AGY-1647 | Railway Workshops Board of New South Wales

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The Railway Workshops Board of New South Wales was established on 1 July 1980 by the Transport Authorities Act 1980 (Act No.103, 1980) as a statutory subsidiary of the State Rail Authority to manage and develop the network of railway workshops. (1)

The Railway Workshops Board included three ex-officio State Rail Authority members the -

* Chief Executive Officer (Chairman)
* Deputy Chief Executive (Industrial Relations)
* General Manager, Workshops

plus three members appointed by the Minister that included -

* a representative of the private sector
* an employees elected representative
* a Labour Council Representative. (2)

The network of railway workshops for which the Railway Workshops Board could exercise any functions delegated to it by the State Rail Authority included: Locomotive Workshops, Cardiff; Locomotive Workshops, Chullora; Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops; Eveleigh Carriage Workshops; Wagon Maintenance Centre, Clyde; Bathurst Railway Workshops; Goulburn Railway Workshops; Electric  Car Workshops, Chullora (Elcar); the Suburban Car Workshop Redfern, and Structural Track and Signal Workshops, Chullora. Instead of the centralised structure of the preceding agency - the Workshops Branch (Public Transport Commission) - there were to be ten smaller business units allowing each workshop to have more autonomy/accountability through its own production, stores, quality and cost control. (3)

With the reconstitution of the State Rail Authority through the Transport Administration Act 1988 (Act No.109, 1988) commencing on 16 January 1989 the Railway Workshops Board was abolished. (4)

Endnotes
1. Transport Authorities Act 1980 (Act No.103, 1980), ss.4, 19 (1).
2. Ibid., s.19 (2)-(4).
3. State Rail Authority, Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986, p.50; Transport Authorities Act 1980, s.26 and Sch. 3.
4. Transport Administration Act 1988 (Act No.109, 1988), s.120, Sch. 7 cl.9 (1); NSW Government Gazette No.3, 16 January 1989, p.275.