# NSW picks former coalmine for $12 billion train factory

> The government chooses a Lake Macquarie site over Newcastle to build the next generation of passenger trains and revive local manufacturing.
- Title: NSW picks former coalmine for $12 billion train factory · Abc
- Summary: The government chooses a Lake Macquarie site over Newcastle to build the next generation of passenger trains and revive local manufacturing. NSW government…
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- Source: Abc — https://abc.net.au/news/2026-10-20/coalmine-site-chosen-for-train-manufacturing-facility/107283046
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- Topics: nsw government, train manufacturing, teralba coalmine, lake macquarie, hunter region, future fleet program, chris minns, news, politics
## NSW picks Teralba for train factory
The NSW government has chosen a former coalmine site at Teralba in Lake Macquarie as its preferred location for a state-owned train manufacturing facility, backed by a twelve billion dollar commitment.
## Why Teralba beat Broadmeadow
The government selected Teralba over the Broadmeadow locomotive depot in Newcastle after finding it was a larger and more flexible site that could accommodate train manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and on-site dynamic testing with capacity for…
## Jobs and the Tangara fleet
The facility is expected to support up to seven hundred eighty jobs during construction and about five hundred fifty ongoing jobs across the facility and supply chains. It will manufacture the Tangara replacement fleet.
## Reviving Hunter manufacturing heritage
The Hunter has a long history of rail manufacturing. Newcastle firm Goninan, founded in eighteen ninety-nine, built the Tangara trains at Broadmeadow in the late nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties, and the Millennium fleet later…
## Bringing jobs back home
Premier Chris Minns said the project would build on the state's manufacturing capacity. For more than a century, workers in the Hunter proudly built the trains that carried millions of people around Sydney, then those…

> For more than a century, workers in the Hunter proudly built the trains that carried millions of people around Sydney. Then those jobs were sent overseas.
## Three decades of train building ahead
The Lake Macquarie facility will host the next thirty years of train manufacturing in NSW, starting with the new Tangara replacement fleet before future replacement programs for the Millennium and OSCAR fleets in the twenty…
## Key takeaway

NSW government selects a former Teralba coalmine as the preferred site for a state-owned train factory to build the next generation of passenger trains, backed by a twelve billion dollar commitment.