About Frontline Rail

Frontline Rail is the new chapter in an old story – the story of Frontline Engineering.

In 1997, after 20 years building, maintaining and repairing railcars, wagons and locomotives with Commonwealth Engineering, Peter Nielson left to establish his own business. The breadth of knowledge and skills that background brings has underpinned Frontline Engineering’s reputation for quality and capability, innovation and flexibility in the provision of services to many of the heavy rail operators in Western Australia.

In 2011, Peter brought new partners into the business to enable it to vastly increase its services to clients. In doing so, the company changed its name to more directly reflect its involvement with rail as well as its expansionary commitment to deliver a much fuller suite of refurbishment services.

In April 2021 Peter sold the business to one of his employees Christopher Bradfield, Chris with the guidance of Peter is making a solid name for himself in the industry

Frontline Rail is not the biggest services provider in the industry – that’s not our objective.

Rather, we strive to be recognised as the provider that puts clients first; is innovative and flexible to serve client needs; and works to the highest level of industry standards. That is our commitment in working to establish long-term partnerships for mutual benefit.