Since 1982
Second generation. First principles.
An Australian-owned family business designing, building and servicing rail maintenance equipment from Newcastle NSW — the same way we started: practical, robust and built to perform.
Our story
Built in Newcastle, worked everywhere
Melvelle Engineering opened its doors in 1982, and when the second generation of the family purchased the company in 2007 it became Melvelle Equipment. The name changed — the approach didn't. We still design, manufacture and service everything from our own facility in Newcastle NSW.
Today the range covers more than 250 products — rail track maintenance equipment, geotechnical drill rigs, portable hydraulic equipment and hand tools — sold in every state and territory of Australia and exported around the world.
We never stop building. New products are prototyped, tested, field trialled and released as an ongoing development program, shaped by what our customers tell us they need on track. The brief is always the same: practical in nature, easily maintained, robust in design, outstanding performance.
1982
Established in Newcastle
250+
Products in the range
8/8
Every Australian state & territory
Inside Melvelle
Take a walk through
From the front office to the workshop floor — design, manufacture and service, all under one roof in Newcastle. Thirty seconds inside the place your equipment is built.
- Through reception
- Onto the workshop floor
- Welding & fabrication
- The Mazak CNC & robot cell
How we're organised
Three divisions, one roof
Design, manufacture and service all live in the same Newcastle facility — so the engineer who drew your machine is a short walk from the tradesperson who built it and the technician who services it.
Design
Every Melvelle product starts with a technical problem a customer is facing on track. Our qualified mechanical engineers and dedicated drafting staff model each design as a fully functioning virtual product in Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD — so it's proven on screen before a single part is cut.
Manufacture
Our Newcastle facility is fully self-reliant, running CNC and manually operated machinery side by side. Qualified trades people build every product and feed what they learn on the floor straight back into continual improvement — nothing leaves the workshop we wouldn't put on our own track.
Service & Parts
Our service technicians work onsite or in-house for all servicing and periodical inspections. As the OEM we stock a full range of spare parts for our own machines, offer competitively priced parts for other branded components, and run onsite training and information days on request.
Equipment hire
Need it for a project, not forever?
We hire rail maintenance equipment on request for both short and long term projects, despatched Australia-wide. Call the office for availability, rates and bookings.
Trusted partners
Brands we carry
Alongside our own manufactured range, we distribute and support equipment from the world's leading rail and industrial brands.
Talk to the people who build it
Call our Newcastle team about any product, part or project — you'll speak to someone who knows the equipment first-hand.