Canberra to Sydney rail link to get $100m upgrade to improve train speeds (www.abc.net.au)

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The federal government is putting $50 million towards priority upgrades to the Canberra-Sydney rail link, with the ACT and NSW governments each contributing $25 million.

The upgrades are expected to improve the travel time between the two cities, which currently takes more than four hours.

Upgrade works are expected to commence this year and be ongoing for up to five years.

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[-] Tau@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Some work there seems well overdue, the train takes a lot longer than the bus trip let alone compared to driving yourself. Plenty of talk about high speed rail lines in the far future but even just ok speed rail would attract more people. Be nice if they had a more convenient rail terminus than Kingston too but I can't see that changing anytime soon given how expensive it would be to extend the line closer to the city.

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Be nice if they had a more convenient rail terminus than Kingston too

It was a pain running my suitcase a few dozen blocks from the bus stop when the last train out to Sydney's almost gone.

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