TransAdelaide was a publicly owned corporation established on 4 July 1994 which provided suburban train, tram and bus services in

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

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, under contract to the Government of South Australia. It took over these responsibilities from the State Transport Authority. TransAdelaide operated local bus services in Adelaide until 22 April 2000. All metropolitan bus routes have since been transferred to private companies Light-City Buses,

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and

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. TransAdelaide continued to operate rail services under the

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brand. TransAdelaide was abolished on 31 August 2010 with its staff and functions were transferred to the newly created Office of the Rail Commissioner. TransAdelaide operated all suburban railway services in Adelaide on the Belair,

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, Grange,

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, Outer Harbor and Tonsley lines. After retiring the last of the aging Redhen railcars in 1996, TransAdelaide operated 99

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diesel railcars, split into two classes and four types, the

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2000/2100 class and the diesel-electric 3000/3100 class.Annual Report year ended 30 June 2010
TransAdelaide All were maintained by Bombardier Transportation at a central depot adjacent to Adelaide station. TransAdelaide also operated the

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Fleet table

Past fleet

TransAdelaide inherited some Redhen railcars from the State Transport Authority. The final units were retired in October 1996. Type H trams were the mainstay of the

for the 77 years between the line being converted from a steam railway to electrified tramway operation in 1929 and the trams' retirement in 2006. They were replaced by

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and Alstom Citadis low-floor trams, which now also run on an extension of the line through

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