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Article: Australia : Poor planning sends freight rail project off track.
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- November 3, 2009
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Byline: rakshali03
A union says hundreds of workers will lose their jobs because poor planning has led to a delay in the building of a freight train line in Sydney.
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is responsible for interstate rail lines, leasing the tracks from the New South Wales Government.
It has begun building the 36 kilometre freight line between Macarthur and Sefton, in south western Sydney, to alleviate a freight bottleneck in the city and allow freight and passenger trains to operate on separate tracks.
But in a statement today, the ARTC says three issues have directly affected the project: signalling system ...