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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1 January 2004 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Dissolved | 1 July 2020 |
| Superseding agency | |
| Jurisdiction | New South Wales |
| Headquarters | Sydney |
| Minister responsible | |
| Agency executive |
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| Parent agency | Transport for NSW |
| Key documents | |
| Website | www.transport.nsw.gov.au/railcorp |
Rail Corporation New South Wales (RailCorp) was an agency of the State of New South Wales, Australia established under the Transport Administration Act 1988 in 2004. It was a division under the control of Transport for NSW since the latter's establishment in 2011.[1] RailCorp was converted into a state-owned corporation and renamed the Transport Asset Holding Entity (TAHE) on 1 July 2020.[2][3][4]
Until its conversion to TAHE, RailCorp held rail property assets, rolling stock and rail infrastructure in the Sydney metropolitan area and limited country locations in the state and it makes these assets available to Sydney Trains and NSW TrainLink for their operations. It also managed the NSW Government's contract with the Airport Link Company.[5] At the time of conversion to TAHE, the acting chief executive of RailCorp was Sydney Trains chief executive Howard Collins.[6][5]
Additionally, until 2013, RailCorp also formerly operated passenger train services in New South Wales under the brand CityRail, and maintained rail infrastructure within the New South Wales Metropolitan Rail Area. From July 2013, operation and maintenance functions were transferred to the newly created Sydney Trains and NSW Trains agencies, which were also subsidiaries of RailCorp, leaving RailCorp as the legal owner of a portfolio of $28.6 billion of railway property, mostly within the metropolitan area. In July 2017, Sydney Trains and NSW Trains ceased to be subsidiaries of RailCorp and became standalone independent agencies.[7]
- ^ Transport for NSW Annual Report 2016–17 page 237 Archived 22 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Transport for NSW, Retrieved 18 January 2018
- ^ Transport for NSW Annual Report 2016–17 page 142,237 Archived 22 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Transport for NSW, Retrieved 18 January 2018
- ^ Transport Administration Amendment (Transport Entities) Act 2017 No 12 Archived 16 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Australasian Legal Information Institute, Retrieved 16 January 2018
- ^ "Transport Asset Holding Entity of New South Wales". Transport for NSW. Archived from the original on 1 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ a b "RailCorp". Transport for NSW. Archived from the original on 18 March 2020.
- ^ Transport for New South Wales (2014). RailCorp 2014 Annual Report (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- ^ "Transport for NSW Annual Report 2017–18" (PDF). Transport for NSW. p. 49. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2018.