The ARA congratulates the 16 winners of the prestigious Australasian Rail Industry (ARI) Awards on Wednesday night. 

The 2024 awards feature 16 categories recognising individuals, organisations and rail projects in the areas of diversity and inclusion, sustainability, passenger, infrastructure, innovation, supply, customer experience, freight, signalling and systems engineering and safety. 

Metro Trains Melbourne won the Customer Service Excellence Award for its transport management for the Taylor Swift concert series, with an additional 145 train services and more than 200 additional staff deployed to get more than 130,000 attendees to concerts over three nights. 

Phil Ellingworth, Chief Engineer at Metro Trains Melbourne, won the Career Achievement Award in recognition of his significant contribution to the industry. 

The Awards also featured a range of individual awards for emerging leaders and young rail professionals. 

The Emerging Rail Specialist Award was awarded to Curtiss Hood, the Young Achiever Award went to Samiha Najem, Associate Director of Operational Technology, Sydney Trains, the Young Rail Professional Award was awarded to Dylan Jacobs, Associate Track and Civil Engineer, Jacobs and the Signalling and Systems Engineering Award was awarded to Mohan Sankarasubbu, Principal Signalling Engineer, Hitachi Rail Australia. 

The Awards are supported by the Australasian Railway Association, Institution of Railway Signal Engineers, Railway Technical Society of Australia, Rail Track Association Australia, the Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board and the Permanent Way Institution (NSW).

 

Winner’s list:  Click here to see a list of all the winners from the night.

Social media: We celebrated the awards on the ARA LinkedIn.

Media Release:  A copy of our Media Release can be found here.

Save the Date: Next year’s Australasian Rail Industry Awards Gala dinner will be held on Wednesday 17 September 2025 in Sydney.

Sponsorship: If your organisation would like to sponsor the 2025 Australasian Rail Industry Awards Gala Dinner, please complete the EOI form by clicking here. We would be happy to discuss sponsorship opportunities with you.

If you have any questions, please contact ARA Event Manager, Kathy Chandler on 0457 595 500 or at [email protected]