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Genesee & Wyoming Australia (GWA) is an Australian rail freight operator based in Adelaide, South Australia. It is a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming and was formed in June 2006 to run the South Australian operations of the Australian Railroad Group. ==History== The company's origins can be traced to when Australian National's intrastate South Australian freight operations were sold to Genesee & Wyoming Inc in August 1997.〔"AN Sale: Private Owners Go From Zero to Three" ''Railway Digest'' October 1997 page 8〕〔"Australia Southern Railroad" Australian Railway Historical Society ''Bulletin'' August 2000 pp283-284〕 Operations commenced in November 1997 with the operation branded Australian Southern Railroad.〔"Genesee and Wyoming Starts up with New Name" ''Railway Digest'' December 1997 page 8〕 In 1999, GWA commenced operating services from Adelaide to Melbourne for Patrick Corporation.〔"ASR Rail Shuttle Takes Trucks out of Port Adelaide" ''Railway Digest'' September 1999 page 15〕 On 1 December 1999, GWA took over operation of the BHP network in Whyalla,〔"ASR Takes Over BHP Whyalla Steel Lines" ''Railway Digest'' January 2000 page 13〕 In October 2000, Australian Railroad Group, a 50/50 joint venture between Genesee & Wyoming and Wesfarmers, were the successful bidder for the Westrail freight business in Western Australia.〔"Australian Railroad Group buys Westrail freight" ''Railway Digest'' October 2000 page 23〕〔(Company History ) Wesfarmers〕 As part of the joint venture agreement, ownership of Australian Southern Railroad passed to the Australian Railroad Group. This resulted in some exchanging of rolling stock between the two operations. In June 2006, the Australian Railroad Group joint venture was broken up with the Western Australian operation sold to QR National and Wesfarmers 50% share in the South Australian operation back to Genesee & Wyoming Inc.〔(Sale of Australian Railroad Group ) Wesfarmers 14 February 2006〕 The operation was rebranded Genesee & Wyoming Australia. In June 2010, Genesee & Wyoming Inc purchased the assets of FreightLink from its receivers leading to Genesee & Wyoming Australia taking over operation of freight trains on the Adelaide–Darwin railway.〔(FreightLink-owned Adelaide-Darwin railway to be sold to US company Genesee & Wyoming ) ''Adelaide Advertiser'' 9 June 2010〕〔(Genesee & Wyoming Signs Deal to Acquire Freightlink ) railway-technology.com 11 June 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Genesee & Wyoming Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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