years including the Silver City Comet, Northern Tablelands Express, Canberra XPT, Brisbane Limited, Pacific Coast Motorail, South Coast Daylight Express, Intercapital Daylight and Sydney/Melbourne Express These were replaced either by XPT sets, EMU/DMU sets or coaches. Coach services which had been operated by the State Rail Authority's own fleet were contracted out to private operators. The report had recommended closing all country passenger services as they were judged unviable, however this was not politically acceptable. The State Rail Authority was divided into business units: CityRail: responsible for suburban and interurban passenger services CountryLink: responsible for country passenger services FreightRail: responsible for freight services Rail Estate: responsible for rail property CityRail adopted a blue and yellow colour scheme including L7 logo, CountryLink a blue, white and grey scheme and FreightRail a blue and yellow scheme. July 1996 restructure On 1 July 1996, the State Rail Authority was restructured into four distinct entities by the Transport Administration Amendment (Rail Corporatisation and Restructuring) Act 1996 to separate infrastructure from operations as required by the Competition Policy Reform Act 1995.<ref>"State Rail Restructure Announced" Railway Digest" May 1996 page 7</ref> This was part of the process of moving to an open access regime. The entities were: Freight Rail Corporation: responsible for freight services Rail Access Corporation: responsible for managing track and providing access to public and private operators Railway Services Authority: responsible for track and rolling stock maintenance State Rail Authority: passenger service operator consisting of CityRail and CountryLink February 1998 restructure Another restructure in February 1998 saw the State Rail Authority split into four operating divisions:Annual Report 30 June 1998 State Rail Authority CityRail Stations CountryLink Operations Passenger Fleet Maintenance January 2001 restructure In January 2001, the Rail Access Corporation and Railway Services Authority were merged into the Rail Infrastructure Corporation that took responsibility for ownership and maintenance of the infrastructure.Annual Report 30 June 2001 Rail Infrastructure Corporation January 2004 restructure and wind down In January 2004, after much criticism and public perceptions of blame shifting between units for operational failings, RailCorp was formed taking over the passenger train operations from the residual State Rail Authority (CityRail and CountryLink) and responsibility for maintaining the greater metropolitan network from the Rail Infrastructure Corporation.Annual Report 30 June 2004 RailCorp By June 2006 much of the operational function had been transferred, with the State Rail Authority in the process of being wound down. Publication From September 1981