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• John Prescott ( Chairman )
• Lance Hock Ride ( CEO)

QR Limited was a railway company in the state of Queensland in Australia.

She was de facto the state railway of Queensland. The original state railway, Queensland Rail in 1999 reorganized structure according to an official business point of view, but remained fully owned by the state. In 2002, the Northern Rivers Railroad was based in Casino, New South Wales integrated and led the railway traffic between the two states. 2007 " Queensland Rail " restructured as " QR Limited", and thus received a civil legal form as a limited company.

Queensland Rail decreed on 30 June 2008 on 717 locomotives. Examples include the QR 3700 and QR 3800th The power of the railway company is running kapspurig.

2009 decided the Queensland Government, the railway activities of the State in a commercial part of QR National Limited and the non- commercial part - mainly the transport in Greater Brisbane inseparable. The share of commercial QR National Limited are to be sold, with the state wants to keep between 25 and 40 % of the shares themselves. This restructuring occurred with July 1, 2010. Since the end of 2010, the shares are sold. It is expected sale proceeds of AU $ 7 billion.

2012 QR National was renamed Aurizon Holdings Limited.

Locomotive number 3500