Southern Shorthaul Railroad

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Industry Railway operator Locations New South Wales, Victoria		Founded December 2003 Parent organization Holdco Holdings Pty Ltd.

Number of locations New South WalesVictoria Subsidiaries Consolidated Rail Leasing Website www.southernshorthaulrailroad.com.au Predecessor Great Northern Rail Services

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Southern Shorthaul Railroad is an Australian provider of motive power hauling trains in New South Wales and Victoria.

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History

Southern Shorthaul Railroad was established in December 2003, when the remains of Great Northern Rail Services were purchased from Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia.

Current rail operations involve providing RailCorp with hook & pull services for infrastructure trains operating out of Chullora and Clyde in Sydney. These trains generally operate in the areas bounded by Grafton, Muswellbrook, Bathurst, Goulburn and Bomaderry. In August 2011 SSR operated some infrastructure trains in Victoria.

In 2010 SSR entered the coal haulage market. It hauls trains from Clarence and Newstan collieries to ports at Kooragang Island, Carrington and Port Kembla.

The company also refurbishes and repairs locomotives and rolling stock at the former Bendigo Workshops in Victoria. It also has a maintenance facility at the Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park & Railway.

In May 2012, SSR purchased GM3 from Clyde Engineering and transferred it from Kelso to Lithgow for overhaul.

In 2012, SSR formed a subsidiary BRM Leasing. In October 2012 the name was changed to Consolidated Rail Leasing. Some of the SSR fleet has been made available for lease through CRL.

In 2014, SSR commenced operating grain services in New South Wales for George Weston Foods.

In April 2016, Southern Shorthaul Railroad brought the majority of the Greentrains, enabling SSR to no longer have to hire motive power such as the VL class locomotives and to expand its operations.

Fleet

SSR operates a combination of owned and leased locomotives:

Owned

As at July 2016, SSR owned the following locomotives:

442 class: 442s1, 442s2, 442s5, 442s6, 44204, 44206

45 class: 45s1

48 class: 48s28, 48s33, 48s34, 48s35, 48s36 (33, 34 & 36 are on lease to John Holland Rail having been repainted in its white & red livery)

49 class: 4904, 4908, 4910, 4917

600 class: 602, 603

80 class: 8049

830 class: 869

B class: B61, B65, B75

C class: C504, C505, C506, C507, C509, C510

G class: G513, G514

GM class: GM3, GM10, GM12, GM22, GM27

RL class: RL301, RL302, RL304, RL305, RL306, RL307

S class: S302, S317

SSR class: SSR101, SSR102

T class: T363, T381, T385, T386

and the following rail tractors: LT4, LT50, RT37.

Previously Leased

42 class: 4204

47 class: 4701, 4702, 4708, 4716

C class: C502, C503, C508

CM class: CM3302, CM3303, CM3306

G class: G511

VL class: VL353, VL354, VL355, VL356, VL357, VL361

Other

As of June 2015, SSR operated the following C44aci model locomotives owned by Centennial Coal and Fletcher's International Exports:

CEY class: CEY001 to CEY007 – Used on Centennial Coal train services between Kooragang Island and the Western Coalfields or occasionally, the Illawarra coalfields.

FIE class: FIE001 to FIE003 – Used on the Fletcher's International Exports container train service between Dubbo and Port Botany after taking over Qube Logistics' operation of this train in January 2015 and using Fletcher's three new FIE Class locomotives as the revised motive power for the service.

References

Southern Shorthaul Railroad Wikipedia

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