DOCSLIB.ORG

7 Oct 1999 Estimates C—Transport and Main Roads (Queensland Transport and Queensland Rail) 173

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
7 Oct 1999 Estimates C—Transport and Main Roads (Queensland Transport and Queensland Rail) 173 7 Oct 1999 Estimates C—Transport and Main Roads (Queensland Transport and Queensland Rail) 173 ESTIMATES COMMITTEE C these time limits and twice when the time has expired. More time may be given for answers if the questioner consents. The Sessional Orders Mr P. T. Lucas (Chair) Mr V. G. Johnson require that at least half the time at today's Mrs J. M. Attwood Mr B. E. Laming hearing is allotted to non-Government Mr D. B. Dalgleish Mr P. W. Wellington members. Government members and non- Government appointed members of the Committee will take turns at asking questions TRANSPORT AND MAIN ROADS in blocks lasting approximately 20 minutes. In IN ATTENDANCE relation to media coverage of today's hearing, the Committee has resolved that video Hon. S. D. Bredhauer, Minister for coverage is allowed during the Chairman's and Transport and Minister for Main Minister's opening statements. For the benefit Roads of Hansard, I ask advisers to the Ministers to Queensland Transport— identify themselves before they speak. The Mr B. Wilson, Director-General proceedings today are similar to Parliament to the extent that the public cannot participate in Mr J. Gralton, Deputy Director-General the proceedings. I remind members of the Capt. J. Watkinson, Executive Director public that, in accordance with Standing Order (Maritime) 195, members of the public may be admitted Ms J. Oswin, A/Director (Finance) to or excluded from the hearing at the pleasure of the Committee. If anyone Queensland Rail— attending today has an audible mobile phone Mr V. O'Rourke, Chief Executive or pager, please switch it off while in the Mr R. Scheuber, Deputy Chief Executive Chamber so as not to disrupt the proceedings. Department of Main Roads— The first item for consideration is the Estimates of expenditure for the Transport and Mr J. Varghese, Director-General Main Roads portfolio. The time allotted is four Mr D. Muir, Deputy Director-General and a half hours. The first area to be Mr N. Doyle, General Manager (Strategic examined is the proposed expenditure for the Policy and Development) Department of Transport, beginning with Queensland Rail, and the other Government Mr L. Cunnington, A/General Manager owned corporations that report to the Minister. (Finance and Business Services) We will continue with the Department of Main Mrs K. Peut, Executive Director (Roads Roads after morning tea. I declare the Programs) proposed expenditure for the Minister for Transport and Main Roads to be open for examination. The question before the Committee is— The Committee commenced at 8.31 a.m. "That the proposed expenditure be The CHAIRMAN: I declare this meeting of agreed to." Estimates Committee C now open. I would like Minister, would you like to make a brief to introduce the members of the Committee: introductory statement? Mrs Julie Attwood, the member for Mount Ommaney; Mr David Dalgleish, the member Mr BREDHAUER: I would. First, could I for Hervey Bay; Mr Vaughan Johnson, the introduce the officers of my department and member for Gregory, and also the Deputy Queensland Rail who are here with me today: Chairman of the Committee; Mr Bruce Laming, the Director-General of the Department of the member for Mooloolah; Mr Peter Transport, Bruce Wilson; my Director of Wellington, the member for Nicklin; and I am Finance, Judy Oswin; the Deputy Director- Paul Lucas, the member for Lytton and General, Department of Transport, John Chairman of the Committee. The Committee Gralton; the Chief Executive Officer of will examine the proposed expenditure Queensland Rail, Vince O'Rourke; and the contained in Appropriation Bill 1999 for the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Bob Scheuber. portfolios of Transport and Main Roads and A variety of other officers from the Department Public Works and Housing in that order. I of Transport and from Queensland Rail are remind members of the Committee and the here to support me and members of the Minister that the time limit for questions is one Committee. minute and three minutes for answers. A bell My Government is committed to will ring once 15 seconds before the end of developing a world-class transport network for 174 Estimates C—Transport and Main Roads (Queensland Transport and Queensland Rail) 7 Oct 1999 Queensland. In support of that goal, the that end integrated transport plans in centres Beattie Government will spend a record of