National Rail Corporation

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The National Rail Corporation was a rail operator in Australia. The Australian Government, New South Wales and Victoria established the National Rail Corporation (NR) in 1992. The great majority of its shares were Federally owned, reflecting the fact that the lion's share of assets transferred to it consisted of the interstate rail track of the Australian National Rail Commission (AN). It also took over AN's interstate rail freight operations and commenced operations over the interstate network to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Alice Springs. In 2001, NR's freight operations and rolling stock were combined with the New South Wales Government-owned FreightCorp and sold to Toll Holdings and Patrick Corporation as Pacific National.

The railway infrastructure, owned by Australian National's "Track Access", was transferred to the Federal Government-owned Australian Rail Track Corporation in 1998^[1]. The Tarcoola to Alice Springs line was transferred to the AdRail Consortium as part of a deal to build the railway between Alice Springs and Darwin in 2000.

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1. ^ http://artc.com.au/about/history.htm accessed 16 March 2008

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