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Chullora Railway Workshops

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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.
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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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both moving their Sydney printing factories to the site. In October 1984, the Sydney Freight Terminal opened on the site to replace
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were a major workshops for the repair and heavy maintenance of locomotives and rolling stock for the
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to a new location in the Chullora Railway Workshops to be known as the Chullora Heritage Hub.
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electric carriage maintenance facility was closed with responsibility for maintaining the
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have a facility on the site which has in recent years has assembled
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and the decision to electrify the Sydney metropolitan network.
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Index

New South Wales Government Railways
Chullora
Sydney
Enfield
Eveleigh Railway Workshops
600/700
620/720
DEB set
Fairfax Media
News Limited
Darling Harbour
Elcar
CityRail
A Goninan & Co
Auburn
UGL Rail
UGL Rail C44aci
Transport Heritage NSW's
Eveleigh Railway Workshops
Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot


Chullora Railway Workshops
ISBN
0-909650-23-3
Railway Digest
A NEW CENTRE FOR HERITAGE TRANSPORT
Categories
Defunct locomotive manufacturers of Australia
Defunct railway workshops of Australia

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