AGY-2034 | Workshops Branch [II]

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The Workshops Branch was reconstituted under the State Rail Authority on 1 July 1980. The Chief Executive was the General Manager, Workshops to whom the managers of each of the Railway Workshops and Maintenance Centres reported. (1)

The network of railway workshops under 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. (2)

The General Manager was an ex-officio member of the Railway Workshops Board from 1 July 1980 until 16 January 1989 when that Board was abolished. (3)

Endnotes
1. Transport Authorities Act 1980 (Act No.103, 1980), ss.4, 19.
2. State Rail Authority, Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986, p.50; Transport Authorities Act 1980, s.26 (2) and Sch. 3.
3. Transport Authorities Act 1980 s.19 (3)(c); 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.