Australian National Railways Commission

Australian National Railways Commission
	An 830 class locomotive in the Australian National colour scheme at Mount Gambier in 1983
Industry	Railway operator
Predecessor	Commonwealth Railways; South Australian Railways;
Founded	1 July 1975
Defunct	30 June 1998
Successor	Australian Rail Track Corporation (infrastructure); Australian Southern Railroad & National Rail (freight); Great Southern Rail (passenger);
Headquarters	Adelaide
Area served	Northern Territory; South Australia; Western Australia
Parent	Government of Australia
Subsidiaries	AN Tasrail

The Australian National Railways Commission was an agency of the Government of Australia that was a railway operator between 1975 and 1998. It traded as Australian National Railways (ANR) in its early years, before being rebranded as Australian National. AN was widely used from 1980, the logotype being registered as a trade mark.

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