EDI Rail
In June 1998 Downer Rail was successful in tendering to build a fleet of 140 electric suburban carriages, the Millennium Trains. Immediately after the tender was awarded, Downer Rail moved to prepare the old buildings for their new role. A seven-year lease with an option to buy the site was signed. As at January 2013 the Reliance Rail consortium, of which Downer Rail is a member, were in the process of assembling 626 A set carriages for CityRail, which are proposed to be replacements for all S Set carriages that have been in service since 1972.
Downer have also assembled diesel locomotives at Cardiff with the underframes built at EDI's Port Augusta workshops. Locomotives built at Cardiff were:
- 1 V class for Freight Australia: V544
- 4 90 class for Pacific National: 9032–9035
- 15 SCT class for SCT Logistics: SCT001-SCT015
- 9 LDP class for EDI Rail's Locomotive Demand Power: LDP001-LDP009
- 34 TT class for Pacific National: TT01-TT08, TT101-TT126
- 3 WH class for Whitehaven Coal: WH001-WH003
Read more about this topic: Cardiff Locomotive Workshops
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