Goya Dmytryshchak
Hobsons Bay council has moved to prevent the state government’s planned removal of railway heritage groups from the heritage-listed Newport Railway Workshops.
The government recently indicated it wanted the heritage railway groups, who have run Steamrail Victoria and the 707 Operations volunteer groups restoring heritage trains at the workshops for nearly 30 years, moved off the heritage site, Cr Peter Hemphill told last week’s council meeting.
“Those that know me know that I am very passionate about preserving history and heritage,“ he said.
“A few weeks ago, the government released that document, ’Preserving our rail history – a blueprint for the future’, and it has a lot of detail in it but not enough to some degree.