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The National Rail Corporation was an Australian rail operator established by the Federal, New South Wales and Victoria governments in February 1992. In February 2002 National Rail was sold to a Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings consortium and rebranded Pacific National. ==History== The National Rail Corporation was established in February 1992 after the Federal Government, and State Governments of New South Wales and Victoria agreed to its establishment in July 1991.〔"Freight Corporation approved" ''Railway Digest'' September 1991 page 313〕〔"NRC ready to roll" ''Railway Digest'' February 1992 page 51〕 It took over the running of all interstate services from Australian National, FreightCorp and V/Line. National Rail took over cross-border operations progressively from April 1993 over the interstate network between Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs and Perth. The first National Rail crewed trains ran between Melbourne and Adelaide on 8 November 1993.〔"First National Rail Train Crews" ''Railway Digest'' December 1993 page 516〕 National Rail established four business units, Intermodal, SeaTrain, SteelLink and Trailerail.〔"Around National Rail" ''Railway Digest'' August 1998 page 12〕 Most of National Rail's operations were on the 1435 mm standard gauge. However until the Melbourne-Adelaide railway was converted in June 1995 these services operated on the 1600 mm broad gauge. SteelLink services from Port Kembla to Long Island used to transfer their loads from standard gauge to broad gauge wagons at Albury but this was transferred to Dynon in May 1995.〔"Albury Standard - Broad Gauge Slab Transfer Finishes" ''Railway Digest'' June 1995 page 11〕 From 1998 National Rail was able to compete for intrastate contracts. In June 1999 National Rail began operating blue metal trains from Dunmore to Cooks River.〔"National Rail Holds Steel Traffic and Takes New-to-Rail Local Freight" ''Railway Digest'' April 1999 page 10〕 In August 1999 National Rail began operating iron ore services from Cobar to Newcastle with subcontractor Silverton Rail hauling the trains between Cobar and Narromine.〔"Silverton Rail Update" ''Railway Digest'' October 1999 page 14〕〔"All Change for Cobar ore trains" ''Railway Digest'' March 2000 page 42〕 In November 1999 National Rail began operating limestone services from Marulan to Port Kembla.〔"Life begins as 40!" ''Railway Digest'' January 2000 page 30〕 In early 2000 National Rail commenced operating a contract for Macquarie Generation to haul coal to their Bayswater and Liddell Power Stations in the Hunter Valley.〔"Freight Carriers Move into New Markets" ''Railway Digest'' January 1999 page 9〕 In February 2002 National Rail was combined with the New South Wales Government owned FreightCorp and sold to a Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings consortium and rebranded as Pacific National.〔(Patrick and Toll Consortium complete purchase of National Rail and Freightcorp ) Toll Group 22 February 2002〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Rail Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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