... in New South Wales, resulting in problems that they eventually fixed by leasing the country rail network to the Australia Rail Track Corporation for a dollar a year and re-joining the Cityrail (operating) and Rail Infrastructure Corporation (infrastructure) companies to form a single metropolitan rail corporation for the electrified system centering on Sydney.

The reason for the lease to the ARTC was the political hurdles in approving commercially viable works in areas without a lot of political clout.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.