Images contributed by Ron Tognetti pertaining to Eveleigh Railway Yards. Images include Eveleigh workers, trains and machinery.
Images contributed by Ron Tognetti pertaining to Eveleigh Railway Yards. Images include Eveleigh workers, trains and machinery.
Images contributed by Brian Dunnett. Images include the Trains of Treasure exhibition, Eveleigh workers and machinery.
A poem regarding the death of a shunter. Published in the The Bulletin, 1903
A page from Eveleigh News 13th April 1955. Includes a cartoon of a German soldier with two other figures and a poem, titled 'Menzies speaks to the US Senate'.
A history of the railway heritage of NSW. Includes a variety of historic images.
A publication listing the events planned for the bicentennial.
The annual report of the health fund. Included is a copy of the 1998 Annual Report and Balance Sheet.
A collection of cartoons and poems from 'The Railroad'
An edition of Magnet. Magnet is a publication of the Railway and affiliated shop committees.
A report related to the unions at Eveligh Railway Yards.
A cartoon from the NSW Railway and Tramway Magazine. Titled 'The Midnight Mail'.
Published in a variety of languages, this publication considers the changes in the rail network and workshops.
Eveleigh is Gadigal country. We acknowledge their ownership of this land and pay our respects to past, present and emerging elders.
The second half of the nineteenth century saw a rapid expansion in New South Wales railways. In Sydney, this meant both the early stations and workshop facilities quickly became too small, and had to be expanded or relocated.
Pre contact – Members of Cadigal, or Gadigal, people inhabit Redfern, Erskineville and surrounds. The Gadigal Traditional Owners who today speak for the Sydney clan area stretched “from the south side of Port Jackson from South Head to Petersham”. The Gadigal people spoke the coastal Eora dialect of the Darug language and are often referred to as the Eora people. Redfern as a site was important to its people because it had a source of water – Shea's Creek, which today is Alexandra Canal, as well as a source of food from the wetlands that drained into the creek. Redfern’s high point on the terrain offered views of the trade route from Circular Quay to Parramatta, on which the colony’s first railway would be built. These trade routes connected with larger routes which linked the north and south, and east and west of Australia. Not only goods, but ideas, songs, ceremonies and news travelled along these routes.
The British arrive in January with catastrophic effect on the Aboriginal way of life. The Eora people do not flee, as Captain James Cook predicted, but stand their ground. Governor Phillip attempts to create good relations, but these soon disintegrate due to the persecution of the Aboriginals by the convicts. The Aboriginals are pushed out of Sydney town with fear of being shot, and with the quick pollution of the Tank Stream by tanneries, they are forced to use water sources near Redfern.
The smallpox plague devastates the Aboriginal people. Without immunity to the disease brought by the British, a large percentage of the Cadigal clan is wiped out. Following the plague, survivors from surrounding clans join together to survive, and to participate in the guerrilla movement led by Pemulwuy.
James Chisholm arrives in the colony of New South Wales aged 19 as a non-commissioned officer.
Settler David Collins observes Cadigal people performing a ceremony “between the town and the brickfield”.