Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
The former Eveleigh Railyards are one of the most important industrial and heritage sites in Sydney – they also have International significance. For many years Government did not see value in this her
Some of the finest historic railway engineering workshops in the world are located just south of Sydney’s Central Railway Station adjoining Redfern Railway Station (originally called Eveleigh) writes Graham Quint of National Trust NSW in the February 2009 issue of Trust News Australia. Read More…
This paper by Dr Lucy Taksa was presented at the Interpretation Australia conference in 2007. The paper compares Eveleigh with other workshops around Australia. The paper can be found at www.interpretationaustralia.asn.au/Default.aspx?TAG=IAA.Web.Public.Resources.Proceedings.2007 as Taksa, L. (2007) ‘Nostalgia or Nostophobia?: Trends in the interpretation of Australia’s railway industrial heritage’, Building Blocks – Interpretation Australia Association National Conference, … 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…
In its recent mini-budget, the NSW Government announced its plans to privatise the Australian Technology Park (ATP) – 13.9 hectares of industrial space within cooee of the city centre reports Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008. Read More…
This is a copy of the ATP’s Eveleigh Heritage Trail produced in 2004 as a self guided heritage tour arround the Technology Park. File is 601 PDF. Download: Eveleigh Heritage Trail.pdf »
Associate Professor Lucy Taksa (Director, Industrial Relations Research Centre and Australian School of Business, UNSW) launched the Worker’s Register with Premier Bob Carr (whose father worked at Eveleigh) on 29 August 1999 at an open day held by the ATP. Her proposal was not only the register but also a keeping place for the social … Read more
This is the official RWA Heritage Planning map which shows the buildings recognised by the RWA as of Heritage significance. Such a precinct has great potential for heritage tourism if a well thought out heritage interpretation strategy is put in place. Note file is 3MB PDF. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/rwass/060828SEPPheritage/view
The future shape of north Eveleigh is currently being determined by the Department of Planning. Following consideration of exhibition submissions the RWA has produced a Preferred Project Plan for the Department to assess. Here you can find out more about the issues at North Eveleigh. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/northeveleigh/nemp
This is the sum total of the RWA Heritage interpretation Strategy for the Former Eveleigh Railyards as at October 2008. While the HIS was prepared as part of the North Eveleigh preferred Project Proposal it indicates the RWA is considering a wider heritage strategy across the site. The Eveleigh Heritage Meeting of 28 October 2008 … Read more
Dear Kristina Keneally, Re: The blacksmithing workshop at Eveleigh. Thank- you for you letter 27 August in reply to my correspondence. You may have heard that following a media campaign, along with the support of the community, and ex-Eveleigh workers, we still have tenure. Whilst we want to put the stress and disruption of the … Read more