switch Tamper and a Ballast Regulator—are on their way to Launceston, in the Australian island state of Tasmania, for ...

The Australian and Tasmanian Governments have jointly awarded the single largest tender of the A$119.6m ($85m) Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation Project to VEC Civil Engineering for track works on ...

TasRail’s Western line in north-west Tasmania has been closed after ten wagons came off the tracks following a freight train derailment near Kimberley, Northern Cape Province of South Africa. A total ...

As a young boy in Bellerive he remembers a fascination with the steam ferry across the Derwent. “Dad used to always get me interested in things that were run by steam,” Mr Coen said. This fascination ...

Tasmania's long and proud railway history had never been properly documented until authors Lou Rae and Tony Coen decided to make it into a page-turner. Sports reporter at The Examiner. Focus on ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. About 1am on February 5, the Derwent Valley Railway’s CCTV system at its New Norfolk yard recorded three ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. As a young boy in Bellerive he remembers a fascination with the steam ferry across the Derwent. “Dad used ...

About 1am on February 5, the Derwent Valley Railway’s CCTV system at its New Norfolk yard recorded three individuals vandalising two ACS train cars, which were originally built in the 1960s for the ...