11-701: The North Coast Overnight Express was an Australian passenger train operated by the State Rail Authority from July 1982 until November 1988. It operated from Sydney via the North Coast line to Murwillumbah . It was formed of air-conditioned HUB / RUB stock but despite being a night train, conveyed no sleeping accommodation. Its headcode was NL5/NL6. In October 1985, it was truncated to Grafton and ceased operating in November 1988. State Rail Authority The State Rail Authority ,
22-745: A blue and yellow scheme. On 1 July 1996, the State Rail Authority was restructured into four distinct entities by the Transport Administration Amendment (Rail Corporatisation and Restructuring) Act 1996 to separate infrastructure from operations as required by the Competition Policy Reform Act 1995 . This was part of the process of moving to an open access regime. The entities were: Another restructure in February 1998 saw
33-637: A former statutory authority of the Government of New South Wales , operated and maintained railways in the Australian state of New South Wales from July 1980 until December 2003. The Transport Authorities Act 1980 separated the functions of the Public Transport Commission (formerly responsible for all public transport) and established the State Rail Authority. The State Rail Authority assumed responsibility for trains, while
44-660: The Western Mail to Dubbo and the Canberra Monaro Express to Cooma all ceased. After receiving the Booz Allen Hamilton report, the government released its response in July 1989 under the title CountryLink 2000 . It was announced the number of staff employed on country rail operations would fall from 18,000 to 10,000, including the withdrawal of staff from 94 country railway stations and
55-620: The Nyngan – Bourke , Queanbeyan – Cooma and Glen Innes – Wallangarra lines would close. Several country passenger services ceased over the next few years including the Silver City Comet , Northern Tablelands Express , Canberra XPT , Brisbane Limited , Pacific Coast Motorail , South Coast Daylight Express , Intercapital Daylight and Sydney/Melbourne Express . These were replaced either by XPT sets, EMU/DMU sets or coaches. Coach services which had been operated by
66-622: The Urban Transit Authority responsibility for buses and ferries. In July 1982 a new colour scheme developed by Phil Belbin of red, yellow, orange and white was unveiled, which was commonly referred to as the "candy colours". The L7 logo used by the Public Transport Commission was retained, albeit with the dark and light blue replaced with red and orange. Around this time, they also gave playing cards and soap to passengers. During its tenure
77-528: The State Rail Authority completed a number of electrification projects: The State Rail Authority introduced new 80 Class , 81 Class and 86 Class locomotives used on both freight and country passenger services, K set , C set , Tangara , Millennium and V set double deck electric passenger trains and the XPT . It also placed an order for the 82 Class and 90 Class locomotives that were delivered to FreightRail in 1994. A fleet of Denning and Scania coaches
88-569: The State Rail Authority split into four operating divisions: In January 2001, the Rail Access Corporation and Railway Services Authority were merged into the Rail Infrastructure Corporation that took responsibility for ownership and maintenance of the infrastructure. In January 2004, after much criticism and public perceptions of blame shifting between units for operational failings, RailCorp
99-412: The State Rail Authority's own fleet were contracted out to private operators. The report had recommended closing all country passenger services as they were judged unviable, however this was not politically acceptable. The State Rail Authority was divided into business units: CityRail adopted a blue and yellow colour scheme including L7 logo, CountryLink a blue, white and grey scheme and FreightRail
110-421: Was formed taking over the passenger train operations from the residual State Rail Authority (CityRail and CountryLink) and responsibility for maintaining the greater metropolitan network from the Rail Infrastructure Corporation . By June 2006 much of the operational function had been transferred, with the State Rail Authority in the process of being wound down. From September 1981 until June 1989, State Wide
121-734: Was purchased to replace withdrawn country rail services. Following the election of the Greiner State Government in March 1988, consultants Booz Allen Hamilton were commissioned to prepare a report into NSW rail services. In November 1988, before the report was complete, the North Coast Overnight Express to Grafton , the Northern Mail to Moree and Tenterfield , the Bathurst day train,
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