Mood 'pretty sombre' as Bathurst's Downer EDI plant shuts down

By Kate Burke
Updated May 1 2014 - 7:15am, first published 3:30am
END OF THE LINE: After more than 40 years maintaining locomotives and rail traction motors, the Downer EDI complex at Kelso ceased operations yesterday. Pictured is a locomotive in the Downer EDI complex in November 2013. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK 	110513cedi3
END OF THE LINE: After more than 40 years maintaining locomotives and rail traction motors, the Downer EDI complex at Kelso ceased operations yesterday. Pictured is a locomotive in the Downer EDI complex in November 2013. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK 110513cedi3

AFTER more than 40 years, production at the Downer EDI facility at Kelso reached the end of the line on Wednesday. 

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