A bit of a guide is if the In-Line refuelling unit is attached immediately behind the locos.
Cannot tell from the railcam photo stream unfortunately.
Aurizon intermodal doesn't own the wagons nor do they own the yellow boxes they use for the woolsworth contract.
SCT has now got the Woolworths contract from aurizon.
In total 15 five packs were delievered to SCT over a three week period plus aurizon painted yellow boxes to continue the contract with Woolworths.
Passing by North Dynon yard yesterday(7/1/18) I was surprised to find the yard,vacated only a few weeks ago by Aurizon,almost full again with containers(lots of Linfox,Toll and Hamburg Sud)With Aurizon (never warmed up to this name)withdrawing from interstate intermodal traffic ,what future for North Dynon Yard?Interesting question, as I have posted elsewhere North Dynon has been undergoing extensive renovation and expansion over the past few months (work still going). I initially thought the work was for Qube then as they got near completion Aurizon started stabling some stuff there and now with AZJ moving on I have no idea!
QUBE is the other tenant.
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Supplementary question. Does SCT ever park their trains at Cook (SA) for any reason (for a short time e.g. waiting at crossing loop), even if it is not to take on fuel, or are they always waived through? Why does PacNat have the exclusive right to use Cook apart from refuelling)?My understanding is that the town of Cook was sold to PN in 1997, a number of houses were sold and moved following the sale of the town.
Supplementary question. Does SCT ever park their trains at Cook (SA) for any reason (for a short time e.g. waiting at crossing loop), even if it is not to take on fuel, or are they always waived through? Why does PacNat have the exclusive right to use Cook apart from refuelling)?My understanding is that the town of Cook was sold to PN in 1997, a number of houses were sold and moved following the sale of the town.
PN own the refueling facility.
I wanna ask a dumb question. How does SCT manage to use its own wagons to move freight across the nullabor? How are they loaded/unloaded? Wouldn't it make more sense to move containers given their internal portability onto the back of trucks, ships etc? I know the have some refrigerated boxes that can he dropped onto trucks.Pallets.
Supplementary question. Does SCT ever park their trains at Cook (SA) for any reason (for a short time e.g. waiting at crossing loop), even if it is not to take on fuel, or are they always waived through? Why does PacNat have the exclusive right to use Cook apart from refuelling)?The crossing loop at Cook is part of the ARTC network, so there's no reason for ARTC to not schedule trains of operators other than PN to use the loop.
If I recall correctly, PN waited until oil prices tanked in about 2005 and then bought the Cook depot at a time when GWA (still branded ARG at the time) were starting to offload unprofitable assets.Supplementary question. Does SCT ever park their trains at Cook (SA) for any reason (for a short time e.g. waiting at crossing loop), even if it is not to take on fuel, or are they always waived through? Why does PacNat have the exclusive right to use Cook apart from refuelling)?My understanding is that the town of Cook was sold to PN in 1997, a number of houses were sold and moved following the sale of the town.
PN own the refueling facility.
Originally sold to GWA as part of the sale of AN in 1997.
Some time in mid-2000s ownership transferred over to PN as part of a deal with GWA.
I wanna ask a dumb question. How does SCT manage to use its own wagons to move freight across the nullabor? How are they loaded/unloaded? Wouldn't it make more sense to move containers given their internal portability onto the back of trucks, ships etc? I know the have some refrigerated boxes that can he dropped onto trucks.Don't jinx it, SCT are a beacon of light in an industry that says that LCL is unviable for Rail.
Agree on all three points.I wanna ask a dumb question. How does SCT manage to use its own wagons to move freight across the nullabor? How are they loaded/unloaded? Wouldn't it make more sense to move containers given their internal portability onto the back of trucks, ships etc? I know the have some refrigerated boxes that can he dropped onto trucks.Don't jinx it, SCT are a beacon of light in an industry that says that LCL is unviable for Rail.
SCT are an end to end logistics company who load their own trains in their own depots which gives them a heap of operational flexibility.
Judging by the size of the trains that they run North - South and East - West with a large proportion of the load being in vans I reckon they might just know what they are doing.......
If I recall correctly, PN waited until oil prices tanked in about 2005 and then bought the Cook depot at a time when GWA (still branded ARG at the time) were starting to offload unprofitable assets.
The biggest part of which is that they are a transport operator which uses rail as part of the transport system, instead of being a train operator which tries to make everyone's transport needs fit their operations.Agree on all three points.I wanna ask a dumb question. How does SCT manage to use its own wagons to move freight across the nullabor? How are they loaded/unloaded? Wouldn't it make more sense to move containers given their internal portability onto the back of trucks, ships etc? I know the have some refrigerated boxes that can he dropped onto trucks.Don't jinx it, SCT are a beacon of light in an industry that says that LCL is unviable for Rail.
SCT are an end to end logistics company who load their own trains in their own depots which gives them a heap of operational flexibility.
Judging by the size of the trains that they run North - South and East - West with a large proportion of the load being in vans I reckon they might just know what they are doing.......
SCT has been a great success story and is a major hope for the future of rail freight in Australia.