including Townsville/Thuringowa, southern more than $2.5 billion this financial year on Cairns, Mackay, Gladstone, the eastern improving transport networks across Darling Downs and the Wide Bay region, Queensland. Queensland Transport has been among others, will continue this financial year. allocated more than $1.52 billion to develop, Regional rail services will be enhanced through maintain and enhance transport systems a $41m expenditure this year as part of a controlled and administered by the $240m project by QR for a rail track upgrade department. This generous Queensland between Rockhampton and Townsville. A total Transport allocation represents a significant of $30m has been budgeted for the ongoing increase on the 1998-99 funding of $1.21 development of the tilt train service to Cairns. billion and equates to $500m more than the The Government's commitment to Borbidge Government's allocation in 1997-98. improve and expand the transport network in Undoubtedly, this funding highlights the the south-east corner of the State will be importance that the Beattie Government strongly advanced this financial year. The places on providing reliable and efficient $520m South East Transit Project has been services and transport infrastructure. Through allocated ongoing funding of $183m, and this allocation my Government will be able to $32m has been set aside for the Inner progress the many exciting transport projects Northern Busway project to the Royal Brisbane currently being developed and implemented Hospital. Planning for the Inner Northern throughout the State while at the same time Busway is now in the final stages. The allowing scrutiny and progression of essential construction of the south-east busway and grassroots issues, services and infrastructure. transit lanes around Woolloongabba is now Importantly, regional Queensland has well advanced and will ultimately provide an been strongly recognised in this year's Budget, efficient bus priority service to the Brisbane with significant funding to be spent enhancing Cricket Ground at Woolloongabba in time for transport networks and operations in areas the opening round of the Olympic soccer at away from the south-east corner. Headlining the grounds on 13 September next year. the Beattie Government's focus and commitment to regional Queensland is a The $235m Brisbane Light Rail Project is $126m allocation to upgrade and expand now almost at the stage of being handed to a Queensland Rail's coal wagon fleet. This private consortium to build, own and operate. funding underpins my commitment to The project will receive $12m in funding this economic development and jobs growth year. Apart from the large-scale urban and throughout regional Queensland. To support regional projects, transport funding this year our job creation goal, a number of contracts has been specifically geared to addressing have been awarded to regional businesses. At grassroots needs identified and raised as part Maryborough, for example, the Government of the Beattie Government's extensive will spend $87m on the manufacture of 38 community consultation program. The diesel locomotives. This project alone will Government will also spend $3m extra on create 80 jobs. service delivery improvements to customer service centres and call centres and provide The Government has also recognised the strategic public transport and maritime vital economic role that ports throughout allocations at regional centres across the Queensland play in terms of business State. The funding allocations outlined today opportunities, economic development and job are but a small snapshot of the exciting creation. To that end, more than $190m will be initiatives the Beattie Government is spent this financial year on capital works at undertaking through Queensland Transport. I ports throughout Queensland. To encourage am confident that the funding and initiatives and develop economic opportunities in outlined today along with myriad other regional and remote centres of the State the Queensland Transport and Main Roads Government has committed $3.6m for rural programs not mentioned will significantly and remote aviation infrastructure. A $1.5m nurture and underpin development in this project to reconstruct the airstrip at Saibai State into the new millennium. Island heads this year's rural and remote aviation infrastructure projects, with $2.5m of The CHAIRMAN: The first round of the program allocation to be spent in north questions will be from non-Government Queensland. members. The Beattie Government is also Mr JOHNSON: I refer to the construction committed to providing holistic and integrated