Australia is Building Trains Again

00:00 Intro 00:32 The Cost of Importing 04:04 How Importing Trains Hurt Local Workforce 06:47 The Comeback 06:51 Queensland: Torbanlea Train Manufacturing Facility 07:22 New South Wales: The Hunter Back To Train Building 08:23 Western Australia: Bellevue Railcar Assembly Facility 08:52 Victoria: First Locally Built Tram In A Decade Entered Service 09:48 The Hidden Problem There was a time when Australia built its own trains. Then, for a few decades, we mostly stopped. Now the industry is making a comeback, with new factories being built and old facilities returning to train production. So what went wrong in the first place? And what's driving the comeback? Bahnfrend CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interur... Bahnfrend CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburba... QRtrains CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburba... #queenslandrail #melbournetrains #sydneymetro #sydneytrains #perth #transperth