Rayl

Rail Engineering & Consulting · Brisbane

Rail engineering expertise.
From the inside.

Program delivery, train protection, safety and compliance, and AI intelligence. Specialists who have held these mandates inside TMR, Wabtec, Hitachi, Aurizon and Australia's biggest rail programs, now working on your side.

$14B+
Rail programs delivered by the Rayl team
AutoHaul
World's first driverless heavy haul operation. Rayl team inside the delivery.
100%
Senior specialist on every engagement. No juniors on your program.
ETCS L2
Active on Queensland's ETCS deployment and Investment Decision now.
What We Deliver

Four disciplines.
All delivered by specialists with direct program history.

Each specialist we deploy has held the mandate you need, inside a program of comparable scale. The evidence is in the delivery history below each pillar.

Alliance · PPP · $2B+ Programs

Program Delivery

$11B Melbourne Metro Tunnel · $2.2B Aurizon Heavy Haul · Sydney Metro $1B+ Procurement

End-to-end program and project management for complex rail delivery. Our team has led programs from concept through to handover across PPP, alliance, and government-managed structures — including roles as Rail Package Director, Alliance Board Member, and Commercial Lead on Australia's most significant rail infrastructure projects.

We hold accountability for outcomes, not advisory positions. The specialists we deploy have delivered programs at this scale personally. They know where programs fail and why, because they have been inside the ones that recovered.

Track record$11B Melbourne Metro Tunnel, $2.2B Aurizon, $700M Sydney Metro extension
StructuresPPP (D&C and O&M), Alliance, Government-managed
ToolsPrimavera P6, Earned Value, Critical Path

ETCS · ATO · ATP · CBTC · SIL 4

Train Protection & Signalling

AutoHaul (Rio Tinto) · Cross River Rail ETCS L2 · Sydney Metro GOA4 · Gold Coast Light Rail

The deepest technical cluster in the Rayl team. Two team members were personally inside the delivery of AutoHaul — the world's first and largest driverless heavy haul operation. Rayl specialists have delivered ETCS L2 for Cross River Rail rollingstock, GOA4 driverless commissioning for Sydney Metro, and 11 years of continuous Gold Coast Light Rail signalling delivery.

Rayl specialists are currently leading the ETCS deployment and Investment Decision Report for TMR's Queensland Regional Train Protection project. Live, active work on the exact programs that operators are wrestling with now.

TechnologiesETCS L1/L2, ATO, ATP/WESTEC, CBTC (GOA4), ERTMS, PTC
CredentialsSIL 4 safety cases to EN 50129, RPEQ, IRSE, Chartered Engineers Australia
ReferenceAutoHaul, Cross River Rail, Sydney Metro, TMR ETCS (active)

ONRSR · SMS · ISA · IV&V · M&A

Safety, Compliance & Assessment

ONRSR regulatory submissions · ISA and IV&V mandates inside TMR · Rail sector M&A due diligence

Independent Safety Assessment, IV&V, Safety Manager, and SMS compliance across ONRSR's 29-element framework. Our team has held these mandates inside Queensland's largest programs and brings direct regulatory relationships built over 15+ years with TMR and the National Rail Safety Regulator.

Rail sector M&A and technical due diligence. We give buyers and boards a clear, defensible view of what they are acquiring — the technical condition, contractual exposure, and regulatory risk — written by people who have run these programs from the inside.

RegulatoryONRSR · RSNL · ARISO · National Rail Action Plan
Roles heldISA, IV&V, Safety Manager, Lead Auditor ISO 9001/14001/45001
M&A scopeTechnical due diligence, asset assessment, contract review

DHI AI · Compliance Automation · Asset Lifecycle

AI Intelligence

DHI AI platform live with a public transport operator in Victoria · First AI compliance deployment in Australian rail

AI-generated compliance intelligence and asset lifecycle management for the rail sector, delivered in partnership with DHI AI. The platform is already live in production with a public transport operator in Victoria, the first AI compliance deployment in Australian rail. Rayl provides the engineering domain expertise and Professional Engineer sign-off on every output.

No AI finding reaches a client without full PE review. The model is built on that accountability: AI at scale, certified by engineers who have spent careers inside the regulatory frameworks the outputs are checked against.

PlatformDHI AI — live in production, public transport operator in Victoria
StreamsETCS Program Intelligence, SMS Compliance Monitor, Asset Lifecycle, AI Governance
StandardsISO/IEC 42001, VAISS, ONRSR positioning, EU AI Act alignment
Where We Came From

We've been on the other side
of the table from you.

Every specialist on your program has worked inside the operators, OEMs, and major programs that define Australian rail. They understand how the other side thinks, how contracts are structured, and where the risk actually sits. That knowledge transfers directly to your engagement.

Transport and Main Roads
Queensland
15+ years embedded · ISA · IV&V · Safety Manager

Direct relationships at program leadership level. The regulatory positioning knowledge that only comes from years inside the operator, not from reading their documents.

Wabtec / GE Transportation
Australia & New Zealand
VP Sales · Managing Director · $200M+ annual sales

Complete visibility into how rail technology suppliers structure contracts, where performance guarantees are soft, and what commitments can realistically be made.

Ansaldo STS
AutoHaul · Asia-Pacific
Alliance Board Member · ATO Systems Engineer · SVP Delivery

Two team members were inside the delivery of AutoHaul — the world's first driverless heavy haul operation. That program is the benchmark for autonomous rail globally.