of the Cairns-Brisbane tilt train, which is transport solutions to regional centres, and to mentioned on page 66 of Budget Paper No. 4, 7 Oct 1999 Estimates C—Transport and Main Roads (Queensland Transport and Queensland Rail) 175 Departmental Services. As Queensland Rail is was the success of rail as a competitor to air a Government owned corporation, can the services. Minister advise whether there have been any I would think we would probably be one of directives from the shareholding Minister the few places in the world who can hold our regarding this project? If so, have these heads up and say that the quality of the directives been gazetted as required? If not, services and the efficiency of the services that can the Chief Executive advise whether the we are operating in tilt trains is out there Queensland Rail board initiated this project? In competing with air services. There would be either case, has a financial viability study some Asian countries, I guess—Japan and based on current circumstances been those sorts of places with their bullet undertaken to substantiate this project? trains—who could make that claim.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Est Cte C 1 Oct 1998
    1 Oct 1998 Estimates C—Public Works; Housing 141 ESTIMATES COMMITTEE C hearing for two 30-minute breaks, one in the morning session and one in the afternoon session, as well as for a one-hour lunchbreak between 1.30 p.m. and Mr G. B. Fenlon (Chair) Mr V. G. Johnson 2.30 p.m., subject to any changes that the Committee Mrs J. M. Attwood Mr B. E. Laming may deem appropriate as these proceedings unfold Mrs E. A. Cunningham Mr P. G. Reeves today. I remind members of the Committee and the Minister that the time limit for questions is one minute P UBLIC WORKS; HOUSING and three minutes for answers. A bell will ring once IN A TTENDANCE 15 seconds before the end of these time limits and twice when the time limit is up. A two-minute Hon. R. E. Schwarten, Minister for Public Works extension of time may be given with the consent of and Minister for Housing the questioner. The Sessional Orders require that at Department of Public Works— least half of the time is allocated to non-Government Mr M. Grierson, Acting Director-General members. Government members and non- Government members of the Committee will take Mr T. Woodward, Director, Finance and turns in asking questions in blocks lasting Information Technology approximately 20 minutes. Mr W. Pashen, Assistant Director, Finance and Copies of the Committee's questions on notice Information Technology and the Minister's responses are available from our Ms C. Tonkin, Director, Queensland Purchasing staff here today. In accordance with the Sessional Mr L.
    [Show full text]
  • The Railway Technical Society of Australasia – the First Ten Years
    The Railway Technical Society of Australasia The First Ten Years Philip Laird ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA RTSA The Railway Technical Society of Australasia The First Ten Years Philip Laird What may have been. An image from the 1990s of a future Speedrail Sydney - Canberra train at Sydney’s Central Station. Photo: Railway Digest/ARHSnsw. Three Vlocity trains standing at Southern Cross Station. These trains coupled with track upgrades as part of Victoria’s Regional Fast Rail program have seen a 30 per cent increase in patronage in their first full year of operation. Photo: Scott Martin 2008 Contents Introduction 4 RTSA Executive Chairman Ravi Ravitharan Acknowledgements Foreword 5 Hon Tim Fischer AC Section 1 Railways in Australasia 6 Section 2 The National Committee on Railway Engineering 11 Section 3 The Railway Technical Society of Australasia 17 3.1 The formation and early years 17 The Railway Technical Society of Australasia 3.2 Into the 21st century (2000 - 2004) 22 PO Box 6238, Kingston ACT 2604 3.3 Recent developments (2004 - 2008) 27 ABN 380 582 55 778 Section 4 Engineering and rail sector growth 34 4.1 The iron ore railways 34 © Copyright Philip Laird 4.2 Rail electrification in Queensland 36 and the Railway Technical Society of Australasia 2008 4.3 Queensland ‘s Mainline Upgrade 38 4.4 An East - West success story 40 Design and prepress by Ruby Graphics 4.5 The Australian Rail Track Corporation 42 Printed and bound by BPA Print Group 4.6 Perth’s urban rail renaissance 44 PO Box 110, Burwood VIC 3125 4.7 Rail in other capital cities 46 4.6 Trams and light rail 48 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry 4.9 New railways in Australia 50 4.10 New Zealand railways 52 Title: The Railway Technical Society of Australasia : the first ten years / Philip Laird.
