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Tranz Rail, the Glossary

Tranz Rail, formally Tranz Rail Holdings Limited (New Zealand Rail Limited until 1995), was the main rail operator in New Zealand from 1991 until it was purchased by Toll Holdings in 2003.^[1]

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New Zealand companies established in 1991
Railway companies established in 1991
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Alstom

Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets.

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AMP is a financial services company in Australia and New Zealand providing superannuation and investment products, financial advice, and banking products (through AMP Banking) including home loans and savings accounts.

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AN Tasrail

AN Tasrail was an Australian railway operator that operated the Tasmanian rail network from March 1978 until November 2004.

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Asset stripping

Asset stripping refers to selling off a company's assets to improve returns for equity investors, often a financial investor, a "corporate raider", who takes over another company and then auctions off the acquired company's assets.

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Australian Transport Network

Australian Transport Network (ATN) was a freight railway operator in Australia that commenced operating in November 1997.

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Beehive (New Zealand)

The Beehive (Te Whare Mīere) is the common name for the Executive Wing of New Zealand Parliament Buildings, located at the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington.

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Berkshire Partners

Berkshire Partners is an American private equity firm based in Boston.

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Broadspectrum

Broadspectrum, formerly known as Transfield Services, was an Australian and New Zealand company that provided infrastructure maintenance services.

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Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa

The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) is a research and lobbying organisation combatting what it considers the sell-out of New Zealand companies and assets to overseas interests.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Cato Blue (livery)

Cato Blue is an informal term describing a New Zealand railway locomotive livery (resulting from the combination of blue, grey and yellow in the colour scheme) found in common usage amongst the railfan community.

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CentrePort Wellington

CentrePort Wellington (CentrePort) provides land and sea infrastructure and manages port facilities in Wellington Harbour in New Zealand.

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Chicago Freight Car Leasing Company

The Chicago Freight Car Leasing Company provides railcar leasing and management to companies throughout North America for a variety of commodities, including agricultural & food products; chemical & processed mineral products; metals, ores, aggregates, mineral rock/stone, and petroleum products.

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China Navigation Company

The China Navigation Company Limited (CNCo) is a London-based holding company of merchant shipping companies Swire Shipping Pte Ltd and Swire Bulk Pte Ltd, both of which are headquartered in Singapore.

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Clear Communications

Clear Communications was a telecommunications company based in New Zealand.

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David Richwhite

David MacKellar Richwhite (born 1948) is a New Zealand investment banker and was a partner in Fay, Richwhite & Company with Sir Michael Fay.

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.

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Edward Burkhardt

Edward Arnold Burkhardt is a railroad executive, the founder and current chairman of Rail World Inc.

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Fay Richwhite

Fay, Richwhite & Company is the investment vehicle of Switzerland-based New Zealand merchant bankers Sir Michael Fay and David Richwhite.

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Ferrymead Railway

The Ferrymead Railway is a New Zealand heritage railway built upon the track formation of New Zealand's first public railway, from Ferrymead to Christchurch, which opened on 1 December 1863.

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Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand

The Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand governed New Zealand from 26 July 1984 to 2 November 1990 (the period up to 8 August 1989 is also called the Lange Government).

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Fourth National Government of New Zealand

The Fourth National Government of New Zealand (also known as the Bolger–Shipley Government) was the government of New Zealand from 2 November 1990 to 27 November 1999.

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Francis Small (engineer)

Arthur Francis Small (26 February 1946 – 5 March 2021) was a New Zealand engineer and scouting leader.

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GL Limited

GL Limited is an investment company listed on the Singapore Exchange.

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Great Journeys New Zealand

Great Journeys New Zealand is the tourism division of KiwiRail that operate its three Scenic train services (TranzAlpine, Northern Explorer and Coastal Pacific). Tranz Rail and Great Journeys New Zealand are railway companies of New Zealand.

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Hutt Workshops

The Hutt Railway Workshops is a major railway engineering facility in the Lower Hutt suburb of Gracefield in the Wellington region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Infratil

Infratil Limited is a New Zealand-based infrastructure investment company.

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Insider trading

Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company.

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Interislander

Interislander is a road and rail ferry service across New Zealand's Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island.

