- South Spur Rail Services
South Spur Rail Services (SSRS) is a
Western Australia n owned railway company the provides terminal operations and short haul rail services to the rail transport industry. It is a family owned and operated business formed in 1997cite web
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accessdate = 2008-03-05 ] whose shareholders come from aWestrail background.South Spur Rail have a number of contracts for hauling ballast, rail and sleeper trains. In Perth, South Spur also provide hook-and-pull services for the
Pacific National SeaTrain service betweenKewdale Freight Terminal and Fremantle Port. In the construction of the Perth to Mandurah railway SSR diesels have hauled track and sleepers over theMount Henry Bridge as far as South Perth.Until 2008 South Spur Rail Services also operated a Restaurant Train service called the Spirit of the West, using K class locomotive K205 and a number of standard gauge coaches including two hired from
Rail Heritage WA .The company acquired New South Wales company Silverton Rail in 2006 and renamed it
Southern and Silverton Rail , with this subsidiary operating South Spur Rail Services services inNew South Wales . The company became a wholly owned part of theCoote Industrial Group in 2007.tock
* D47, D48, D49, D51
* F40
* K205, K206, K210
* KA212
* NA1874
* R1902
* ZB2120, ZB2125, ZB2129
* 602, 603, 607References
External links
* [http://www.southspur.com/ South Spur Rail]
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