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Railway Unions in Australia organised labour of railway employees in Australia operated under federal and State awards - this is a partial list of known unions. Many of the unions amalgamated over time, creating a complex trail of ancestry for some of the later unions.
The following unions were based on federal - Australian wide awards [1]
Some of the following unions were the railway related unions in Western Australia. [9]
The Noel Butlin Archives Centre at Australian National University is one of the more significant repositories of railway union records in Australia [17]
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