Alexandria Goods Yard opens.

New Locomotive Workshops Pattern Shop completed.

New Foundry constructed at the Locomotive Workshops.

Large numbers of Aboriginal people migrate from rural areas to Redfern and surrounds with hope of employment. The largest employer of Redfern’s inhabitants is the Eveleigh Railway Workshops.

The Governor-General's carriage is used by the Prince of Wales when he lays the foundation stone of Parliament House in Canberra.

Four identical C36 class locomotive boilers are installed and adapted as stationary boilers in the Boiler House Annexe Bay 3. These remain in-situ today.

Spring Shop activity peaks at Eveleigh.

J.S.T. McGowen dies of heart disease on 7 April and is buried in the Anglican section of Rookwood Cemetery. A cenotaph is dedicated for J.S.T. McGowen at St Paul's Church, Redfern in November.

A Davy Press (1,500 ton capacity) is installed, together with a new crane and two boilers and an intensifier to provide steam to drive the compressor which drives the press.

Australian Railways Union (ARU) Shop Committee is established at Eveleigh Railway Workshops.

From 1924 to 1927 ten boilers of the C36 class are built at Eveleigh.

NSW Premier Jack Lang upholds his pledge to restore General Strikers’ positions.

Manufacture of new steam locomotives at Eveleigh ceases (temporarily, as it will turn out in 1945).

NSW Railways acquires Chullora site for new railway workshops that are intended to supersede Eveleigh Railway Workshops.

The first public train runs from Central to Oatley on 1 March.

The Governor-General's carriage is used by the Duke and Duchess of York when they visit Australia to open Federal Parliament.

Premier Jack Lang abolishes the card and bonus systems in the NSW Railways that was introduced following the General Strike.

Premier Jack Lang speaks to supporters outside the Eveleigh Railway Workshops.

Government decides to add diesel engine trains to the Sydney fleet.

Chullora Railway Workshop opens – all locomotive construction work transfers from Eveleigh to Chullora.

Bays 5 and 6 are cleared of machinery for production of 25lb field shells as part of World War II efforts.

William McKell, a former boiler maker, becomes Premier of NSW.

Eileen Powell, the union organiser for Railway Refreshment Room staff joins with Jack Fergurson, the ARU secretary, before the Equal Pay Conference to argue that women who replace men should be paid the male rate.

Air raid shelters are constructed across Eveleigh. Some remain today to the north of the Locomotive Workshops within the rail corridor.

Locomotive construction is reintroduced to Eveleigh Railway Workshops until 1952.

A hail storm on New Year's Day destroys glass roof of the workshops.

William McKell becomes Governor-General of Australia, having previously worked at Eveleigh as a boilermaker.

Spring making activity is at its height at Eveleigh. It manufactures or repairs an average of 33,200 laminated springs and 25,500 coiled springs per year for locomotives, carriages and wagons on the NSW system.

Governor-General's carriage is used by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip during the royal visit to Australia.

The Aboriginal Australian Fellowship is established by Pearl Gibbs and Faith Bandler.

Last Bay of the original Running Shed is demolished.

Land in the vicinity of Eveleigh and houses at Alexandria are resumed for the Eastern Suburbs railway line.

Steam locomotion is abandoned.

Redfern Mail Exchange is built.

20 CWT (hundredweight) hammer in the Blacksmith's Shop closes as there is no longer any work for it.