6-602: The Auburn Maintenance Centre is a train depot operated by Downer Rail responsible for the maintenance of the Sydney Trains A , B and M set fleets. As part of the contract to build and maintain the Sydney Trains A sets , John Holland built a depot on the site of the former Clyde Marshalling Yards adjacent to the MainTrain facility. It was opened by Minister for Transport John Robertson on 24 July 2010. On 20 September 2014, an 11 road stabling facility
12-825: The Yarra Trams franchise in Melbourne . In July 2014, Keolis Downer commenced operating the G:link light rail line on the Gold Coast . In March 2015, Keolis Downer purchased bus operator Australian Transit Enterprises which operates the Hornibrook Bus Lines , Link SA, Path Transit and SouthLink operations with 930 buses. Downer Rail has manufactured items of rolling stock at its factories in Cardiff , Somerton , Maryborough and Port Augusta . As
18-533: The merger of Evans Deakin Industries and Downer Group to form Downer EDi . In July 2007 the division was renamed Downer Rail and in 2018 it merged with Downer's Infrastructure Services division to form Transport and Infrastructure. The history of Downer Rail began in 1867 when Walkers Limited opened a branch in Maryborough. In 1980 Walkers Limited was sold to Evans Deakin Industries and included in
24-522: The merger with Downer EDi . Evans Deakin operated the former Clyde Engineering plants at Kelso and Somerton and Walkers Limited , Maryborough plant. It had recently reopened the former Cardiff Locomotive Workshops to build CityRail M sets . In 2008 Locomotive Demand Power was established as a subsidiary to lease locomotives. In November 2009 Downer Rail became a tram operator through its 49% shareholding in Keolis Downer that operates
30-585: The whole facility stretching for two kilometres. De Voung : Former BMX Bandits stunt rider Downer Rail Downer Rail is a business unit within the Downer Group . As well as manufacturing and maintaining railway rolling stock it holds maintenance contracts to maintain rail infrastructure. The head office is located in North Ryde . The EDI Rail division was formed in March 2001 following
36-492: Was established to the south-east of the facility. Provision has been made for an extra five roads. In February 2017, it was revealed that subsidence had occurred underneath the depot after plastic cells had failed. Remediation costs have been estimated as high as $ 70 million. During 2018, maintenance of the Sydney Trains M set fleet was moved to Auburn from Eveleigh Railway Workshops . The maintenance centre building has seven roads. It has stabling facilities on either side with
#829170