Talk:Australian National Railways Commission
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[edit] Ownership of railway
The main railways carrying interstate traffic were not hived off to NR - they were put into (I think) Network Access, part of AN, which then became ARTC. (Sulzer55 (talk) 10:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC))
- From ARTC - http://www.artc.com.au/Content.aspx?p=32:
- Australian National was also being readied for privatisation and to accommodate the open access requirements of competition policy and partially as a forerunner to privatisation, a separate business unit known as AN Track Access was set up within AN to administer access to the interstate track under AN control.
- With the commencement of operation of the Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd, the new company acquired the old AN interstate standard gauge track and a lease management of the Victorian interstate standard gauge