in melbourne in may 2006 industry railway operator predecessor great northern rail services founded december 2003 number of locations new south wales victoria subsidiaries consolidated rail leasing website www.southernshorthaulrailroad.com.au southern shorthaul railroad is an australian provider of motive power hauling trains in new south wales and victoria . contents 1 history 2 fleet 2.1 owned 2.2 previously leased 2.3 other 3 references 4 external links history edit ex westrail j class locomotives in newport in may 2008 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 . 1 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 . 2 the company also refurbishes and repairs locomotives and rolling stock at the former bendigo workshops in victoria . 3 it also has a maintenance facility at the lithgow state mine heritage park & railway . 4 5 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 pty ltd. in october 2012 the name was changed to consolidated rail leasing . 6 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 . 7 in april 2016 southern shorthaul railroad brought the majority of the greentrains fleet enabling ssr to no longer have to hire motive power such as the vl class locomotives and to expand their operations . fleet edit see also consolidated rail leasing ssr operates a combination of owned and leased locomotives 8 9 owned edit as at july 2016 ssr owned the following locomotives 10 442 class 442s1 442s2 442s5 442s6 44204 44206 45 class 45s1 48 class 48s28 48s33 48s34 48s35 48s36 48s33 48s34 and 48s36 are on long term hire to john holland rail 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 edit 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 edit as of june 2015 ssr operated the following c44aci model locomotives owned by centennial coal and fletcher s international exports 10 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 rail s 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 edit infrastructure train operations southern shorthaul railroad coal train operations southern shorthaul railroad victorian grant puts rail business on a new track department of premier and cabinet media release 4 october 2007 press release state mine railway workshop services southern shorthaul railroad consolidated rail leasing pty ltd . australian securities and investments commission . retrieved 22 january 2013 . ssr brings competition to nsw grain rail haulage railway digest june 2014 page 11 locomotives southern shorthaul railroad southern shorthaul railroad fleet vicsig.net a b australia wide fleet list motive power issue 96 november 2014 pages 66 & 72 external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title southern shorthaul railroad & oldid 734274819 categories railway companies of australiafreight railway companies of australiarailway rolling stock leasing companies of australia2003 establishments in australiahidden categories use dmy dates from october 2011use australian english from october 2011all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload 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