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Pacific National

March 13, 2023

Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses.

Pacific National Pty Ltd
NR103 at Spotswood in August 2005
TypePrivate company
IndustryRail transport
PredecessorFreightCorp
National Rail
FoundedFebruary 2002
Headquarters
Sydney
,
Australia
Area served
Mainland Australia
ServicesRail haulage services
Revenue A$2,378 million (June 2017)
A$443 million (June 2017)
A$260 million (June 2017)
Total assets A$5,220 million (June 2017)
596 locomotives and 12,875 wagons (June 2012)
Total equity A$1,274 million (June 2017)
OwnerGlobal Infrastructure Partners, CPP Investment Board, China Investment Corporation, GIC Private Limited and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
Number of employees
approx. 4,000
DivisionsBulk, Coal, Intermodal and Steel
Websitewww.pacificnational.com.au

History

 
NR16 hauling The Overland at North Shore in November 2008

In February 2002, National Rail's freight operations and rollingstock (owned by the Federal, New South Wales and Victorian Governments) were combined with FreightCorp (owned by the New South Wales Government)[1] and sold to a joint venture between Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings as Pacific National.[2]

In February 2004, Pacific National purchased Australian Transport Network, operator of ATN Access and AN Tasrail.[3][4] In August 2004, Pacific National purchased Freight Australia, giving Pacific National control of the Victorian non-urban rail track, excluding the interstate network which is controlled by the Australian Rail Track Corporation.[5]

 
Pacific National train departing from Bathurst, February 2009

As part of the sale conditions, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission attached special conditions to the sale to ensure competition in the rail freight industry.[6] The company was required to provide a 'starter pack' of locomotives, wagons, train paths, and freight terminals for a third party rail operator on the east-west route across the Nullarbor Plain. To fulfill this, Pacific National sold nine refurbished G class locomotives to competitor SCT Logistics to allow it to operate its own services.[7]

In March 2005, Pacific National Queensland became the first non-Queensland Rail narrow gauge commercial rail operation in Queensland, with the commencement of container services between Brisbane and Cairns.[8][9]

In November 2006, Pacific National entered into an agreement to sell the remainder of its Victorian rail lease of the network back to the Victorian Government.[10] The sale was completed in May 2007, with the government owned V/Line taking over management of the track.[11]

In 2005, Toll Holdings launched a hostile takeover bid for its joint venture partner Patrick Corporation which was successful giving Toll Holdings 100% ownership of Pacific National.[12] In 2007, Toll Holdings was restructured into two separately ASX listed companies: Toll Holdings and Asciano Limited. As part of this restructure, Pacific National became a wholly owned subsidiary of Asciano Limited.[13]

In 2009, Pacific National Queensland further expanded their narrow gauge operations, entering the export coal market dominated by incumbent Queensland Rail.[14]

In 2016, Asciano agreed to sell Pacific National to Australian Logistics Acquisition Investments Pty Limited, a consortium of Global Infrastructure Partners, CPP Investment Board, China Investment Corporation, GIC Private Limited and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation.[15] The transfer was completed on 19 August 2016.[16]

Controversy

Tasmania 2005

In September 2005, Pacific National angered the Tasmanian State and Australian Federal Governments when it threatened to withdraw all services unless the governments paid a $100 million subsidy.[17] Initially the governments refused to act on the issue claiming they would not be "held to mercy" by Pacific National, owned by Toll and Patrick Corporation, "which are extremely profitable multi-national companies". However, state infrastructure minister Bryan Green and federal counterpart transport minister Warren Truss announced a $120 million rescue package.[18]

In May 2007, the Tasmanian Government, the Federal Government and Pacific National came to an agreement regarding the funding, ownership and operation of the Tasmanian railway network; with the Tasmanian Government acquiring the railway infrastructure previously leased to Pacific National, who would continue to provide above rail services on the network.[19] In September 2009, the Tasmanian Government purchased the Tasmanian rail business, with rail infrastructure and railway operations to be maintained, managed and owned by a new TasRail.[20]

Rural services 2007

In December 2007, Pacific National announced plans to sell or close its grain transport and Portlink rural container business operations in Victoria, selling or closing Patrick's intermodal freight business in Tasmania, and downsizing to a bare minimum Pacific National's grain operations across New South Wales.[21] The decision was criticised as it forced grain growers to use higher cost road transport to transport the annual grain harvest from rural silos to the ports.[22] The decision has seen many commentators accuse Pacific National of acquiring the operations of Freight Australia in 2004 only for the purposes of asset stripping and eliminating competition in rail freight.[23]

