13/10/2026
Fun fact: tram track doesn’t last forever. Eventually, the rails and the materials around them need a bit of TLC. That’s where track renewal comes in – and on a network as big as Melbourne’s, it’s a serious engineering job.
Usually, that old material is landfill. Yarra Trams and Fulton Hogan decided to try something else: pull it up, work out what could be reused and put it straight back to work.
They called it the Circular Economy Within Track Renewals project, and it just won Best Environmental and Sustainability Initiative at the 2026 Global Light Rail Awards in London. Congratulations, team!