New South Wales Rail Transport Museum

MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT UPGRADE INFORMATION

Stage One of the Rail Heritage Centre Thirlmere upgrade, the Roundhouse Maintenance Centre was completed late in October 2009. The Centre was officially opened by the local member and Minister for Water and Minister for Regional Development Mr Phillip Costa MP.

During late October, it was announced by RailCorp that Robson Constructions, in association with Stephen Edwards Constructions were the successful tenderer for Stage Two of the Thirlmere Upgrade Project.

Stage Two includes site soil remediation, demolition of existing locomotive maintenance and parts storage buildings, remediation and sealing of the walkways in the existing exhibition building, upgrading of the Dick Zillman Memorial Building and Workshop, demolition of the existing shop and small exhibits building, the construction of the new Major Exhibits Building and the landscaping of the surrounding grounds.

The site was formerly handed over to Robson Constructions on Monday 2 November. A perimeter exclusion fence was immediately constructed around the construction area where work commenced immediately.

The work progress will be illustrated by photographs that will be presented each calendar month with previous work being available as an archive so that the progress can be viewed from the beginning.

12 JUNE 2010

Major Exhibits Building frame has almost reached completion.
Major Exhibits Building viewed from the arrival track near the Co-op Shed. The photograph was taken at the location of where the centre of the turntable was previously located.

Link Building track looking back towards Dick's Shed. Note the core drilled holes on the concrete for the rail fasteners.
Link Building track showing connecting points to arrival road. The footings for the Link Building frames can be seen.

Link Building access into the Major Exhibits Building. The track for "Cardiff Corner" can be seen inside the left hand side of the building.
Link track access into the Major Exhibits building. This is where Locomotive E18 and D 5940 will be displayed as part of an early goods train exhibition.

The open function area in the north eastern corner of the Major Exhibits Building. In the centre of the photograph underneath the sheet of plastic, the track panel for Crane Locomotive 1034 can be seen.
The Royal Train bay with adjacent viewing platform. The track from this bay will connect across the area where the former turntable was located.

This will be the new entrance and shop location for the Museum.
Looking into the second exhibit track where Locomotive 78 and the Eight Wheel Radial Carriage will eventually be displayed. The nearest frame column on the left of the photograph is where the northern end of the building will be located..
See earlier development progress:
STAGE 2 - EXHIBITION BUILDINGS:
19 May 2010 | 8 May 2010 | 1 May 2010 | 24 April 2010 | 10 April 2010 | 27 March 2010 | 13 March 2010 | 20 February 2010 | 6 February 2010 | 23 January 2010 | 16 January 2010 | 9 January 2010 | 16 December 2009 | 12 December 2009 | 2 December 2009 | 25 November 2009 | 11 November 2009 | 6 November 2009
STAGE 1 - THE MAINTENANCE DEPOT:
October 2009 | September 2009 | July 2009 | Late June 2009 | Early June 2009 | May 2009 | April 2009 | March 2009 | February 2009 | January 2009

Last updated 17/6/10