Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
British artist blacksmith Jake James has worked all over the world, but the seven-hundredweight Massey power hammer at the Eveleigh locomotive blacksmithing bay in Sydney’s Redfern was the biggest he had ever used writes Julie Power in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 25, 2013. Read More…
In the following extract from ATP News of 7 April 2010, ATPPML advised details of the heritage plans for Innovation Plaza, Bays 1 & 2 and Heritage Lighting around the ATP. Read More…
In this Heritage Update: Redfern Waterloo Heritage Taskforce (RWHT) – Terms of Reference / Redfern Waterloo Heritage Taskforce (RWHT) Call for Projects / ATP Conservation Management Plan (CMP) Input / ATP S170 Heritage Register Overview Report & Moveable Heritage at ATP. This is an update was prepar Read More…
Australian Technology Park (ATP) has commissioned Godden Mackay Logan, heritage consultants, to prepare a new Conservation Management Plan for the ATP site. This provides an opportunity for stakeholders, interested parties and local community members to reflect on the significance of the former Eveleigh locomotive workshops and the changes that have occurred to the ATP site … Read more
In this Heritage Update: RWA Heritage Taskforce Established / ATP Conservation Management Plan (CMP) Consultation – 7th December 2009 / ATP S170 Heritage Register Overview Report & Moveable Heritage at ATP / ATP – Channel 7 Building Community Information Meeting – Tuesday 15th December 6-8pm Read More…
Heritage-listed Victorian-era railway equipment is to be disposed of prior to the State Government’s sale of Australian Technology Park, according to a community group writes Gareth Narunsky in City News on 3 December 2009. Read More…
The Australian Technology Park is trying to dispose of a collection of rare and unique heritage machines that former workers at the Eveleigh rail yards were promised would be preserved reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 2 December 2009. Read More…
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…
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…
The Conservation Management Plan in June 1996 provided a catalogue of all the significant heritage items (over 200). It detailed their significance, current condition and detailed a conservation policy and maintainence schedule for each item. The Technology Park was given a heritage grant to implement the the CMP but did not undertake the required work. … Read more
As has been shown by the attendance at the Open Day to save the Operational Heritage Blacksmith in the Australian Technology Park, there is substantial interest in this site which preserves former Eveleigh rail yard equipment and operational skills. Having fought to preserve an operating Blacksmith the challenge is to turn this area into an … Read more