    [Show full text]
  • Traveltrain Renewal: Sunlander 14
    Traveltrain renewal: Sunlander 14 Report 8 : 2014–15 Queensland Audit Office Location Level 14, 53 Albert Street, Brisbane Qld 4000 PO Box 15396, City East Qld 4002 Telephone (07) 3149 6000 Email [email protected] Online www.qao.qld.gov.au © The State of Queensland. Queensland Audit Office (2014) Copyright protects this publication except for purposes permitted by the Copyright Act 1968. Reproduction by whatever means is prohibited without the prior written permission of the Auditor-General of Queensland. Reference to this document is permitted only with appropriate acknowledgement. Front cover image is an edited photograph of Queensland Parliament, taken by QAO. ISSN 1834-1128 Traveltrain renewal: Sunlander 14 Contents Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Conclusions ....................................................................................................................... 2 Key findings ....................................................................................................................... 2 Traveltrain renewal program ............................................................................................. 5 Recommendations ............................................................................................................ 5 Reference to comments .................................................................................................... 5 1 Context ............................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Questions on Notice 21 Apr 1998
    21 Apr 1998 Questions on Notice 639 QUESTIONS ON NOTICE (4) Education Queensland is monitoring the situation. 1425. Building Better Schools Program, It has not recommended a school. A decision will be Ashgrove Electorate made once a recommendation is received. Amended answer by Minister for Education. See also (5) The situation is being monitored. I do not expect a p. 5177, 31 December 1997 recommendation from Education Queensland for a school unless there is some material change to the Mr FOURAS asked the Minister for Education existing situation. (25/11/97)— With reference to the Building Better Schools Program which was instigated in 1995— 2. Premier's Office, Staff Designations and Salaries How much has been expended under this excellent program at State primary schools in the Ashgrove Mr BEATTIE asked the Premier (3/3/98)— Electorate namely (a) Ashgrove State School, (b) What is the name, designation and salary range of Payne Road State School, (c) Oakleigh State School, each of the staff members currently included in the (d) Hilder Road State School and (e) Newmarket State staffing complement of the Premier's Office, including School? any departmental liaison, administrative or media Mr QUINN (5/3/98): Education Queensland officer attached to the Premier's Office. has expended $1,554,343 on the Building Better Mr Borbidge (2/4/98): Staff of the Office of the Schools program at Ashgrove, Payne Road, Oakleigh, Premier are listed in the phone listing for the Hilder Road and Newmarket State Schools. Department of the Premier and Cabinet. There are no Departmental liaison, administrative or 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Hansard 23 Aug 2000
    23 Aug 2000 Legislative Assembly 2591 WEDNESDAY, 23 AUGUST 2000 Maleny, Middlemount, Surat, Tara and Crows Nest. Adult Entertainment Permits Mr SPEAKER (Hon. R. K. Hollis, Redcliffe) read prayers and took the chair at 9.30 a.m. From Mr Knuth (73 petitioners) requesting the House to (a) refuse the applications of Koppen Investments Pty Ltd and Gregorio REGISTER OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS Pelligrini for adult entertainment permits and Report (b) repeal in its entirety the amendments to the Liquor Act 1992 contained in Part 9 of the Mr SPEAKER: Order! I lay upon the table Prostitution Act 1999. of the House the 12th report on the Register of Members' Interests. Trawling PARLIAMENTARY ANNEXE LIFTS From Mr Wellington (885 petitioners) requesting the House to call an immediate Mr SPEAKER: Order! I wish to provide stop to any further steps to reduce the trawling some information to honourable members in effort over and above the 80% already relation to yesterday's incident involving the implemented. Annexe tower lifts which resulted in some members missing a division. Having now been Petitions received. in receipt of a report from Property Services and our service maintenance contractors, I can PAPERS report to the House that the problem was due to an overload of passengers for the lift car. I MINISTERIAL PAPERS have instructed Property Services to The following papers were tabled— investigate changing the notified lift capacity Treasurer (Mr Hamill)— from the officially rated capacity of 23. I pass on the apologies of Property Services and Local Government Tax Equivalents Manual—June 2000 include my own apologies to members who were inconvenienced and distressed by Treasurer's Tax Equivalents Manual— yesterday's incident.
