Not to be confused with AN Tasrail, a predecessor to the current company.
This article is about the current state government-operated company. For the original state government-owned company, see Tasmanian Government Railways.
A TasRail container train led by a TR Class locomotive in January 2016
Overview
Headquarters
Launceston
Locale
Tasmania, Australia
Dates of operation
2009–present
Predecessor
AN Tasrail
Technical
Track gauge
1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Length
843 km (523.82 mi)
Other
Website
www.tasrail.com.au
TasRail (legal name Tasmanian Railway Pty Limited)[1] is a Tasmanian Government state-owned enterprise that has operated the mainline railways in Tasmania since September 2009. It operates only freight services.
^Tasmanian Railway Pty Ltd Australian Securities & Investments Commission
under the Rail Company Act 2009, in September 2009 the Tasmanian Government purchased the AN Tasrail business from Pacific National. TasRail combined the...
a class of diesel locomotives built by Progress Rail, Patterson, Georgia, United States for TasRail in 2013–2014. They are currently the main Tasmanian...
Look up Tas, tas, TAS, tās, tås, taş, -tas, t'as, or Tas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. TAS, Tas, tas, or TAs may refer to: Tasmania, Australia, an...
National in 2004 and the AN Tasrail subsidiary was later acquired by the Tasmanian Government in 2009 to become TasRail. Until March 1978, the Tasmanian...
Australian Transport Network, Tranz Rail invested in Tasmanian rail operator TasRail in 1997. From 1998, Tranz Rail sold twelve members of its DQ class...
new State-owned rail company, Tasmanian Railway Pty Ltd trading as TasRail. Tasrail has operated the mainline railways in Tasmania since 2009 and provides...
Other rail freight operators include: Bowmans Rail East Coast Rail Southern Shorthaul Railroad TasRail Licensing of personnel with nationally recognised...
Australia. In Tasmania, TasRail operates a short-haul narrow gauge freight system, that carries inter-modal and bulk mining goods. TasRail is government-owned...
The locomotives were later sold to AN Tasrail. With Pacific National selling the Tasmanian railway system to TasRail, six locomotives have been repainted...
1998. "Tasrail to take over Emu Bay Railway". Railway Digest. May 1998. p. 16. Tranz Rail Holdings (22 May 1998). "ATN Officially Adds Emu Bay Rail Operation...
transferred to Australian National's TasRail operation with 20 transferred by August 1986. Withdrawals of the TasRail fleet commenced in late 1987 with only...
bidder for Australian National's Tasrail operation in Tasmania with the handover occurring on 1 November 1997. In 1998, Tasrail purchased the Emu Bay Railway...
Tranz Rail sold three QRs accompanied the second batch of DQ class locomotives due to a locomotive shortage due to the planned replacement of Tasrails English...
were rebuilt as the DC class locomotive. Tranz Rail, a successor of the NZGR, sold DC 4588 to AN Tasrail. It has since been scrapped. Due to a locomotive...
operated by the Emu Bay Railway, Tasmanian Government Railways, AN Tasrail and TasRail and the preceding private companies which were amalgamated into the...
by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Rail between 1967 and 1972. They were later sold to AN Tasrail. The 1300 class was an upgraded version of the...
operations on the west coast and in the northwest. Services are operated by TasRail. Regular passenger train services in the state ceased in 1977; the only...
been small and unprofitable. Operated by the Tasmanian Government owned TasRail since 2009, previous owners include Australian National, Australian Transport...
Brighton operated by TasRail. The idea of building the Brighton Transport Hub (BTH) to replace the outdated and congested TasRail intermodal terminal at...
Flats loading facility is currently mothballed by its current owners TasRail. TasRail has also placed the railway line north of the Melba Flats loading facility...
After purchasing AN Tasrail in 1997, Australian Transport Network (ATN), which shared the same Wisconsin Central ownership as Tranz Rail, quickly needed locomotives...
and AN Tasrail. In August 2004, Pacific National purchased Freight Australia, giving Pacific National control of the Victorian non-urban rail track, excluding...
Tasmanian Transport Museum and finally Y6&8 to Don River Railway. With Tasrail retaining Y7 for parts. Y7 was rebuilt in 2001 as a driving van for use...
Melbourne (manager of suburban trackage owned by VicTrack) Queensland RailTasRail V/Line (manages all Victorian track owned by VicTrack, except the suburban...
meeting, passing, or storing cars or trains "Glossary of Train Speak". TasRail. Retrieved 26 October 2020. crossing loop: ... a facility that permits...
Forest: Reed Books. pp. 285–286. ISBN 0-730100-05-7. Za Class Railpage Za Class Rail Tasmania "Tasrail Loco Renumbering" Railway Digest October 1998 page 36...
Rail in the mid-1990s and rebuilt as DQ class locomotives, most of these locomotives were then re-exported to TasRail, then part-owned by Tranz Rail....
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