Newport Railway Workshops West

The vintage inspired, Newport Railway Workshops West artwork by Kerrie Gottliebsen celebrates the incredible thriving workshop hub and snapshot of Railway and transport history based in Newport. A visit to the yards presents a breathtaking step back in time and one of the most beautiful displays of engineering history imaginable. A hive of bustling workshops and giant sheds containing trains, busses and trams in various states of glory or disrepair. The sheds have beautiful old wooden doors, hand painted old school signs and numbers.

At the peak of operation it was one of Victoria’s largest and best-equipped engineering establishments, with up to 5,000 employees on site.^[5] The workshops had its own cricket ground, and in the 1920s the game of Trugo is said to have been invented by workers on their lunch hour.^[1] In the late 1980s, the original segments of the workshops were removed from everyday use, with operations continuing at the 1930’s complex along the eastern side of the site.^[6]

On 15 January 2000, ownership of the workshops passed from the Public Transport Corporation to Clyde Engineering.^[7]

The Newport Railway Workshops West artwork can be ordered in A4, A3, A2, A1 and the super enormous A0.

For more information about the history of the Newport Railway Workshops visit here.