Electric Carriage Workshops

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|location = Muir Road, Chullora

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|owner = State Rail Authority

|operator = CityRail

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|opened = 1920s

|closed = 1994

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The Electric Carriage Workshops, often abbreviated to Elcar, was the principal maintenance centre for the New South Wales Government Railways electric multiple unit fleet. Construction commenced in 1922, coinciding with the electrification of the Sydney network. It was located within the Chullora Railway Workshops complex on a {{convert|106|hectare|acre|adj=on}} site.[http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=4801108 Chullora Railway Workshops] NSW Environment & Heritage It was not electrified until 1939 requiring carriages to be hauled to and from the works by steam locomotive.{{cite book|last1=Oakes|first1=John|title=Sydney's Forgotten Goods Railways|date=2001|publisher=Australian Railway Historical Society|isbn=0 909650 54 3|pages=85–87}}

Elcar had a railway station that was served by worker's trains at shift changeover times.[http://www.nswrail.net/locations/show.php?name=NSW:Elcar Elcar] NSWrail.net

It closed in March 1994, when maintenance of CityRail's electric fleet was taken over by UGL Rail's Maintrain facility at Auburn."Goninan's Maintrain Centre Officially Opened" Railway Digest May 1994 page 9 The site has been redeveloped as the Chullora Resource Recovery Park.[http://www.sita.com.au/facilities/resource-recovery-recycling-facilities/chullora-resource-recovery-park/ Chullora Resource Recovery Park] Sita Australia