The Newport Workshops Open Days is Australia's largest gathering and festival of steam locomotives and railway organisations, which takes place every two years over the Victorian Labor Day long weekend. This video was produced in 2022, and is a great precursor and preview of the upcoming Newport Workshops Open Days 2024. Organised by Steamrail Victoria, one of the state's largest and premiere mainline heritage organisations and railtour operators in the state.

Newport Workshops is located in Melbourne, Australia, 12km from the Melbourne city centre, and is an extensive railway maintenance and overhaul facility. Newport's "West Block" is where railway preservation organisations and heritage mainline railtour operators, which is where the Open Days takes place.

Steamrail Victoria
https://www.steamrail.com.au/
https://www.steamrail.com.au/opendays (Open Days 2024 details and booking information)

Will James' Promotional video
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Newport Railway Workshops Preservation Group
http://www.nrwpg.com.au/home/
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Public Records Office Victoria
Main Page - https://prov.vic.gov.au/
Railway Collection - https://tinyurl.com/47tsuy4m

707 Operations
https://707operations.com.au/

DERMPAV
https://www.dermpav.net.au/

Puffing Billy Climax Locomotive page
https://puffingbilly.com.au/about/rol...

Newport Railway Museum
https://newportrailwaymuseum.org.au/

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Video Closed Captions is by Rev.com, and are created to allow more clarifty and accessibility for those who may be hearing impaired to enjoy the video.

Presenter, Camera and Editing by Maikha Ly
Equipment used: Canon M50, Canon 7D, RODE Wireless GO II, GoPro 7, DJI Mini 2 Drone, iPhone 13 Pro
Edited on: Adobe Premiere Pro
Music: Epidemic Sound

Thanks to:
Steamrail Victoria - Lionel Camilleri, Warren Hall and Noah Clancey,
Haydn Williams (For the lifts he provided me to/from Melbourne Airport!)

Thanks to contributors of photographic and video content:
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