Gemco Rail

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Gemco Rail
TypePublic
Headquarters
Number of locations
Forrestfield, Gladstone, Dynon, Telarah
ProductsRolling stock maintenance & manufacture
$87m (June 2020)
$12m (June 2020)
Number of employees
225
Parent Engenco
Subsidiaries Rail Bearing Refurbishment Services
Website www.gemcorail.com.au

Gemco Rail is a Western Australian company specialising in the remanufacturing and repair of railway locomotives, wagons, track maintenance equipment, bearings and other railway components. [1]

Formed in 1987 [2] it is based in Forrestfield, Perth. [3] In July 2007 Gemco Rail was purchased by Coote Industrial. [4]

Gemco Rail has manufactured items of track maintenance equipment [5] and intermodal container wagons. [6] It has also overhauled locomotives for fellow Engenco subsidiary Greentrains. [7] and rebuilt some former State Rail Authority RUB carriages as crew carriages for SCT Logistics.

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References

  1. Annual Report 30 June 2013 Engenco
  2. Gemco Rail Pty Ltd ACN 079 764 444 Australian Securities & Investments Commission
  3. Contact Us Archived 8 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Gemco Rail
  4. CXG Acquires GEMCO Rail shares for $33.8m Coote Industrial 18 August 2007
  5. Gemco Rail Built Rail Train Goes on Track Gemco Rail 7 August 2009
  6. Coote Industrial Ltd (ASX:CXG) awarded $40M in rail wagon contracts Finance News Network 26 May 2010
  7. Maintenance & Manufacture Archived 8 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Gemco Rail