In 2008, the company declined to sell wagons which had reached the end of their useful life to other Australian rail operators, indicating that the wagons would be scrapped or exported to Saudi Arabia.[24]

The container freight service to Horsham, Victoria was almost cancelled in April 2008 but was given a three-month reprieve by the company.[25][26] In July 2008, the service was taken over by QR National and later Qube.[27]

Operations

Pacific National operates in all mainland states and territories. As of June 2012, the company operates 596 locomotives and 12,875 wagons.[28][29] Services include bulk freight (coal, grain, steel, ore), intermodal containers (domestic and import-export), and specialised services such as 'hook and pull' for long-distance passenger trains.

The Pacific National steel contract was renewed with BlueScope and OneSteel in 2006 for $1bn, making it the largest ever freight rail contract in Australia. The deal involves haulage of about 3 million tonnes of steel over seven years.[30] Pacific National has intermodal freight facilities at the Brisbane Freight Terminal in Queensland, the Melbourne Freight Terminal in Victoria, the Sydney Freight Terminal in New South Wales, the Adelaide Freight Terminal in South Australia and the Kewdale Freight Terminal in Western Australia.

Current locomotive fleet

Class Image Type Gauge Top speed
(km/h) 		Built Number Notes
Rural and Bulk Division
48   Diesel-electric Standard 115 1959-1970 48 Ex FreightCorp. 15 stored.
80   Diesel-electric Standard 115 1979-1983 20 Ex FreightCorp. 12 stored.
81   Diesel-electric Standard 115 1982-1991 83 Ex FreightCorp
830 Diesel-electric 115 1960-1963 3 Ex Australian Transport Network. All stored.
A Diesel-electric Broad 115 1984 7 Ex Freight Australia. 6 Scrapped (71, 77, 79, 81, 83 and 85) and 1 (78) Stored as of 10 April 2020.
G   Diesel-electric Broad, Standard 115 1985-1989 20 Ex National Rail Corporation and Freight Australia. 9 sold to SCT Logistics in 2007.
H   Diesel-electric Broad 100 1968 2 Ex Freight Australia. 1 stored. 3 sold to Ettamogah Rail Hub in 2015.
P Diesel-electric Broad 100 1985 5 Ex Freight Australia. All stored.
PL Diesel-electric Standard 115 1999-2001 1 Ex FreightCorp. 1 stored.
S   Diesel-electric Broad, Standard 115 1957 3 Ex Freight Australia. All stored.
T Diesel-electric Broad, Standard 100 1964-1968 5
X   Diesel-electric Broad, Standard 115 1966-1976 21 Ex Freight Australia. 4 stored.
XR   Diesel-electric Broad, Standard 115 2002-2006 9 6 ex Freight Australia, 3 built in-house.
Y Diesel-electric Broad, Standard 65 1963-1968 11 Ex Freight Australia. 1 stored.
RT Diesel mechanical Broad, Standard 15 1957-1969 22 Ex Freight Australia. 4 stored.
Intermodal Division
93   Diesel-electric Standard 115 2012-2020 24
AN   Diesel-electric Standard 115 1992-1993 10 Ex National Rail Corporation.
BL   Diesel-electric Standard, Broad 115 1983-1984 10 Ex National Rail Corporation.
DL   Diesel-electric Standard 115 1988-1990 14 Ex National Rail Corporation. 3 stored.
NR   Diesel-electric Standard 115 1996-1999 119 Ex National Rail Corporation.
LDP   Diesel-electric Standard 115 2009-2010 9 LDP001-LDP009 Sold to Pacific National.
Coal Division
82   Diesel-electric Standard 115 1994-1995 55 Ex FreightCorp.
90   Diesel-electric Standard 80 1994-2005 35 Ex FreightCorp.
92   Diesel-electric Standard 115 2008-2009 15 Ex FreightCorp.
D16 Diesel-electric Standard 35 1959-1964 5 Ex BlueScope. 3 stored.
D35 Diesel-electric Standard 50 1975 1 Ex BlueScope.
PB   Hybrid Standard 80 2014- 1 In service
TT   Diesel-electric Standard 115 2009-2012 40
Pacific National Queensland
71 Electric Narrow 80 2009-2011 42
83 Diesel-electric Narrow 100 2008-2013 52 8347-8352 entered service in 2018 ex Downer EDi.
88 Diesel-electric Narrow 100 2014 5
PN   Diesel-electric Narrow 100 2005 13
PH Diesel-electric Narrow 100 2014 3

In addition, Pacific National leases locomotives from CFCL Australia and operates three WH class locomotives on behalf of Whitehaven Coal.

