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Thiess Pty Ltd is an international mining services company based in Brisbane, Australia. Established in the 1930s as Horn & Thiess, the company later became Thiess Bros and Thiess Contractors before being bought by Leighton Holdings in 1983 to become part of the CIMIC Group. Thiess' headquarters are located in the Thiess Centre in South Bank in the Brisbane CBD near the TAFE Brisbane City campus.
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- ↑ "Airport link" Railway Gazette International February 1996 page 62
- ↑ Brisbane Airport Rail Link Deadline Extended Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Transport 2 September 1997
- ↑ Btisbane Airport Rail Link Deed Signed Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Government of Queensland 21 April 1998
- ↑ "Brisbane Airport rail link go-ahead" Railway Digest June 1998 pages 26, 27
- ↑ Brisbane airport BOT Archived 14 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Railway Gazette International 1 April 1999
- ↑ "Airport Line Tracklaying Commences in Brisbane" Railway Digest October 2000 page 11
- ↑ Brisbane Airtrain Transfield
- ↑ "Brisbane Airport rail link to go ahead". Ministerial Media Statements. 11 February 1999. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012.
- ↑ Airtrain set for sale to British pension fund for $109 m The Courier-Mail 22 December 2012
- ↑ UK pension scheme buys Brisbane railway Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Money Management 27 March 2013