page_title: Newport Workshops
section_title: Tenants
hierarchical_section_title: Newport Workshops / Tenants
caption_attribution_description: English: The south end of Newport workshops, near Nth Williamstown Station
context_page_description: The Newport Railway Workshops is a facility in the Melbourne suburb of Newport, Australia, that builds, maintains and refurbishes railway rollingstock. It is located between the Williamstown and Werribee railway lines.
context_section_description: Current revenue operations are carried out in the eastern section of the workshops by Downer Rail, who carry out work including locomotive and carriage maintenance, and diesel engine, bogie and wheelset overhauls; for customers including Pacific National and V/Line. The workshop also has the only broad gauge underfloor wheel lathe in Victoria. From 2018, it will build the High Capacity Metro Trains. A section of the workshops is leased to Siemens for maintenance of their Siemens Nexas trains.
  The original 1880s workshops have been maintained for heritage uses. The 'West Block' area are occupied by a number of railway preservation groups such as Steamrail Victoria, Diesel Electric Rail Motor Preservation Association Victoria and 707 Operations, while the 'East Block' has been retained by the Department of Infrastructure for the storage of disused trams and other rail rollingstock. The Newport Railway Museum is located south of the workshops, near North Williamstown railway station.
caption: South end of Newport Workshops, Downer Rail section in June 2008
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