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The final commissioning of the Enfield
staging roads occurred over the
Christmas period with all train signalling
and train movements being managed
by our Network Control Centre at
Junee. This project was technically
challenging, involving significant
interface issues, a mixture of old and
new technologies as well as requiring
a high level of cooperation between
Sydney Trains, the project team and
alliance contractor.
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This year also saw the successful
completion of the Port Botany Rail
Upgrade Stage 2 project. Funded by
the Australian Government, this project
involved the separation of the signalling
and train control functions between
ARTC and Sydney Trains on the
Metropolitan Freight Network (MFN)
in Sydney.
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The Port Botany Rail Upgrade Stage 3
project commenced this year, involving
the upgrading of the MFN to provide
for greater reliability, as well as the
undertaking of a study to confirm
future capacity requirements and the
associated costs.
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To support our increased customer
focus we have expanded our
marketing and business development
capability. This, along with our
analysis of key market traffic flows,
will enable more targeted marketing
activity, including a focus on regional
freight opportunities. We will
also be broadening our customer
relationships to engage with freight
owners, terminal operators and
freight forwarders, as well as rail
operators, and we’ll be supporting
key infrastructure projects that will
facilitate new volumes on our network.
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Reliability levels on our East West
network have improved and temporary
speed restrictions are at an all-time
low, which means services operate
more efficiently, improving freight and
passenger delivery times.
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We removed 11 minutes of delays due
to speed restrictions between Maroona
and Ararat on the Melbourne to
Adelaide line. This was through ballast
cleaning which improved the quality of
the track at a cost of $1.25m.
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Customers welcomed the introduction
of Centralised Train Control between
Tarcoola and Port Augusta replacing
the manual train order system, vastly
improving safety and providing more
reliable train pathing.
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We installed five new weather
stations in key locations across the
Nullabor. The data collected at these
stations feeds into our early warning
meteorological system allowing better
real-time information. This means we
can act fast and take action early to
help protect our customers’ services
and our assets.
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Level crossing safety was the focus
of a new monitoring system trial at
Aviation Road at Laverton, Victoria, a
high-use level crossing that traverses
our Interstate rail corridor as well as the
V/Line and Melbourne metropolitan
networks. The trial is monitoring
pedestrian and road user behaviour at a
busy at-grade road-rail crossing.
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