Evolving Eveleigh

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1970

Eveleigh Railway Workshops are modernised to meet demands for servicing and repairing modern diesels and rolling stock.
1979

Eastern Suburbs platforms open.
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1986

Restored Steam Locomotive 3801 commences tourist operations from Eveleigh Railway Workshops’ Large Erecting Shop under the management of 3801 Limited.
1986

On 27 June Eveleigh Locomotive Depot officially closes, signalling the gradual closure of the workshops.
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1989

Paddy's Markets relocates from Haymarket to Bays 5 to 15. Remaining machinery is relocated to Bays 1 to 4.
1989

Most of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops close and the great machines are silent. Demolition of numerous Eveleigh Railway Workshops buildings including Pattern Shop, Foundry and Smith's Shops.
1989

In February the Eveleigh Railway Workshops close.
1991

Australian Technology Park works commence.
1992

Australian Technology Park is formally established.
1994

Paddy's Market returns to Haymarket.

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An Indigenous Place

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.

40,000 BC

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.

1788

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.

1789

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.

1791

James Chisholm arrives in the colony of New South Wales aged 19 as a non-commissioned officer.

1793

Settler David Collins observes Cadigal people performing a ceremony “between the town and the brickfield”.