Reliance Rail Techical Due Diligence and Independent Certificaton Services

Reliance Rail entered into a$3.6Bn NSW Rolling Stock Public Private Partnership with Sydney Trains in December 2006 to finance, manufacture and maintain 626 suburban passenger train carriages for Sydney’s rail network.Reliance Rail, the special purpose vehicle established exclusively to deliver the PPP Project is owned by a consortium of international infrastructure developers and financial services companies—Downer EDI, interests managed by AMP Capital Investors, Royal Bank of Scotland Group and International Public Partnerships.With GHD, Peter Wilkinson provided due diligence services as Independent Engineer for the Reliance Rail Consortium during the bid stage and subsequently acted as Independent Certifier for Reliance Rail.