UGL Rail is an Australian rail engineering company and specialises in building and re-building railway cars including electric and diesel passenger trains, electric and diesel locomotives, and freight wagons (particularly hopper cars for coal and iron ore haulage). It is a business unit of UGL Limited and is based in Melbourne, Victoria, with a staff of 1,200 people across Australia and Asia. UGL Rail owns 20% of Metro Trains Melbourne, the consortium which ran Melbourne's metro railway network from 30 November 2009.
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“Old man, it’s four flights up and for what?
Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.
Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut
stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)