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❓ Question seeks details on local manufacturing processes for C-series train components, following up on a media statement. The answer provides a generic description for most parts and refers to an older statement for the remaining businesses.

AnsweredQoN 86Legislative Council

Asked

10 April 2025

Member

Hon Steve Martin

Portfolio

Transport

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I refer to the examples of local manufacturing in relation to the new C-series trains in the Minister's media statement on 7 April 2024, and I ask: (a) what is the manufacturing process undertaken in Western Australia to produce the bogie frames; (b) what is the manufacturing process undertaken in Western Australia to produce the battery boxes; (c) what is the manufacturing process undertaken in Western Australia to produce the pantographs; (d) what is the manufacturing process undertaken in Western Australia to produce the passenger seats; (e) what is the manufacturing process undertaken in Western Australia to produce the piping; (f) what is the manufacturing process undertaken in Western Australia to produce the metallic components; and (g) what were the other 9, of the 15 local businesses mentioned in the release, each individually responsible for producing?

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Answered

20 May 2025

Responded by

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport

Response time

4 days

(a)-(f) For the bogies, battery boxes, pantographs, passenger seats and metallic components, steel and other raw materials are cut to the required sizes and shapes and fabricated to form the various items. Piping is cut and bent as required, and fittings are attached to complete the piping.
(g) I refer the Member to the Minister’s media statement of 7 June 2021.

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