Toll Rail

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Overview
Toll Rail
DAR 517 in Toll Rail colours. Photo Andrew Hamblyn

Reporting marks:	TOLL, TRH
Locale:	From Otiria in the north to Bluff in the south
Dates of operation:	2003—present
Track gauge:	1067 mm (narrow gauge)
Locomotives:	170 (est 2005)
Headquarters:	Takapuna, Auckland

Toll Rail, commonly Toll, is the only long-haul railway operator in New Zealand. Headquartered in Auckland, it is the main trading division of Toll NZ. It operates on over 3,898 km of track.

The company was formed in 2003 when Australian transport giant Toll Holdings purchased an 85% stake in Tranz Rail Holdings. In January 2004 the company's name was changed to Toll NZ Holdings and a new board was installed.

1 Major businesses
2 Track network and facilities
3 Statistics
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Major businesses

Toll is a large transporter of West Coast coal on the spectacular Midland Line. The company is also a major transporter of auto parts and completed vehicles. It operates intermodal container trains. It is also a large transporter of fertilizer, steel, timber] and milk.

Along with freight, Toll also operates two passenger service divisions - Tranz Scenic and Tranz Metro.

According to its 2003 Annual Report to Investors, Toll had more than 4,000 employees, 140 locomotives, and 4,000 wagons (freight cars).

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[edit] Track network and facilities

Largely a transporter of bulk commodities, Toll operates on 3,898 kilometres of track to nearly all major towns and cities in both the North and South Islands. It operates on track owned by the ONTRACK, subject to an annual access fee.

The company has major rail yards in:

Main locomotive depots are in

[edit] Statistics

Network owned by ONTRACK and used by Toll:
- Route length: 3,898 km
- Track gauge: 1067 mm (narrow gauge)
- Tunnels: 149
- Bridges: 2,178
- Electrification: 95 km at 1.5 kV DC, 411 km at 25 kV 50Hz AC

Locomotives (in service):
- Electric: 15 - EF class
- Diesel-electric main line : 158 - DAR class (1), DC class (70), DBR class (10), DFT class (29), DX class (48) DQ class (3) and DJ class (1).
- Shunting :DH (6) DSC (44) DSG (24) DSJ (5)
- Rail Tractors: TR (40?)
Wagons:
- Container flat tops: 2,263
- Hi-cube wagons: 78
- Canopies: 120
- Box: 409
- Hopper: 245
- Curtain-sided wagons: 107
- Refrigerated (chilled wagons): 52
- Log: 436
- Tank: 101
- Flat-top (flats) wagons: 120