Former fleet

Class Image Type Gauge Top speed
(km/h) 		Built Number Notes
45 Diesel-electric Standard 115 1962 2 Ex Patrick Corporation. Both scrapped.
MKA Diesel-electric Narrow 80 1967-1972 3 Purchased from Malaysia. Used in Queensland 2004-2006. Transferred to Pacific National Tasmania. Sold to TasRail.
L Diesel-electric Standard 137 1967-69, 1972-73 2 Ex ATN Access. Both scrapped.
V Diesel-electric Standard 115 2002 1 Ex Freight Australia. Sold to One Rail Australia 5/2021.[31]

All Pacific National Tasmania locomotives were sold to TasRail in 2009.

References

  1. ^ "FreightCorp for sale with National Rail" Railway Digest October 2000 page 17
  2. ^ Freightcorp and National Rail Corporation sold to National Rail Consortium for one billion dollars ABC News 31 January 2002
  3. ^ Acquirer: Pacific National Pty Ltd; Target: Australian Transport Network Ltd 31 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Australian Competition & Consumer Competition 30 March 2004
  4. ^ Re: Pacific National - Australian Transport Network Ltd 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Toll Group 26 February 2004
  5. ^ Victorian Government grants consent to Pacific National acquisition of Freight Australia 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Toll Group 16 August 2004
  6. ^ Sydney Morning Herald: 'ACCC won't oppose Freight Australia takeover' - 2 July 2004
  7. ^ "Toll boss bows to ACCC pressure" Courier Mail 13 December 2005
  8. ^ . www.pacificnational.com.au. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  9. ^ Jenny Woodward (11 March 2005). "Making Tracks". Stateline Queensland. www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  10. ^ Pacific National sells Victorian rail network to Government 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Toll Group 1 November 2006
  11. ^ Minister for Public Transport: "Rail Buy Back Deal Complete" 7 May 2007 7 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Game over: Toll takes Patrick Sydney Morning Herald 14 April 2006
  13. ^ "Toll Holdings Restructure". Toll Holdings. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 2 October 2007.
  14. ^ Jennifer Perry (20 May 2009). . Rail Express. www.railexpress.com.au. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  15. ^ "Pacific National sold to international pension funds". International Railway Journal. 15 March 2016.
  16. ^ "Asciano completes Pacific National ownership deal". International Railway Journal. 23 August 2016.
  17. ^ . ninemsn. 29 September 2005. Archived from the original on 18 November 2005. Retrieved 2 November 2006.
  18. ^ Tas govt wins control of rail network The Age 12 December 2005
  19. ^ (PDF). National Competition Council. 1 May 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  20. ^ Rail Sale Agreement Finalised 11 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Asciano 7 September 2009
  21. ^ "Pacific National to sell or close rail freight business". ABC News website. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  22. ^ Easdown, Geoff (12 December 2007). "Asciano delivers grain haulage shock to farmers". Herald and Weekly Times website. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  23. ^ "Freight Australia Exiting". Railpage Australia forums. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  24. ^ Philip Hopkins (21 March 2008). . The Age. business.theage.com.au. Archived from the original on 25 June 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2008.
  25. ^ "Rail freight woes spark crisis of confidence". ABC News. www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
  26. ^ "Three month extension for Wimmera rail freight services". ABC News. www.abc.net.au. 24 April 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
  27. ^ . Wimmera Mail Times. yourguide.com.au. 28 July 2008. Archived from the original on 29 July 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
  28. ^ Pacific National Coal Asciano
  29. ^ Pacific National Rail Asciano
  30. ^ "PacNat wins $1bn freight deal". news.com.au. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 18 December 2006.
  31. ^ "V544 to One Rail (Page 1) / Locomotives and Rolling Stock".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

Bibliography

  • Avery, Rod (2006). Freight Across the Nation: The Australian Superfreighter Experience. Brisbane: Copyright Publishing Co. ISBN 1876344474.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pacific National.
  • Pacific National website
  • Railpage Organisations
  • Railpage - Pacific National Locomotives