    [Show full text]
  • High Speed Rail a Step Closer, Conference on Railway Excellence (CORE), Adelaide May 2014
    Higher speed rail Philip Laird University of Wollongong Engineers Australia July 2014 Acknowledgements Coauthors Max Michell and Scott Martin for a paper Building a railway for the 21st century: bringing high speed rail a step closer, Conference on Railway Excellence (CORE), Adelaide May 2014 Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong Railway Technical Society of Australasia Outline 1. Current train speeds 2. High Speed Rail - in Japan and around the world 3. Higher Speed Rail 4. Australian Studies to date - from 1981 5. A Sydney Canberra option 6. Conclusions 1. Current train speeds - Southern Tablelands Mittagong - Sydney (up train) 131.6 km - weekday Most trips require a change of train at Campbelltown which have an average speed 55 to 62 km/h Direct 8:53 am taking 1h 41m 78 km/h Canberra - Sydney trains 84 to 88 km/h Australia’s fastest trains Broken Hill to Parkes - DMU 679 km 105 km/h Broken Hill to Parkes - Freight train 104 km/h Melbourne to Ballarat V/L 115 km 103 km/h … Perth - Mandurah EMU 72 km 88 km/h Melbourne - Sydney XPT 953 km 87 km/h Brisbane - Rockhampton - tilt 640 km 86 km/h 2. High Speed Rail High Speed Rail (HSR) was at least 200 km/h and is now often taken to mean passenger trains capable of at least 250km/h It started in October 1964 with the Shinkansen on the New Tokaido Line from Tokyo to Osaka in Japan (515km) Tokaido Shinkansen initial and ongoing success Now up to 400,000 passengers per day - and over 5.5 billion journeys since 1964 Extraordinary safety record/No loss of life from collision of derailment Average delay 0.6 minutes Various extensions (now over 2500 route km in all, with another line due in 2015) In 1981 - Paris-Lyon TGV in France Extensions include to Brussels and to London (Eurostar, 2007) Italy, Germany and Spain have growing HSR networks.
    [Show full text]
  • Final Report > > Rail Safety Investigation
    4 Final Report 4 4 Rail Safety Investigation 4 4 4 QT2493 Fatal Level Crossing Collision Aerodrome Road, Mundoo Near Innisfail, Queensland 1 January 2009 4 Final Report 4 4 Rail Safety Investigation 4 4 4 QT2493 ISBN 978-0-7345-2558-1 Fatal Level Crossing Collision Aerodrome Road, Mundoo Near Innisfail, Queensland 1 January 2009 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Rail Safety Investigation QT2493, 2009 page ii Department of Transport and Main Roads, Rail Safety Investigation QT2493, 2009 Table of Contents Preface v Terms of reference vi Executive summary vii 1 Factual information 1 1.1 Overview 1 1.1.1 Location 1 1.1.2 Train information 3 1.1.3 Truck information 5 1.2 The occurrence 7 1.3 Post occurrence 10 1.3.1 Loss and damage 11 1.4 Environmental information 13 2 Analysis 14 2.1 Sequence of events analysis 14 2.1.1 Passage of train – train speed 14 2.1.2 Passage of truck – truck speed 16 2.1.3 Emergency response 17 2.2 Traffic control system effectiveness 17 2.2.1 Level crossings in Australia 17 2.2.2 Railway level crossing management 19 2.2.3 Level crossing compliance - Aerodrome Road 21 2.2.4 Level crossing occurrence history 26 2.3 Human factors 26 2.3.1 Truck driver behaviour 26 2.3.2 Factors unlikely to have affected truck driver behaviour 28 2.3.3 Factors likely to have affected the truck driver’s behaviour 30 2.4 Crashworthiness of the train 34 2.4.1 Locomotives 34 2.4.2 The Sunlander carriages 36 2.5 Passenger questionnaire 38 3 Conclusions 40 3.1 Context 40 3.2 Findings 40 3.3 Contributing factors 42 4 Safety actions 43 4.1 Subloo’s Pty Ltd 43 4.1.1 Truck driver’s attention 43 4.1.2 Seatbelt usage 43 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Rail Safety Investigation QT2493, 2009 page iii 4.2 QR Passenger Pty Ltd.
