Aurizon Holdings Limited is a freight rail transport company in Australia, formerly named QR National Limited and branded QR National. In 2015, it was the world's largest rail transporter of coal from mine to port. Formerly a Queensland Government-owned company, it was privatised and floated on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in November 2010. The company was originally established in 2004–05 when the coal, bulk, and container transport divisions from Queensland Rail were brought under one banner as QR National.
Image: 5002 leads 5025 past Pothana Lane, 2016
Image: QR National 5021
Image: QR National 6000 class number 2 end
Image: Genesee & Wyoming ALF21
Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Owned by the Queensland Government, it operates local and long-distance passenger services, as well as owning and maintaining rolling stock and approximately 6,600 kilometres (4,101 mi) of track and related infrastructure.
An Electric Multiple Unit (left) and a New Generation Rollingstock (right) – Queensland Rail's oldest and newest operational trains – at Altandi, December 2018
2470 class at Corinda in the original diesel livery in February 1998
EMU01 at Ferny Grove station on the first electric service in Brisbane in November 1979
EMU03 at Sunshine in October 2016
