Chullora Railway Workshops were a major workshops for the repair and heavy maintenance of locomotives and rolling stock for the

New South Wales Government Railways The New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) was the agency of the Government of New South Wales that administered rail transport in New South Wales, Australia, between 1855 and 1932. Management The agency was managed by a range of diffe ...

. It was built on site at

Chullora Chullora, a suburb in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown local government area, is located 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. ...

over 485 acres adjoining the main Sydney marshalling yards at Enfield. The decision to build a new workshop was made because of the inadequacy of the existing facilities at

Eveleigh Railway Workshops The Eveleigh Railway Workshops is a heritage-listed former New South Wales Government Railways yards and railway workshops and now venue hire, public housing and technology park located at Great Southern and Western railway, Redfern, City ...

and the decision to electrify the Sydney metropolitan network.Chullora Railway Workshops
Department of Environment & Heritage The master plan envisaged it would cover all aspects of railway operation with separate facilities for a locomotive workshop, carriage workshop, wagon repair depot, electric repair shop, signal engineers branch, general railway store, water supply and existing lines branch. In the late 1940s and 1950s, it built 600/700, 620/720 and DEB set railcars. The site began to wind down in the 1960s as operations were decentralised and the rail network contracted. The south western part of the site was sold for redevelopment with

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and

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both moving their Sydney printing factories to the site. In October 1984, the Sydney Freight Terminal opened on the site to replace

Darling Harbour Darling Harbour is a harbour adjacent to the city centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that is made up of a large recreational and pedestrian precinct that is situated on western outskirts of the Sydney central business district. Orig ...

. Despite $61 million being invested in the facility between 1980 and 1985, in March 1994, the

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electric carriage maintenance facility was closed with responsibility for maintaining the

CityRail CityRail was a passenger railway brand operated by the State Rail Authority from 1989 to 2003 and by RailCorp from 2003 to 2013 with services in and around Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, the three largest cities in New South Wales, Austra ...

fleet taken over by A Goninan & Co at a new facility in Auburn.

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have a facility on the site which has in recent years has assembled UGL Rail C44aci locomotives. In November 2018, plans were announced to move Transport Heritage NSW's heritage collection items from the

and

Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot (NSW depot number 2) was a large locomotive depot consisting of two roundhouse buildings and associated facilities constructed by the New South Wales Government Railways adjacent to the marshalling yard on the Main ...

to a new location in the Chullora Railway Workshops to be known as the Chullora Heritage Hub.A NEW CENTRE FOR HERITAGE TRANSPORT
NSW Government

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