March 13, 2023
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Pacific National is one of Australia s largest rail freight businesses Pacific National Pty LtdNR103 at Spotswood in August 2005TypePrivate companyIndustryRail transportPredecessorFreightCorpNational RailFoundedFebruary 2002HeadquartersSydney AustraliaArea servedMainland AustraliaServicesRail haulage servicesRevenueA 2 378 million June 2017 Operating incomeA 443 million June 2017 Net incomeA 260 million June 2017 Total assetsA 5 220 million June 2017 596 locomotives and 12 875 wagons June 2012 Total equityA 1 274 million June 2017 OwnerGlobal Infrastructure Partners CPP Investment Board China Investment Corporation GIC Private Limited and British Columbia Investment Management CorporationNumber of employeesapprox 4 000DivisionsBulk Coal Intermodal and SteelWebsitewww wbr pacificnational wbr com wbr au Contents 1 History 2 Controversy 2 1 Tasmania 2005 2 2 Rural services 2007 3 Operations 4 Current locomotive fleet 5 Former fleet 6 References 6 1 Bibliography 7 External linksHistory Edit NR16 hauling The Overland at North Shore in November 2008 In February 2002 National Rail s freight operations and rollingstock owned by the Federal New South Wales and Victorian Governments were combined with FreightCorp owned by the New South Wales Government 1 and sold to a joint venture between Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings as Pacific National 2 In February 2004 Pacific National purchased Australian Transport Network operator of ATN Access and AN Tasrail 3 4 In August 2004 Pacific National purchased Freight Australia giving Pacific National control of the Victorian non urban rail track excluding the interstate network which is controlled by the Australian Rail Track Corporation 5 Pacific National train departing from Bathurst February 2009 As part of the sale conditions the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission attached special conditions to the sale to ensure competition in the rail freight industry 6 The company was required to provide a starter pack of locomotives wagons train paths and freight terminals for a third party rail operator on the east west route across the Nullarbor Plain To fulfill this Pacific National sold nine refurbished G class locomotives to competitor SCT Logistics to allow it to operate its own services 7 In March 2005 Pacific National Queensland became the first non Queensland Rail narrow gauge commercial rail operation in Queensland with the commencement of container services between Brisbane and Cairns 8 9 In November 2006 Pacific National entered into an agreement to sell the remainder of its Victorian rail lease of the network back to the Victorian Government 10 The sale was completed in May 2007 with the government owned V Line taking over management of the track 11 In 2005 Toll Holdings launched a hostile takeover bid for its joint venture partner Patrick Corporation which was successful giving Toll Holdings 100 ownership of Pacific National 12 In 2007 Toll Holdings was restructured into two separately ASX listed companies Toll Holdings and Asciano Limited As part of this restructure Pacific National became a wholly owned subsidiary of Asciano Limited 13 In 2009 Pacific National Queensland further expanded their narrow gauge operations entering the export coal market dominated by incumbent Queensland Rail 14 In 2016 Asciano agreed to sell Pacific National to Australian Logistics Acquisition Investments Pty Limited a consortium of Global Infrastructure Partners CPP Investment Board China Investment Corporation GIC Private Limited and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation 15 The transfer was completed on 19 August 2016 16 Controversy EditTasmania 2005 Edit In September 2005 Pacific National angered the Tasmanian State and Australian Federal Governments when it threatened to withdraw all services unless the governments paid a 100 million subsidy 17 Initially the governments refused to act on the issue claiming they would not be held to mercy by Pacific National owned by Toll and Patrick Corporation which are extremely profitable multi national companies However state infrastructure minister Bryan Green and federal counterpart transport minister Warren Truss announced a 120 million rescue package 18 In May 2007 the Tasmanian Government the Federal Government and Pacific National came to an agreement regarding the funding ownership and operation of the Tasmanian railway network with the Tasmanian Government acquiring the railway infrastructure previously leased to Pacific National who would continue to provide above rail services on