The Australian National Railways Commission was a railway operator owned by the Australian Government that existed from 1975 until 1998. It traded as Australian National Railways in its early years, b
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
Commonwealth Railways was a railway operator established in 1917 by the Australian Government to administer the Trans-Australia and Port Augusta-to-Darwin railways. It was effectively a statutory corp
Australian National Railways Commission
…government. On 1 July 1975, the Australian National Railways Commission took over responsibility for the operations of the federal government owned Commonwealth Railways and branded itself Australian National Railways. The state governments of South Australia and Tasmania, where the railway systems were deeply in debt…
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.
The flat, barren surroundings of Bopeechee, 777 km (483 mi) from Port Augusta, typified most of the Central Australia Railway. Although the railway served as a lifeline for outback communities, for most of the route the land was insufficiently productive to generate profitable traffic.
GM class on the Trans-Australian at Rawlinna in May 1986