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KiwiRail

KiwiRail Holdings Limited is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise (SOE) responsible for rail operations in New Zealand and operates inter-island ferries. Tranz Rail and KiwiRail are railway companies of New Zealand.

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Lyttelton Harbour

Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō is a major inlet on the northwest side of Banks Peninsula, on the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand; the other major inlet is Akaroa Harbour, which enters from the southern side of the peninsula.

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Mainfreight

Mainfreight Limited is a New Zealand logistics and transport company headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Midland Line, New Zealand

The Midland line is a 212 km section of railway between Rolleston and Greymouth in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Ministry of Transport (New Zealand)

Te Manatū Waka Ministry of Transport is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the New Zealand Government on transport policy.

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Nasdaq

The Nasdaq Stock Market (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand DC class locomotive

The New Zealand DC class locomotive is a type of diesel-electric mainline locomotive on the New Zealand rail network, operated by KiwiRail on freight trains, and formerly on long-distance passenger trains.

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New Zealand DF class locomotive (1979)

The New Zealand DF class locomotive of 1979 is a class of 30 Co-Co diesel-electric locomotives built by General Motors Diesel of Canada between 1979 and 1981.

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New Zealand dollar

The New Zealand dollar (tāra o Aotearoa; sign: $; code: NZD) is the official currency and legal tender of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, the Ross Dependency, Tokelau, and a British territory, the Pitcairn Islands.

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New Zealand DQ and QR class locomotives

The DQ and QR class were a class of diesel locomotives in New Zealand and Tasmania, Australia.

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New Zealand EF class locomotive

The New Zealand EF class locomotive (originally Class 30) is a class of electric locomotives that operate on the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) between Palmerston North and Te Rapa in New Zealand.

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New Zealand Government

The New Zealand Government (Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa) is the central government through which political authority is exercised in New Zealand.

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New Zealand Railways Corporation

New Zealand Railways Corporation (NZRC) is the state-owned enterprise that owns the land beneath KiwiRail's railway network on behalf of the Crown. Tranz Rail and new Zealand Railways Corporation are railway companies of New Zealand.

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New Zealand Railways Department

The New Zealand Railways Department, NZR or NZGR (New Zealand Government Railways) and often known as the "Railways", was a government department charged with owning and maintaining New Zealand's railway infrastructure and operating the railway system. Tranz Rail and New Zealand Railways Department are railway companies of New Zealand.

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New Zealand Treasury

The New Zealand Treasury (Te Tai Ōhanga) is the central public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the Government on economic policy, assisting with improving the performance of New Zealand's economy, and managing financial resources.

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North Island Main Trunk

The North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) is the main railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, connecting the capital city Wellington with the country's largest city, Auckland.

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NZX

New Zealand's Exchange, known commonly as the NZX, is the national stock exchange for New Zealand and a publicly owned company.

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Pacific National

Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses.

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Patrick Corporation

Patrick Corporation is an Australian seaport operator with operations in Brisbane, Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney.

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Port of Tauranga

The Port of Tauranga is situated in Tauranga, New Zealand.

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Ports of Auckland

Ports of Auckland Limited (POAL), the successor to the Auckland Harbour Board, is the Auckland Council-owned company administering Auckland's commercial freight and cruise ship harbour facilities.

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Private good

A private good is defined in economics as "an item that yields positive benefits to people" that is excludable, i.e. its owners can exercise private property rights, preventing those who have not paid for it from using the good or consuming its benefits; and rivalrous, i.e. consumption by one necessarily prevents that of another.

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Privatization

Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.

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Provinces of New Zealand

The provinces of the Colony of New Zealand existed as a form of sub-national government.

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Public good (economics)

In economics, a public good (also referred to as a social good or collective good)Oakland, W. H. (1987).

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Queensland Rail

Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.

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Rail & Maritime Transport Union

The Rail & Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) is a trade union in New Zealand.

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Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand

The Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand is a charitable trust established in October 1991.

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Rail transport in New Zealand

Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of of track linking most major cities in the North and South Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries.

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Rail World

Rail World is a rail transport holding company.