the network 19 In September 2009 the Tasmanian Government purchased the Tasmanian rail business with rail infrastructure and railway operations to be maintained managed and owned by a new TasRail 20 Rural services 2007 Edit In December 2007 Pacific National announced plans to sell or close its grain transport and Portlink rural container business operations in Victoria selling or closing Patrick s intermodal freight business in Tasmania and downsizing to a bare minimum Pacific National s grain operations across New South Wales 21 The decision was criticised as it forced grain growers to use higher cost road transport to transport the annual grain harvest from rural silos to the ports 22 The decision has seen many commentators accuse Pacific National of acquiring the operations of Freight Australia in 2004 only for the purposes of asset stripping and eliminating competition in rail freight 23 In 2008 the company declined to sell wagons which had reached the end of their useful life to other Australian rail operators indicating that the wagons would be scrapped or exported to Saudi Arabia 24 The container freight service to Horsham Victoria was almost cancelled in April 2008 but was given a three month reprieve by the company 25 26 In July 2008 the service was taken over by QR National and later Qube 27 Operations EditPacific National operates in all mainland states and territories As of June 2012 the company operates 596 locomotives and 12 875 wagons 28 29 Services include bulk freight coal grain steel ore intermodal containers domestic and import export and specialised services such as hook and pull for long distance passenger trains The Pacific National steel contract was renewed with BlueScope and OneSteel in 2006 for 1bn making it the largest ever freight rail contract in Australia The deal involves haulage of about 3 million tonnes of steel over seven years 30 Pacific National has intermodal freight facilities at the Brisbane Freight Terminal in Queensland the Melbourne Freight Terminal in Victoria the Sydney Freight Terminal in New South Wales the Adelaide Freight Terminal in South Australia and the Kewdale Freight Terminal in Western Australia Current locomotive fleet EditClass Image Type Gauge Top speed km h Built Number NotesRural and Bulk Division48 Diesel electric Standard 115 1959 1970 48 Ex FreightCorp 15 stored 80 Diesel electric Standard 115 1979 1983 20 Ex FreightCorp 12 stored 81 Diesel electric Standard 115 1982 1991 83 Ex FreightCorp830 Diesel electric 115 1960 1963 3 Ex Australian Transport Network All stored A Diesel electric Broad 115 1984 7 Ex Freight Australia 6 Scrapped 71 77 79 81 83 and 85 and 1 78 Stored as of 10 April 2020 G Diesel electric Broad Standard 115 1985 1989 20 Ex National Rail Corporation and Freight Australia 9 sold to SCT Logistics in 2007 H Diesel electric Broad 100 1968 2 Ex Freight Australia 1 stored 3 sold to Ettamogah Rail Hub in 2015 P Diesel electric Broad 100 1985 5 Ex Freight Australia All stored PL Diesel electric Standard 115 1999 2001 1 Ex FreightCorp 1 stored S Diesel electric Broad Standard 115 1957 3 Ex Freight Australia All stored T Diesel electric Broad Standard 100 1964 1968 5X Diesel electric Broad Standard 115 1966 1976 21 Ex Freight Australia 4 stored XR Diesel electric Broad Standard 115 2002 2006 9 6 ex Freight Australia 3 built in house Y Diesel electric Broad Standard 65 1963 1968 11 Ex Freight Australia 1 stored RT Diesel mechanical Broad Standard 15 1957 1969 22 Ex Freight Australia 4 stored Intermodal Division93 Diesel electric Standard 115 2012 2020 24AN Diesel electric Standard 115 1992 1993 10 Ex National Rail Corporation BL Diesel electric Standard Broad 115 1983 1984 10 Ex National Rail Corporation DL Diesel electric Standard 115 1988 1990 14 Ex National Rail Corporation 3 stored NR Diesel electric Standard 115 1996 1999 119 Ex National Rail Corporation LDP Diesel electric Standard 115 2009 2010 9 LDP001 LDP009 Sold to Pacific National Coal Division82 Diesel electric Standard 115 1994 1995 55 Ex FreightCorp 90 Diesel electric Standard 80 1994 2005 35 Ex FreightCorp 92 Diesel electric Standard 115 2008 2009 15 Ex FreightCorp D16 Diesel electric Standard 35 1959 1964 5 Ex BlueScope 3 stored D35 Diesel electric Standard 50 1975 1 Ex BlueScope PB Hybrid Standard 80 2014 1 In serviceTT Diesel electric Standard 115 2009 2012 40Pacific National Queensland71 Electric Narrow 80 2009 2011 4283 Diesel electric Narrow 100 2008 2013 52 8347 8352 entered service in 2018 ex Downer EDi 88 Diesel electric Narrow 100 2014 5PN Diesel electric Narrow 100 2005 13PH Diesel electric Narrow 100 2014 3In addition Pacific National