Sims Street Junction Introduction

 

Sims Street Junction is a National Rail Corporation Prototype Model Railway, modelling the period 1992 to 2002 in HO gauge.

Background to National Rail Corporation Ltd.

The National Rail Corporation (NRC) was an Australian rail operator established by the Federal, New South Wales and Victoria governments in February 1992 and was defunct in February 2002. In February 2002 National Rail was sold to a Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings consortium and rebranded Pacific National.

NRC took over the running of all interstate services from Australian National, FreightCorp and V/Line. National Rail took over cross-border operations progressively from April 1993 over the interstate network between Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs and Perth.

Divisions – Intermodal, SeaTrain, SteelLink, Trailerail

V/Line Freight was sold to a consortium of RailAmerica, Fluor Daniel, Macquarie Bank and A Goninan & Co and rebranded as Freight Victoria effective from 1 May 1999. After being renamed Freight Australia in March 2000, it was sold to Pacific National in August 2004.

History of operators 1990 to 2003