Eveleigh Railway Workshops

The Eveleigh Railway Workshops was the main railway workshop for the New South Wales Government Railways and considered to have world heritage significance by curators of the Smithsonian Institution.

The workshops were conceived by Engineer-in-Charge John Whitton to build and maintain the infrastructure for the railway system, eventually becoming the largest railway workshops in the southern hemisphere and operated for over 100 years.

From 1884-1986 the workshops overhauled, repaired, modified and built new locomotives for New South Wales Government Railways. Classes of successful locomotives from the small C30 Class through the C38 Class and D58 Classes and assembly of the largest AD60 Class locomotives.

Eveleigh Railway Workshops consisted 15 Bays featuring:

Built between 1884-1887 were originally designed for maintenance and repair of wagons and carriages. Later new carriages were designed and manufactured. Bays in the Carriage Workshops were numbered 16-25 over 20,000 square metres. A separate building housed the paint shop.

On 3 May 1968, the Air-Conditioned Depot (ACDEP) opened as the home depot for all long distance , and taking over the function from Flemington Maintenance Depot. It also serviced carriages off the Spirit of Progress and Indian Pacific. From March 1971, it took over the maintenance on the DEB railcar sets.

The locomotive workshop was closed in 1988 and the main rail workshops were moved to Enfield. From 1988 part of the workshop was used as the Tangara commissioning centre before being rebuilt as the Xplorer-Endeavour Service Centre in 1994. In 2002 the former ACDEP site was redeveloped as Eveleigh Maintenance Centre, which today is operated by Downer EDi Rail and serves both Sydney Trains's Millennium and Oscar sets.

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