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The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is a federal government owned corporation established in 1997 that owns, leases, maintains and controls the majority of main line standard gauge railway lines on the mainland of Australia, known as the Designated Interstate Rail Network (DIRN).
While railways in some states were briefly operated as private companies, railways of Australia have historically operated as Government instrumentalities. The earlier form of a single state government railway department in each state no longer exists – with complex relationships developed by state and federal government corporations operating in multiple locations and across borders between ...
The Australian Government has provided substantial funding for the upgrading of roads since the 1920s, but it has not regularly funded investment in railways except for its own railway, the Commonwealth Railways, which was established in 1911 to build the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta, and to take ...
The Trans-Australian Railway, opened in 1917, runs from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, crossing the Nullarbor Plain in the process. As the only rail freight corridor between Western Australia and the eastern states , the line is economically and strategically important.
A narrow-gauge sugar cane train in Queensland during 2015. Rail transport in Australia involves a number of narrow-gauge railways.In some states they formed the core statewide network, but in the others they were either a few government branch lines, or privately owned and operated branch lines, often for mining, logging or industrial use.
Train Name Operator Train Endpoints Operated Albany Progress: Western Australian Government Railways: Perth – Albany: 31 May 1961 – 1 December 1978 Albany Weekender: Western Australian Government Railways: Perth – Albany: 7 November 1964 – 1 August 1975 The Alice: State Rail Authority / Australian National: Sydney Central – Alice Springs
The locomotives are badged as Australian National Railways, the entity that took over the operations of both the Commonwealth Railways and the South Australian Railways in 1975. The Central Australia Railway extended from Port Augusta to Alice Springs. Work on the first section of this railway was commenced by the South Australian Railways in ...
The Hamersley & Robe River railway, majority-owned by Rio Tinto, and operated by its subsidiary Pilbara Iron, is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the purpose of carrying iron ore. The network is larger than any other Australian heavy freight rail network in private ownership.