The Electric Carriage Workshops, often abbreviated to Elcar, was the principal maintenance centre for the

New South Wales Government Railways The New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) was the agency of the Government of New South Wales that administered rail transport in New South Wales, Australia, between 1855 and 1932. Management The agency was managed by a range of differe ...

electric multiple unit fleet. Construction commenced in 1922, coinciding with the electrification of the Sydney network. It was located within the

Chullora Railway Workshops Chullora Railway Workshops were a major workshops for the repair and heavy maintenance of locomotives and rolling stock for the New South Wales Government Railways. It was built on site at Chullora over 485 acres adjoining the main Sydney marshal ...

complex on a site. It was not electrified until 1939 requiring carriages to be hauled to and from the works by steam locomotive. Elcar had a railway station that was served by worker's trains at shift changeover times. It closed in March 1994, when maintenance of

CityRail CityRail was a passenger railway brand operated by the State Rail Authority from 1989 to 2003 and by RailCorp from 2003 to 2013 with services in and around Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, the three largest cities in New South Wales, Australia ...

's electric fleet was taken over by UGL Rail's Maintrain facility at

Auburn Auburn may refer to: Places Australia * Auburn, New South Wales * City of Auburn, the local government area *Electoral district of Auburn *Auburn, Queensland, a locality in the Western Downs Region *Auburn, South Australia *Auburn, Tasmania *Aub ...

. The site has been redeveloped as the Chullora Resource Recovery Park.Chullora Resource Recovery Park
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