    [Show full text]
  • Sustainable Transport: More Than Cost–Benefit Analysis
    OUR PUBLIC TRANSPORT A Community View An initiative of Labor Council of NSW Rail, Tram and Bus Union Australian Services Union NSW Transport Unions Prepared by Sally Campbell November 2003 Stuart White UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures OUR PUBLIC TRANSPORT A Community View An initiative of Labor Council of NSW Rail, Tram and Bus Union Australian Services Union Transport Workers Union and other NSW Transport Unions Prepared by Sally Campbell Stuart White November 2003 UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures Our Public Transport Foreword The quality of a public transport system is fundamental to the health of a society. It affects our ability to get around, it affects the air we breathe, it even affects our physical fitness. The health of the public transport system is of particular importance to workers in NSW, both those involved in the transport sector, and the hundreds of thousands who rely on the system to get to and from work every day. With this in mind, the Labor Council of NSW decided to invite contributions from stakeholders to broaden the terms of this vital public debate. This report is the product of that dialogue, setting out the common ground among a variety of stakeholders. The overwhelming response is that public transport is an essential community asset, an asset that needs to be enhanced, rather than a problem to be solved. The common view articulated by the community is that, based on the interim report of the Ministerial Inquiry into public transport, NSW is currently heading along the wrong track. Their message to Government is that we need an integrated system that reduces reliance on the private motor vehicle; in our cities and our regions.
    [Show full text]
  • TOP TABLE TALK – GRAIN TRANSPORT by RAIL Graincorp: Silo Closures
    AUSTRALASIAN TIMETABLE NEWS No. 263, July 2014 ISSN 1038-3697 RRP $4.95 Published by the Australian Timetable Association www.austta.org.au TOP TABLE TALK – GRAIN TRANSPORT BY RAIL GrainCorp: silo closures. remains open to operating Tier 3 lines commercially if an East Coast grain handling company GrainCorp has agreement could be reached which underwrote investment announced that it will close 72 of its 252 silos. GrainCorp into the lines, he said. Mr Larsen told the inquiry his says the closures will be of smaller silos which handle only company had paid the Government for the right to negotiate 10% of its receivals. The remaining 180 silos handle 90% of access to the rail network, and it would not consider leasing its receivals. the rail to CBH. Brookfield has a 50-year lease on the lines. In a statement to ABC News, Mr Larsen said the core Genesee & Wyoming: SA grain line problem was that road freight transport did not pay the true cost of using roads. Mr Larsen said, for the rail industry to closures remain competitive, it could not charge access rates that It is believed that SA intrastate train operator Genesee & covered costs. He said Brookfield had invested more than $2 Wyoming may close two lines in the SA Mallee wheatbelt by billion into the railway to increase freight volumes. "Despite the end of 2014. These are from Tailem Bend to Tookyerta challenges with Tier 3 lines, over the last six months our rail (near Loxton) and from Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo. network has supported a record harvest of 15.85 million Brookfield Rail: WA grain line closures tonnes, transporting grain on rail at an annualised rate of over 10 million tonnes to WA ports," he said.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Review 2 0 11 Contents
    ANNUAL REVIEW 2 0 11 CONTENTS CEO’s report 02 Downer Australia 04 Downer New Zealand 06 Downer Mining 08 Downer Rail 10 Our people 12 Environmental sustainability 14 Safety 16 Company directory IBC DOWNER OVERVIEW DOWNER PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE ENGINEERING AND INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO ITS CUSTOMERS IN AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION, SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM. DOWNER DESIGNS, CONSTRUCTS AND MAINTAINS THE BEST SOLUTIONS FOR ITS CUSTOMERS WHILE FOCUSING ON THE SAFETY OF ITS EMPLOYEES AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH IT OPERATES. DOWNER EMPLOYS OVER 20,000 PEOPLE AND IS COMMITTED TO ITS GOAL OF ZERO HARM. Cover image: James Forrest Downer Mining at Christmas Creek DOWNER AUSTRALIA Downer Australia provides integrated solutions to support the critical infrastructure needs of customers in the core markets of Minerals & Metals, Oil & Gas, Power, Transport Infrastructure, Water, Communications and Property. 04 DOWNER NEW ZEALAND Downer is one of New Zealand’s largest transport, water, communications and renewable energy infrastructure service providers and is often referred to as the country’s fourth emergency service. 06 DOWNER MINING Downer is one of Australia’s leading diversified mining contractors, with over 3,500 employees working across more than 50 sites in Australia, DOWNER RAIL New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South America and South Africa. 08 Downer is the leading provider and maintainer of freight and passenger rolling stock in Australia, operating three engineering design centres, four manufacturing plants and over 20 maintenance facilities. 10 OUR PEOPLE Downer employs over 20,000 people who deliver results for our customers, the communities in which we operate and each other.
