Rail Corporation New South Wales

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Rail Corporation New South Wales

Type	Government-owned corporation
Founded	1 January 2004
Headquarters	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Area served	New South Wales
Key people	Rob Mason, CEO
Industry	Rail transport
Employees	13,260
Subsidiaries	CityRail, CountryLink
Website	www.railcorp.info

Rail Corporation New South Wales (RailCorp) is a government-owned corporation of the New South Wales government. RailCorp owns, operates and maintains the Sydney suburban and interurban rail network which is marketed under the CityRail brand; in addition to operating rural passenger services under the CountryLink brand.^[1] It also leases NSW interstate and Hunter Valley trackage to Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC), who also have an agreement with RailCorp to manage various country branch lines.^[2] It also provides freight operators with access to the rails of the Sydney metropolitan area.

Rail Corporation New South Wales was formed on 1 January 2004 by the merger of the former State Rail Authority and the greater metropolitan rail network functions of the Rail Infrastructure Corporation. The current acting Chief Executive Officer of RailCorp is Rob Mason.^[3]

1 2008 Audit
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 2008 Audit

A 2008 leaked audit report revealed that incompetent managers at RailCorp were "putting the lives of NSW train passengers at risk". ^[4]

The audit shows more than 50 per cent of RailCorp areas under audit, 63 out of 117 areas, are deemed high risk, with the other 54 areas regarded as medium risk.