FreightCorp

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title: "FreightCorp" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["defunct-railway-companies-of-australia", "freight-railway-companies-of-australia", "railway-companies-established-in-1989", "railway-companies-disestablished-in-2002", "1989-establishments-in-australia", "2002-disestablishments-in-australia"] description: "Former feight rail operator in New South Wales" topic_path: "geography/australia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreightCorp" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Former feight rail operator in New South Wales ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox government agency"]

Field	Value
agency_name	FreightCorp
type	state-owned corporation
picture	44240 FRBlue broadmeadow loco 1990.jpg
picture_caption	44240 at Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot
formed	16 January 1989
dissolved	31 January 2002
preceding1	State Rail Authority
superseding	Pacific National
jurisdiction	New South Wales
headquarters	Parramatta
minister1_pfo	Minister for Transport
parent_agency	State Rail Authority
keydocument1	Transport Administration Act 1988 (NSW)
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FreightCorp, formally Freight Rail, was a railway operator owned by the Government of New South Wales. It was responsible for intrastate and some interstate railway cargo handling from its foundation in January 1989 until it was privatised in August 2002.

History

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In January 1989, the freight operations of the State Rail Authority were transferred to Freight Rail pursuant to the .

On 1 July 1996, Freight Rail was corporatised. On 24 October 1996, Freight Rail was relaunched as FreightCorp.

On 1 February 2002, along with National Rail, FreightCorp was sold to a joint venture between Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings as Pacific National.

Operations

When established in 1989, Freight Rail was responsible for the operation of all rail freight services in New South Wales. It was also responsible for providing locomotives to haul passenger services for CityRail and CountryLink. Following the opening up of the New South Wales network to other operators, it began to face competition from other operators. Interstate services were transferred to National Rail in the mid-1990s. In 1999, it began to operate coal trains in South Australia on the Leigh Creek to Stirling North line to the Northern Power Station, Port Augusta.

Fleet

Freight Rail inherited all of the State Rail Authority's locomotive fleet. In February 1992, it awarded contracts for fifty-eight 82 class and twenty-nine 90 class locomotives. These allowed it to withdraw most of the 422, 44, 442, 45 and 49 class locomotives. After experimenting with a green and yellow livery, a dark blue, yellow and white livery was introduced in 1991.

References

References

1. [http://search.records.nsw.gov.au/agencies/1633 Freight Rail] {{Webarchive. link. (2 March 2014 New South Wales State Records)
2. "Freight Rail Corporation's Organisational Structure" ''[[Railway Digest]]'' September 1996 page 10
3. [http://search.records.nsw.gov.au/agencies/1079 FreightCorp] {{Webarchive. link. (22 February 2014 New South Wales State Records)
4. "FreightCorp Launched" ''Railway Digest'' November 1996 page 7
5. "FreightCorp for sale with National Rail" ''Railway Digest'' October 2000 page 17
6. [http://www.abc.net.au/rural/sa/stories/s470529.htm Freightcorp and National Rail Corporation sold to National Rail Consortium for one billion dollars] ''[[ABC News (Australia). ABC News]]'' 31 January 2002
7. "Freight Carriers Move into New Markets" ''Railway Digest'' January 1999 page 9

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