    [Show full text]
  • Est Cte C 2000
    3 Aug 2000 Estimates C—Transport and Main Roads 177 ESTIMATES COMMITTEE C and Chair of this Committee. My fellow Committee members are: Mr Vaughan Johnson, the member for Gregory, who is also Mrs J. M. Attwood (Chair) Mr B. E. Laming our Deputy Chair today; Mr Jeff Knuth, who is Mr V. G. Johnson Mr P. T. Lucas not present at the moment; Mr Bruce Laming, Mr J. A. Knuth Mr R. J. Mickel the member for Mooloolah; Mr Paul Lucas, the member for Lytton; and Mr John Mickel, who will be joining us shortly. The Committee will TRANSPORT AND MAIN ROADS examine the proposed expenditure contained IN ATTENDANCE in the Appropriation Bill 2000 for the portfolios of Transport and Main Roads and Public Hon. S. D. Bredhauer, Minister for Works and Housing, in that order. Transport and Minister for Main Roads I remind the Committee and the Minister that the time limit for questions is one minute Transport— and for answers is three minutes. A bell will Mr B. Wilson, Director-General ring once 15 seconds before the end of these Mr J. Gralton, Deputy Director-General time limits and twice when the time is expired. I will allow more time for answers if the Mr D. Hunt, Executive Director (Land questioner consents. The Sessional Orders Transport and Safety) require that at least half the time for questions Mr M. McShea, Executive Director (Public at today's hearing be allotted to non- Transport) Government members. Government members Capt. J. Watkinson, Executive Director and non-Government members of the (Maritime) Committee will take turns at asking questions in blocks lasting approximately 20 minutes.
    [Show full text]
  • ARHS Author's Guide 2015
    ARHS Author’s Guide 2015 AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HISTORical society (nsw) A Guide to researching, writing and submitting material 1 | Page ARHS Author’s Guide 2015 Table of contents 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. HISTORICAL RESEARCH 2.1 Key Themes in our Railway History 4 2.2 Sources for Research 6 3. WRITING YOUR STORY 3.1 The ARH audience 8 3.2 Spelling 10 3.3 Capitals 11 3.5 Punctuation 14 3.5 Quotations 16 3.6 Abbreviations, numbers, dates and currency 16 3.7 Measurement 18 4. ARHS STYLE ISSUES 4.1 Time 20 4.2 Australian States & Territories 20 4.3 Train Directions 21 4.4 Train/Locomotive Descriptions 21 4.5 Railway Equipment 22 5. PREPARING AND SUBMITTING ARTICLES 5.1 Preparation and Review 24 5.2 The ARH Editing Process 25 5.3 Overview: Future Directions 26 INDEX 31 2 | Page ARHS Author’s Guide 2015 1. INTRODUCTION The Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) traces its origins to October 1937, when the then Australasian Railway & Locomotive Society produced its first ‘Monthly Bulletin’. This was essentially as a members’ newsletter (known as the ‘Bulletin’) run off on a Gestetner machine until May 1950 when it was updated to a letterpress periodical. The ARHS has since grown into a national organisation with divisions in each state devoted to researching and recording the history of Australia’s railways. Its original ‘Bulletin’ evolved into Australia’s oldest specialist magazine covering the history of our colonial railway systems and their evolution into a national network. The society formally changed its name to the Australian Railway Historical Society in January 1952.
    [Show full text]