Australian National Railways Commission
The Australian National Railways Commission was an agency of the Government of Australia that was a railway operator between 1975 and 1998. It traded as Australian National Railways (ANR) in its early years, before being rebranded as Australian National. AN was widely used from 1980, the logotype being registered as a trade mark.
An 830 class locomotive in the Australian National colour scheme at Mount Gambier in 1983
GM class and 830 class at Mount Gambier in April 1995
Genesee & Wyoming Australia GM class in Australian National livery in April 2008
Pacific National AN class in Australian National livery in Newport in May 2008
The Commonwealth Railways were established in 1917 by the Government of Australia with the Commonwealth Railways Act to administer the Trans-Australia and Port Augusta to Darwin railways. In 1975, all assets were acquired by the Australian National Railways Commission, branded as Australian National Railways and subsequently Australian National, trademarked as AN.
Preserved Commonwealth Railways GM class diesel locomotive at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
Preserved NSU class narrow-gauge diesel-electric locomotive at the Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum, Alice Springs, in 2006. As with the NT class, these locomotives operated on both the North Australia Railway and the Central Australia Railway.
Ex-Commonwealth Railways NT class locomotives NT67 and NT76 loading a bulk wheat train at Wirrabara in 1987 on the now-abandoned Gladstone–Wilmington narrow-gauge railway line of the former South Australian Railways. 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.
Preserved carriage from the narrow-gauge Ghan in Alice Springs in February 2009