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RailAmerica

RailAmerica, Inc., based in Jacksonville, Florida, was a holding company of a number of short-line railroads and regional railroads in the United States and Canada.

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Railroad Development Corporation

The Railroad Development Corporation is an American railroad holding company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Rails (magazine)

Rails was a New Zealand-based monthly periodical covering rail transport in New Zealand published by Rails Publishing Ltd from August 1971, which in 1972 changed its name to Southern Press from August 1971 until December 2003.

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Railway Age

Railway Age is an American trade magazine for the rail transport industry.

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Roger Award

The Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in New Zealand was an annual media campaign run since 1997 by two activist organisations, Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa and GATT Watchdog.

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Sea Containers

Sea Containers was a Bermudan registered company which operated two primary business areas: transport and container leasing.

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Securities Commission of New Zealand

The Securities Commission was an independent Crown entity of the government of New Zealand and the main regulator of investments.

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Shell corporation

A shell corporation is a company or corporation with no significant assets or operations often formed to obtain financing before beginning business.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States.

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Stagecoach

A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, diligence) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.

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TasRail

TasRail (legal name Tasmanian Railway Pty Limited) is a Tasmanian Government state-owned enterprise that has operated the mainline railways in Tasmania since September 2009.

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The Anschutz Corporation

The Anschutz Corporation is an American private holding company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

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The Dominion (Wellington)

The Dominion was a broadsheet metropolitan morning daily newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand, from 1907 to 2002.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.

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The Post (New Zealand newspaper)

The Post (formerly and still commonly referred to as The Dominion Post) is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Think Big

Think Big was an interventionist state economic strategy of the Third National Government of New Zealand, promoted by the Prime Minister Robert Muldoon (1975–1984) and his National government in the early 1980s.

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Toll Domestic Forwarding

Toll Domestic Forwarding (TDF) is a division of the Toll Group specialising in freight forwarding by road, rail and sea within and between Australia and New Zealand.

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Toll Group

Toll Group operates a logistics and global freight forwarding network spanning 150 countries, with over 20,000 customers.

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Transdev Auckland

Transdev Auckland, formerly Veolia Transport Auckland, and Connex Auckland was a subsidiary of Transdev Australasia that ran Auckland's urban passenger trains under contract from Auckland Transport on infrastructure owned and managed by KiwiRail. Tranz Rail and Transdev Auckland are railway companies of New Zealand.

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Transport Licensing Act 1931

The Transport Licensing Act 1931 was a New Zealand Act of Parliament regulating land transport.

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Tranz Metro

Tranz Metro (formerly Cityrail and before that Cityline) was a New Zealand public transport operator. Tranz Rail and tranz Metro are railway companies of New Zealand.

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TVNZ

Television New Zealand (Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Wellington

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand.

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Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company

The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR or W&MR) was a private railway company that built, owned and operated the Wellington-Manawatu railway line between Thorndon in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, and Longburn, near Palmerston North in the Manawatu, between 1881 and 1908, when it was acquired by the New Zealand Government Railways. Tranz Rail and Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company are railway companies of New Zealand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranz_Rail

Also known as New Zealand Rail Limited, New Zealand Rail Ltd, New Zealand Rail Ltd., TranzRail.

, Ports of Auckland, Private good, Privatization, Provinces of New Zealand, Public good (economics), Queensland Rail, Rail & Maritime Transport Union, Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand, Rail transport in New Zealand, Rail World, RailAmerica, Railroad Development Corporation, Rails (magazine), Railway Age, Roger Award, Sea Containers, Securities Commission of New Zealand, Shell corporation, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Stagecoach, State-owned enterprise, TasRail, The Anschutz Corporation, The Dominion (Wellington), The New Zealand Herald, The Post (New Zealand newspaper), Think Big, Toll Domestic Forwarding, Toll Group, Transdev Auckland, Transport Licensing Act 1931, Tranz Metro, TVNZ, Union Pacific Railroad, Victoria (state), Wellington, Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, Wellington railway station, West Coast Railway (Victoria), Wisconsin Central, Wisconsin Central Ltd., 1990 New Zealand general election.

Tranz Rail, the Glossary

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See also

New Zealand companies established in 1991

Railway companies established in 1991

Railway companies of New Zealand

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