Rail First: Australia’s only domestic manufacturer of rail wagons.
Rail First offers customers a complete range of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services. We have two main locations in Goulburn, NSW, and Islington, SA.
Rail First Maintenance Services' Goulburn maintenance facility is located on the Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane rail corridor. The workshops are specially designed to offer a full range of services. These include overhauling, maintaining, modifying, and painting locomotives, freight wagons, and passenger cars. Maintenance of heavy plant and equipment, Hi-Rail fitting, servicing and repair & more. Our team of service technicians offers field services in other states and regions. We support locomotives and wagons to meet our customers' needs. This helps ensure a quick turnaround and maximises train use.
✔ Maintenance & Repair Overhaul and Repair. Major component change out. Body and underframe repairs
✔ Paint Shop Specialised blasting, Graffiti resistant and graffiti removal, Zinc, epoxy and polyurethane & large wash bay
✔ Field Services – Rollingstock 24/7 access to service technicians, Servicing for locomotives, wagons and passenger cars
Maintenance
- Major component change out
- Major component overhaul
- Bogie overhaul
- Traction motor overhaul and change out
- Combos change out
- Lettered servicing
- Wheel machining
- Body and underframe repairs
Field Services
- Service technicians to regional areas
- In-field body repairs
- In-field air brake repairs
- Servicing for locomotives, wagons and passenger cars
Paint Shop
- Specialised blasting
- Specialised paint booth
- Single Pac painting
- Light and heavy industrial coatings
- Graffiti resistant and graffiti removal
- Heat resistant coatings
- Aviation coatings
- Zinc, epoxy and polyurethane
- Signage and decal work
Fabrication
- Steel fabrication
- Fitting & mechanical servicing
- Pressure vessel work
- Welding – Stick, Mig & Tig
- Profile cutting
Rail First Islington maintenance facility is located on the Melbourne-Adelaide-Perth rail corridor. The workshops are purpose-built to perform the complete range services, including engineering design, overhaul, maintenance, modification, and painting of locomotives, freight wagons, and passenger cars. Along with on-site services, our team of technicians offers field services in other areas. We support locomotives and wagons to meet our customers' needs for a quick turnaround. This helps to maximise train use.
✔ Maintenance & Repair Overhaul and Repair. Major component change out. Body and underframe repairs
✔ Field Services 24/7 access to service technicians, Servicing for locomotives, wagons and passenger cars
✔ Air Brake Servicing Overhaul brake, triple values, testing and calibration. Repairs to air cylinders
Maintenance
- Major component change out
- Major component overhaul
- Bogie overhaul
- Traction motor overhaul and change out
- Combos change out
- Lettered servicing
- Wheel machining
- Body and underframe repairs
Field Services
- Service technicians to regional areas
- In-field body repairs
- In-field air brake repairs
- Servicing for locomotives, wagons and passenger cars
Paint Shop
- Specialised blasting
- Specialised paint booth
- Single Pac painting
- Light and heavy industrial coatings
- Graffiti resistant and graffiti removal
- Heat resistant coatings
- Aviation coatings
- Zinc, epoxy and polyurethane
- Signage and decal work
Carriage
(Passenger & Crew Cars)
- Steel fabrication
- Fitting & mechanical servicing
- Pressure vessel work
- Welding – Stick, Mig & Tig
- Profile cutting
