FUTURE OF RAILWAY HERITAGE IN NSW
Reece McDougall Director NSW Heritage Office
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m1 Railway Heritage Estate
CHARACTERISTICS
• Covers a broad range of buildings, works, sites and movable heritage items
• Has high community interest and support
• Bulk of items are under the ownership and control of Government
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 1 Slide 2 m1 mcdougr, 6/09/2005 Statutory Listings – Railway items
HO Database (HOD) • (LEP’s, S.170 + SHR) total 1702 Railway items • S.170 Railway listings 854 (Government owned)
SHR • 272 items • 236 in Government ownership
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Listing Consequences
STATE HERITAGE REGISTER • Heritage Council Approval • Minimum Maintenance Standards
SECTION 170 HERITAGE REGISTER • Ministerial Principles and Heritage Council Guidelines •HAMS • Register Finalised
LEP HERITAGE SCHEDULE • Notification to local council
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 2 STATE HERITAGE REGISTER – Railway items
• SHR was established 1996
• Announced through “NSW Government Heritage Policy” Minister Knowles
• Included previous PCOs 1937 Rail Paybus. SHR 2003. RTM Thirlmere
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Celebration !
eg Commissioners Carriages, SHR 2003
Albury Station. SHR 1999
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 3 Celebration !
eg Commissioners Carriages, SHR 2003
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Government Management NSW Heritage Act 1977 • S.170 provisions established 1987
• NSW government owns + manages bulk of heritage items in NSW
• NSW government agencies to conserve and manage heritage assets and ‘lead by example and demonstrate exemplary heritage management’ (Refshauge 2000 Heritage Policy)
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 4 Section 170 –NSW Heritage Act 1977 1999 changes • obliged government agencies to do more than list significant heritage assets in their ownership;
• to effectively conserve and manage their heritage (Section 170(A);
2004 update • Release of State Heritage Guide
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Section 170 – State Heritage Guide
•provides clarification to NSW agencies about heritage issues and opportunities when managing its assets
•consistent with NSW Government Total Asset Management (TAM) policy
2006 January: Completion date for HAMS
2009: Completion date for S.170(6) Heritage & Conservation Registers
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 5 KEY ISSUES
• Complexity of ownership
• Upgrade requirements vs heritage
• Redundancy and adaptive reuse
• Movable heritage and rolling stock
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Government Rail Entities – a ever changing environment?
• Rail Corp
• RIC
• State Rail demise
• Freight Corp
• Australian Rail Track Corporation
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 6 UPGRADES VS HERITAGE
• Modernisation of stations
• Providing for disabled access and security
• New technologies
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REDUNDANCY AND ADAPTIVE REUSE • Maintenance and security of orphan assets
• Ownership and management
• Adaptive reuse options
• Funding, insurance and liability Issues
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 7 MOVABLE HERITAGE & ROLLING STOCK
• Ownership and Control
• Inventory and Disposal Policy
• Basic needs, funding, maintenance and long term conservation
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NSW Rail Preservation Entities
• Rail Transport Museum, Thirlmere • The Rail Motor Society Inc. Peak Organisations: • 3801 Limited • Zig Zag Railway Co-op Ltd, Lithgow • The Rail Motor Society, Paterson • Historic Electric Traction (HET) •Rail Heritage Australia (NSW) Inc • Central West Railway Preservation • Sydney Electric Train Society (SETS) • Richmond Vale Railway Society, Orange •Association Of Railway • Cooma Monaro Railway Inc. • Silverton Railway Museum Preservation Groups • Dumaresq Railway Preservation • Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum (NSW) Incorporated Society • Tocumwal Railway Preservation • Glenreagh Mountain Railway Committee •Australian Railway • Hunter Valley Railway Trust • Rothbury Riot Railway And Steam Historical Society, ACT • Illawarra Light Railway Museum Museum Group Ltd • Lachlan Valley Railway Society Co- • Yass Railway Museum operative Limited, Cowra • Canberra Railway Museum • Goulburn Crookwell Heritage Railway • Lithgow State Mine & Railway • Sydney Tramway Museum • Steam Tram & Railway Preservation Society
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 8 RailCorp Movable Heritage assets
• 28 April 2004, RailCorp, Rail Infrastructure Corporation (RIC) and State Rail endorsed the process for developing a Heritage Asset Management Strategy.
• Including establishment of Heritage Asset Management Strategy Steering Committee.
• establishment of Rolling Stock Selection Committee – to review S.170 movable heritage register and identify core collection
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Basic Needs
• Adequate Storage Facility
• Workshop
• Available Skills
• Sydney Metropolitan Base
• Regional Support Areas
• Appropriate Management Entity
• Marketing Tourism Plan
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NSW Heritage Office - Working together to preserve our heritage 9 Funding Maintenance and Long Term Conservation
• Government involvement
• Viability of business
• Partnerships and integrated approaches
• Heritage Council role
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Where to from here
• Heritage Office/ Heritage Council
• Government
• Private Organisations
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