Track + Signal - November 2019–January 2020

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With 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. Work 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. Tim 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. Australian 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.