Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Under the RWA proposed zoning the Large Erecting Shop could be replaced by an up to 12 storey building and the current heritage rail tours, maintenance and training being undertaken from the site coul
On 30 November 2018 Transport for NSW announced a new Heritage transport centre at Chullora. The media release below, along with the factsheet also below, made specific reference to the Large Erecting Shop (LES) at Eveleigh as being “adapted for new uses”. The ATP sale sale to Mirvac contained a pro Read More…
PUT the name Rowling into a story about a famous train and most people will think the Hogwarts Express reports Mark O’Brien in the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader of 19 February 2009. Read More…
In the extract below RailCorp CEO provides one person who wrote to the Minister for transport about the Large Erecting Shop with some encouraging news that “RailCorp’s plan for the Large Erecting Shop is consistent with the Friends of Eveleigh proposal that the workshop be retained for continuing ra Read More…
Under the RWA proposed zoning the Large Erecting Shop could be replaced by an up to 12 storey building and the ongoing heritage rail tours, maintenance and training could have been lost. There has been a long campaign to save the this operational heritage and RailCorps decision to retain the building for heritage rail use … Read more
In their submission to the NSW Tourism Review Friends of Eveleigh have spelt out their vision for how the Large Erecting Shop could continue as a functional Heritage Railway Workshop servicing rail heritage throughout the state while at the same time providing a tourist destination for public access into the “Large” to view heritage rail … Read more