Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre

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Goulburn Railway Workshops
Location
Location12 Braidwood Road Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates 34°46′16″S149°42′41″E / 34.7711564°S 149.7114792°E / -34.7711564; 149.7114792
History
Opened1869
Closed1986
Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre
Established1989
TypeRailway museum
Nearest car parkOn site
Website www.roundhouse.org.au

The Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre is located at the heritage-listed former railway workshops in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, on the Main Southern railway line. Now a museum, it is also known as the Goulburn Rail Workshop and Goulburn Roundhouse. The workshops were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. [1] The workshops were saved from demolition by the Goulburn Locomotive Roundhouse Preservation Society [2] and is now a museum open to the public with large collection of rolling stock and various exhibits, as well as privately owned locomotives and carriages with some commercial repair work happening on site. [3]

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History

Following the completion of the first railway from Sydney to Parramatta Junction in 1855, proposals for the first railways to the rest of NSW included a line to the inland centre of Goulburn. A single line from Marulan to Goulburn opened on 27 May 1869. [4]

A depot was built by the New South Wales Government Railways on the southern outskirts of the town when the line from Sydney was opened to Goulburn in May 1869. In 1918, a 42 road roundhouse opened. [5]

Associated railway structures at Goulburn included the goods shed (1868), carriage shed (1869), engine shed (1869), a coal stage, water pump, turntable, and the station master’s residence (1870). [6]

The roundhouse was constructed of brick and corrugated iron in 1918 around a 27.4 metres (90 feet) electric-powered turntable.

The locomotive depot closed in July 1986 with its allocation of locomotives transferred to Junee Locomotive Depot, but remained as a stabling and refueling point for a few years. [7] [8] Goulburn City Council took out a lease on the roundhouse hoping to establish a national rail museum. [9]

The Goulburn Roundhouse Museum became home to several preserved locomotives with the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum transferring 2419 from Thirlmere in August 1989. [10]

In 1980, a wagon building and maintenance facility was constructed to the north of the roundhouse. In July 2006 this was transferred to UGL Rail. Following UGL Rail deciding to close the workshop in June 2010, [11] in September 2010 Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia signed a ten-year lease for the site to maintain both its locomotive and wagon fleets. [12] [13] [14] As well as maintaining its own fleet, Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia also perform maintenance for other operators including Aurizon.

Museum exhibits

The Museum has a collection of railway locomotives, carriages, wagons and other railway equipment including:

Steam Locomotives
NoDescriptionManufacturerYearLocationStatusRef
107270T accident crane Craven Brothers 1929Goulburnstored – out of service [15]
1076 0-6-0T Tank Engine Vulcan Foundry 1884Goulburnoperational(formerly 1804)
2419 2-6-0 goods Dübs and Company 1891Goulburnstatic exhibit Locomotive, Steam 2419
3085 4-6-4T passenger Eveleigh Railway Workshops 1912 Goulburn static exhibit NSW Locomotive, Steam 3085
5908 2-8-2 goods Baldwin Locomotive Works 1952Goulburnstatic exhibit Locomotive, Steam 5908
5916 2-8-2 goods Baldwin Locomotive Works 1952Goulburnstatic exhibit

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References

  1. ↑ "Railway Workshops (former)". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Department of Planning & Environment. H00601. Retrieved 2 June 2018. CC BY icon.svg Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence .
  2. ↑ Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre Archived 2013-12-29 at the Wayback Machine Trackside
  3. ↑ Goulburn Loco Roundhouse Preservation Society Inc Archived 2014-01-25 at the Wayback Machine NSW Rail Heritage
  4. ↑ Robert, Robert (2000). Colonial engineer.
  5. ↑ Goulburn railway group moveable relics Archived 22 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine Heritage Council of New South Wales
  6. ↑ Forsyth, J.H. (1989). Stations and tracks: V2: Main Southern Line.
  7. ↑ "Goulburn Loco Closes" Railway Digest August 1986 page 239
  8. ↑ "Goulburn Loco Closure" Railway Digest September 1986 page 278
  9. ↑ "Goulburn Roundhouse" Railway Digest March 1990 page 115
  10. ↑ "Rail Transport Museum" Railway Digest October 1989 page 353
  11. ↑ UGL shuts up shop Archived 16 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine Goulburn Post 7 May 2010
  12. ↑ Bright Future for Goulburn Railway Workshops Archived 18 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia 2 September 2010
  13. ↑ Workshops roll ahead Archived 20 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine Goulburn Post 12 June 2012
  14. ↑ "Born in Chicago" Railway Digest November 2012 page 34
  15. ↑ "Craven 70T Breakdown Crane". Internet Forum. Breakdown Crane Association. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
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