At the time (July 2008) QR National was owned by the Queensland Government, but strangely was allowed to compete for non traditional traffics against private rail operators under open access principles.
In New South Wale sit progressively made inroads in the Hunter Valley coal traffics and today has about 20% of this particular market.
In 2010 the business was privatised through a stock market flotation and was renamed Aurizon.
