Current Activities
The NSWRTM is now getting ready for a development to the museum with an interactive experiences and operational facility for the museum's and the state's railway heritage future. The museum will get help from Railcorp's Office Of Rail Heritage and the operational facility will be opened in 2009 and the museum's interactive experiences will be opened in 2010. The museum's new roundhouse was officially opened on November 9, 2009, for Railcorp employees. On display were 3642 on the turntable and 3526, 2705 and the Powerhouse Museum's 3265 sitting in the roundhouse. The opening to public will on Saturday, March 6, 2010 during its Steam Spectacular weekend marking the start of the Steam Season 2010.
Work on stage two of the museum upgrade began in November 2009, which included demolition of the existing locomotive maintenance building, construction of a new major exhibits building and other works. The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum was re-opened in April 2011, and is now known as TRAINWORKS. Some of the exhibits have been moved to Broadmeadow and Goulburn depots' for storage. The rest has been move to the mainline that connects the museum to the NSW railway.
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