Aurizon
National Heavy Haul
GM Major Projects · National Fleet Reliability · Coal Systems

$2.2B of brownfield and greenfield infrastructure delivered. 1,100km across four network systems. Fleet reliability and signalling lifecycle from the operator side.

Cross River Rail
Delivery Authority
ETCS Rollingstock PM · Interface Manager

Five years inside Queensland's largest rail infrastructure program. ETCS L2 delivery for the rollingstock fleet, from design and prototyping through to interface management.

Hitachi Rail
Asia-Pacific Programs
Senior Vice President · Program Leadership

International program delivery at the most senior level. The depth of technical and commercial authority that comes from being responsible for Hitachi's Asia-Pacific rail portfolio.

Sydney Metro / TfNSW
City & South West · Northwest
TSOM Commercial Lead · Head of Projects · PPP O&M

Led the largest sole-sourced procurement undertaken by TfNSW — over $1B. Delivered $700M GOA4 driverless extension and a $500M 10-year PPP operations contract.

Bombardier · Alstom · Tehnika
International Programs
Program Director · Lead Engineer · Turnkey Rail Systems

Delivery experience spanning Bangkok, Seoul, Gauteng, Taipei, and the Gold Coast. The international benchmark knowledge that informs every recommendation made in Australia.

Delivery History
Melbourne Metro Tunnel · $11B PPP · Rail & Tunnel Package Director
AutoHaul (Rio Tinto / Ansaldo) · $470M · World's first driverless heavy haul
Cross River Rail · ETCS L2 Rollingstock Delivery · 5 years
Aurizon Infrastructure · $2.2B · 1,100km · 4 Network Systems
Sydney Metro City & South West · $1B+ TSOM Procurement Lead
Geelong Fast Rail · $4B · 73km · Program Director
Gold Coast Light Rail · Stages 1, 2 & 3 · 11 years continuous delivery
TMR Regional Train Protection · ETCS Deployment Study · Active 2025–present
Wabtec / GE Transportation ANZ · $200M+ annual sales · VP Sales & MD roles
Sydney Metro Northwest Extension · $700M · GOA4 Driverless · 23 new trains
Aurizon Trip Optimizer · National fleet · Multiple locomotive types
Canberra Light Rail Stage 2a · Signalling PM & Lead Engineer

The Rayl team has delivered more than $14B in rail programs across Australia, Asia-Pacific, and internationally. Every credential listed above was held firsthand by a specialist now available to your program.

AI Compliance Intelligence

The Intelligence Layer
Australian Rail
Needs Now.

We started Rayl to put the Y in rail. Now we're bringing the AI to it.

In partnership with DHI AI, whose platform already powers compliance surveillance for a public transport operator in Victoria, Rayl brings structured, auditable, human-certified AI to the Australian rail sector. ARISO has 240 technical standards. Zero address AI governance. The UK regulator moved in May 2026. ONRSR will follow.

AI Technology Partner
DHI AI
Live Production Reference
Public Transport operator · Victoria

The first AI compliance intelligence deployment in Australian rail, operating in production.

240+
ARISO technical standards
0
Australian AI-specific rail standards
May 2026
UK ORR Safe AI Action Plan published
Live
DHI AI operational in Victoria

ETCS Program Intelligence

Current Challenge

Major ETCS delivery programs generate thousands of contractor documents. Each must comply with ARISO signalling standards and ERA technical specifications. Manual checking cannot scale to program volume.

Rayl Delivery

AI-powered contractor document ingestion, structured compliance checking against applicable standards, automated gap flagging, version tracking, and human-certified sign-off with full ONRSR audit trail.

SMS Compliance Monitor

Current Challenge

Every ONRSR-accredited operator must maintain a Safety Management System across 29 Schedule 1 elements. When ARISO updates a standard, the impact on the operator's SMS is identified manually, if at all.

Rayl Delivery

Continuous SMS compliance monitoring against all 29 ONRSR Schedule 1 elements. Automated standards change alerts with gap impact analysis. Human-certified compliance reports, audit-ready for ONRSR review.

Asset Intelligence & Maintenance

Current Challenge

Rail asset data is fragmented across disparate systems: spreadsheets, PDFs, legacy platforms, and paper records. Critical monitoring alerts misroute. Failure patterns go undetected until an incident occurs.

Rayl Delivery

Unstructured asset data converted to structured, monitored intelligence. Critical alert routing. Maintenance pattern analysis. Human-certified priority recommendations documented against AS 7474 and AS 7639.

Contractor Surveillance

Current Challenge

Contractor pre-qualification is a point-in-time assessment. Compliance during delivery is monitored manually and intermittently. Documentation lapses between assessment points create undetected risk.

Rayl Delivery

Continuous monitoring of contractor Safety Management Plans, method statements, and competency documentation against network rules and applicable ARISO standards. Automatic flagging before incidents occur.

AI Governance Framework

Current Challenge

ARISO has 240+ technical standards. Zero address AI. ONRSR has no AI guidance. The UK ORR published its Safe AI Action Plan in May 2026. The EU AI Act is in force from August 2026. Australian operators need a framework before the regulator mandates one.

Rayl Delivery

Design and implementation of an AI Management System aligned to ISO/IEC 42001, Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard (10 guardrails), and the HITL/HOTL framework from ISO/IEC 22989. Documented, auditable, ONRSR-ready.

Get in Touch

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Rayl · Brisbane
Headquarters
Level 5, 231 George St Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia
Direct Line
+61 449 954 553
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