North West. Private company for rail link

Trains on the North West Rail Link will be the first in Sydney to be run by a private company, under a plan for ''Sydney's Rail Future'' unveiled yesterday by the state government. But the government will break a pledge to allow trains from the north-west to travel all the way to Sydney's CBD; commuters will change at Chatswood. The government also committed to a second harbour rail crossing and the conversion of large parts of the network to single-deck train operations.