South Spur Rail/Coote Industrial Operations

NR29 wrote:Does anyone know what happen to Coote's Container train to North Quay?? S43/S44 sorry,been away for 2months

No longer operates but with SSRS to have new owners it may be back.

Does anyone know what happen to Coote's Container train to North Quay?? S43/S44 sorry,been away for 2months

Coote Industrial has entered a binding agreement to sell its South
Spur Rail Services subsidiary to logistics company P&O Trans Australia
for $16 million cash.

Under the sale agreement, P&O will acquire 100 per cent of issued
capital of South Spur for $16 million cash, which includes a
pre-payment for maintenance work of $1 million which Coote will
provide.

South Spur will also continue to lease its rollingstock fleet from
Coote subsidiary Greentrains.

"We are pleased that South Spur, with the backing of a financially
robust owner and operator in POTA, will continue to have an ongoing
relationship with Greentrains," Mr Coote said.

"As previously announced, the board continues to pursue a
re-capitalisation of Greentrains to de-consolidate that entity from
Coote and settle on the second tranche of rollingstock which
Greentrains has committed to acquire from Gemco Rail.

"We believe that the sale of South Spur to POTA, coupled with the
opportunity to broaden the customer base through leasing of any
returned Greentrains rollingstock, should materially enhance
Greentrains' value and the prospects of successfully concluding a
re-capitalisation on appropriate terms."

RA212 pushed the narrow guage ballast fleet out of the yard yesterday and then back in to the loading area.

Jarroo wrote:It was built for tiny people, the cab is tiny inside......

Is that the sole reason why they never used it? I laughed a lot when I read it. One of my friend who worked for CFCLA in Sydney once tried to enter the cab of CC203 locomotive (U201 sister), and sit on the driver seat, while he visited Bandung. Despite of his large body, he could do that without too much problem.

Perhaps the problem with the cab size have something to do with:
1. Dual driving console. I wonder if the one that facing b-side could be removed?
2. The seat is too close with driving console.

Size shouldn't be a problem. I have entered one old WAGR passenger coach at Railway Museum in Basendean which have a much even tighter space when compared to the U201.

Admin wrote:

bagus70 wrote:What's happening with the U201? It seemed that it never ran since it arrived in Australia.

Correct and its still in front of F40 at Bellevue.
Maybe it will be sold as it was obtained by previous owners of South Spur Rail and there appears to be no use for it now.

It was built for tiny people, the cab is tiny inside......

bagus70 wrote:What's happening with the U201? It seemed that it never ran since it arrived in Australia.

Correct and its still in front of F40 at Bellevue.
Maybe it will be sold as it was obtained by previous owners of South Spur Rail and there appears to be no use for it now.

What's happening with the U201? It seemed that it never ran since it arrived in Australia.

wn514 wrote:hey jarroo i am away on holidays at the moment but should be back home by the end of the week. any idea how long the artc ballast/work train will be hanging around and will it be working out of parkeston as usual.
thanks,
wally.

Wally only a quick stopover this time - it was due in midnight Wed and was due out 17.30 ish on Friday, I was in Perth so am not sure what time it went in the end, it was reported as still being at Parkeston on Saturday morning

SCT005 wrote:Out of curiosity, any information available on Coote Rails F40 locomotive stored at Bellvue? Not seen much mention of it recently, just wondered if it is still a runner or if it's still going to be exported?

F40 is still in the same place at Bellevue its been for months, I assume its still a goer just no work for it.
With a hostile takeover of Coote Industrial underway that could see new majority ownership anything could happen.
Its believed the previous sale was really only an enquiry but with prospect of new ownership sale of unused assets could be on.

Out of curiosity, any information available on Coote Rails F40 locomotive stored at Bellvue? Not seen much mention of it recently, just wondered if it is still a runner or if it's still going to be exported?

hey jarroo i am away on holidays at the moment but should be back home by the end of the week. any idea how long the artc ballast/work train will be hanging around and will it be working out of parkeston as usual.
thanks,
wally.

Admin wrote:Some recent operations are:
Friday 12/03
D49 and D51 ran light engine Bellevue to Parkeston
NA1874 & 8044 on ARTC ballast train arrived Parkeston and attached D49 and D51
Saturday 13/03
D48 ran 7S65 rail train and empty ballast wagons to Kalgoorlie
KA212 ran 7S68 ballast train to ballast at night in Cockburn Junction area

The reason for the 2 x D's was the failure of an 80 class somewhere across the border on the way over and with a heavy
train, extra power was required.

Some recent operations are:
Friday 12/03
D49 and D51 ran light engine Bellevue to Parkeston
NA1874 & 8044 on ARTC ballast train arrived Parkeston and attached D49 and D51
Saturday 13/03
D48 ran 7S65 rail train and empty ballast wagons to Kalgoorlie
KA212 ran 7S68 ballast train to ballast at night in Cockburn Junction area