About us

Reliance Rail entered into the NSW Rolling Stock Public Private Partnership (PPP) with RailCorp in December 2006 to manufacture and maintain 626 suburban passenger train carriages for Sydney’s rail network.

Reliance Rail is a special purpose vehicle established exclusively to deliver the PPP Project. It is owned by a consortium of leading international infrastructure developers and financial services companies—Downer EDI, interests managed by AMP Capital Investors, RBS Social Infrastructure (Australia) Trust and International Public Partnerships.

Reliance Rail is supported by a team of the rail industry’s foremost engineering and services organisations, including Downer EDI Rail and Hitachi, for the design, manufacture and maintenance of the Waratah trains and the development of a new maintenance centre in Sydney’s western suburbs.

This is the largest single procurement of trains in Australian history and is equivalent to about 50 per cent of CityRail's electric suburban fleet.