Much of NSW’s industrial and labour history is linked to the the Eveleigh rail yards. A workers register was started in 1999 with a proposal for a Worker’s Wall on the site from that time now being investigated by the RWA. There is however not just a need for a Wall to remember the workers there is also a need for a repository of memorabilia and oral history to capture and convey some of the stories and social history of the people who worked and lived in the area and who made the rail ways work. Here you will find some ideas of how this element could be incorporated into a heritage interpretation for Eveleigh.
In this section
- Issues pertaining to absence of attention to the intangible cultural heritage associated with the NSW Eveleigh Railway Workshops.
The following was presented by Associate Professor Lucy Taksa, PhD Director, UNSW Industrial Relations Research Centre, University of NSW and presented to the Heritage meeting about the future of the Eveleigh Railyards in Ocxtober 2008. Dr Taksa is an eminent Labour Historian and has written widell