leases locomotives from CFCL Australia and operates three WH class locomotives on behalf of Whitehaven Coal Former fleet EditClass Image Type Gauge Top speed km h Built Number Notes45 Diesel electric Standard 115 1962 2 Ex Patrick Corporation Both scrapped MKA Diesel electric Narrow 80 1967 1972 3 Purchased from Malaysia Used in Queensland 2004 2006 Transferred to Pacific National Tasmania Sold to TasRail L Diesel electric Standard 137 1967 69 1972 73 2 Ex ATN Access Both scrapped V Diesel electric Standard 115 2002 1 Ex Freight Australia Sold to One Rail Australia 5 2021 31 All Pacific National Tasmania locomotives were sold to TasRail in 2009 References Edit FreightCorp for sale with National Rail Railway Digest October 2000 page 17 Freightcorp and National Rail Corporation sold to National Rail Consortium for one billion dollars ABC News 31 January 2002 Acquirer Pacific National Pty Ltd Target Australian Transport Network Ltd Archived 31 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Australian Competition amp Consumer Competition 30 March 2004 Re Pacific National Australian Transport Network Ltd Archived 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Toll Group 26 February 2004 Victorian Government grants consent to Pacific National acquisition of Freight Australia Archived 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Toll Group 16 August 2004 Sydney Morning Herald ACCC won t oppose Freight Australia takeover 2 July 2004 Toll boss bows to ACCC pressure Courier Mail 13 December 2005 Pacific National Queensland www pacificnational com au Archived from the original on 23 March 2010 Retrieved 22 June 2010 Jenny Woodward 11 March 2005 Making Tracks Stateline Queensland www abc net au Retrieved 22 June 2010 Pacific National sells Victorian rail network to Government Archived 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Toll Group 1 November 2006 Minister for Public Transport Rail Buy Back Deal Complete 7 May 2007 Archived 7 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Game over Toll takes Patrick Sydney Morning Herald 14 April 2006 Toll Holdings Restructure Toll Holdings Archived from the original on 30 August 2007 Retrieved 2 October 2007 Jennifer Perry 20 May 2009 PN commences QLD coal haulage operations Rail Express www railexpress com au Archived from the original on 1 October 2009 Retrieved 22 June 2010 Pacific National sold to international pension funds International Railway Journal 15 March 2016 Asciano completes Pacific National ownership deal International Railway Journal 23 August 2016 Govt signs off on Tassie rail package ninemsn 29 September 2005 Archived from the original on 18 November 2005 Retrieved 2 November 2006 Tas govt wins control of rail network The Age 12 December 2005 Tasmanian Railway Network Declaration Application PDF National Competition Council 1 May 2007 Archived from the original PDF on 16 February 2011 Retrieved 22 June 2010 Rail Sale Agreement Finalised Archived 11 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Asciano 7 September 2009 Pacific National to sell or close rail freight business ABC News website 12 December 2007 Retrieved 17 December 2007 Easdown Geoff 12 December 2007 Asciano delivers grain haulage shock to farmers Herald and Weekly Times website Retrieved 17 December 2007 Freight Australia Exiting Railpage Australia forums 12 December 2007 Retrieved 17 December 2007 Philip Hopkins 21 March 2008 Off the rails The Age business theage com au Archived from the original on 25 June 2008 Retrieved 22 June 2008 Rail freight woes spark crisis of confidence ABC News www abc net au Retrieved 16 July 2008 Three month extension for Wimmera rail freight services ABC News www abc net au 24 April 2008 Retrieved 16 July 2008 Rail to roll on Wimmera Mail Times yourguide com au 28 July 2008 Archived from the original on 29 July 2008 Retrieved 30 July 2008 Pacific National Coal Asciano Pacific National Rail Asciano PacNat wins 1bn freight deal news com au 18 December 2006 Retrieved 18 December 2006 V544 to One Rail Page 1 Locomotives and Rolling Stock a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Bibliography Edit Avery Rod 2006 Freight Across the Nation The Australian Superfreighter Experience Brisbane Copyright Publishing Co ISBN 1876344474 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pacific National Pacific National website Asciano website Railpage Organisations Railpage Pacific National Locomotives Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pacific National amp oldid 1143687468, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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