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NSW Railway Operators
- 3801 Ltd
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3801 Ltd run charters around NSW, often using preserved steam locos 3801
and 3830.
- ARHS ACT
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The ACT division of the Australian Railway Historic Society is based in
Canberra. They often run tours using their own railway stock, as well as
rail-motor trips on the Michelago Tourist Railway (near Canberra).
- ATN Access
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ATN Access is a subsidiary of ATN (Australian Transport Network) which
has contracted to haul grain in southern NSW.
- Australian Rail Track Corporation
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An organisation charged with running the major interstate links. They
have a lease on certain NSW lines for the next 60 years.
- Australian Railroad Group (ARG)
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The result of the joining of ASR, ANR and AWR. They run a lot of traffic
on the South Coast.
- Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia (CFCLA)
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CFCLA provide wagons and motive power, most notably for Interail (the
Melbourne - Sydney container train) and Grain Corp.
- CityRail
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CityRail is Railcorp's division which looks after non-booked passenger
travel, within Sydney's greater metropolitan area. This extends to
Newcastle and Dungog in the north, Lithgow in the west, and Nowra and
Goulburn to the south.
- Cooma Monaro Railway
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The CMR operates preserved CPH railmotors on part of the old Bombala
line, from Cooma to Chakola.
- CountryLink
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CountryLink looks after booked passenger travel outside the Sydney area,
including interstate travel.
- Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum
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This group has been collection rolling stock for a while with the intent
of running trains over the upper part of the Dorrigo line.
- Freight Australia
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Briefly known as Freight Victoria, Freight Australia used to be the
freight division of V/Line. They work some interstate trains,
and also run on several broad gauge lines in NSW.
- Glenreagh Mountain Railway
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This group intends to run tourist trains over the lower part of the
Dorrigo branch.
- Goulburn Crookwell Heritage Railway
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This group were accredited in November 2001 and will shortly be running
rail trikes at both the top and bottom ends of the Crookwell branch.
- Great Southern Railway (GSR)
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GSR are the new operators of the famous Indian-Pacific train, running
between Sydney and Perth.
- Historic Electric Traction
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HET is a group which runs tours using State Rails preserved electric
train fleet.
- Interail Australia
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Interail operates in Northern NSW. It is the result of the purchase of
the Northern Rivers Railroad by Queensland Rail.
They use restored 422 locomotives for much of their work.
- Lachlan Valley Railway
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The LVR is based at Cowra, in the central-west. They run freight and
passenger trains, mainly over the Blayney-Demondrille line and the
Eugowra branch line out to Canowindra.
- Lachlan Valley Railway Freight
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LVRF is the freight wing of the Lachlan Valley Railway.
- New England Railway Incorporated
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This tourist rail society is based at Glen Innes. They have an agreement
to use the Glen Innes yard and the line as far as Stonehenge.
- Oberon Tarana Heritage Railway
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A group working towards the restoration of the Oberon branch, with the
goal of eventually running some tourist traffic over the line.
- Pacific National
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Pacific National is the main freight operator in NSW. It resulted from
the merger of National Rail and FreightCorp.
- Perisher Blue
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Perisher Blue Pty Ltd operate the SkiTube between Bullocks Flat
and Blue Cow Mountain, in the Snowy Mountains.
- Rail Infrastructure Corporation
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In January 2001, the RSA and RAC were merged into the Rail Infrastructure
Corporation.
- Rail Motor Society
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The RMS runs preserved railmotors from its base at Paterson, in the Hunter
Valley.
- Railcorp NSW
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Railcorp is the organisation in charge of NSW railways.
- Railway Transport Museum
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The NSW RTM is based at Thirlmere (south-west of Sydney). They often
run tours around the state.
- Silverton Rail
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A subsidiary of the old Silverton Tramway Company, Silverton Rail are
based in Parkes and provide locos and haulage around NSW, using some
48 and 442 class locos.
- Sydney Electric Train Society
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SETS runs occasionally tours around the Sydney electric network using some
preserved passenger carriages ("red rattlers").
- Tenterfield Railway Station Preservation Society
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This society is now running rail trike services between the Bruxner
Highway crossing (4km north of Tenterfield) to Bluff Rock.
- Tumba Rail
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This group is working on operating on disused Tumbarumba branch. They
have restired Ladysmith station and started running rail trikes on a
portion of the line.
- Zig Zag Railway
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The Zig Zag Railway operates on an abandoned zig-zag railway section near
Lithgow (west of Sydney).
