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Eveleigh Sydney, New South Wales
National Innovation Centre, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh
Postcode:	2015
Location:	3 km (2 mi) from CBD
LGA:	City of Sydney
State District:	Heffron
Federal Division:	Sydney
Suburbs around Eveleigh: Newtown Darlington Redfern Newtown Eveleigh Redfern Erskineville Alexandria Waterloo

Eveleigh is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Eveleigh is located about 3 km south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. The postcode is 2015.

Eveleigh was named after the estate of Lieutenant J. R. Holden, so called after his birthplace in England. Much of the suburb of Redfern was known as Eveleigh in the early days. In fact, Redfern railway station was originally known as Eveleigh railway station. The Eveleigh railway yards were located immediately south-west of the station.

Following the nationalisation of failed private railways, construction began in the early 1880s on a new workshops complex, occupying an area of over sixty acres, bounded by North Newtown, Erskineville, Redfern, Alexandria and Chippendale. Originally the workshops serviced and repaired the growing NSW rail fleet, but in 1908 Eveleigh began manufacturing steam locomotives. By this time more than 3000 people were employed at the site^[1]. Many workers lived in the area, but many lived in other suburbs and until the 1980s commuting workers alighted at the purpose-built Macdonaldtown Station, located in the middle of the complex.

The Eveleigh Workshops are of great significance to Australia's industrial, military and social history. Eveleigh manufactured the first steam locomotives made in Australia, and it contains the most complete set of late nineteenth and early twentieth century light and medium engineering technologies in Australia^[2] (much of which is now preserved in an industrial museum in Bays 1 and 2 of the old Locomotive Workshop). The Eveleigh site was also used to manufacture munitions in both World War I and World War II. It is also significant in the history of Australian unionism -- in 1892 unions successfully negotiated to establish a six-day working week, and the 1917 General Strike, which began with the 3000 workers at Eveleigh, eventually spread across Australia, involving almost 100,000 nationwide^[3].

The locomotive workshop was closed in 1988^[4] and the main rail workshops were moved to Enfield. In 1989 part of the site was briefly used to house the relocated Paddy's Market.

In 1991 the NSW Government established a consortium including the University of Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney and UNSW which transformed Alexandria side of the workshops site into the Australian Technology Park. Another section of the old workshops, which faces onto Wilson St, has recently been converted into a large theatre space^[5].

Australian Technology Park ^[6] occupies the site of the former Eveleigh railway yards. It is the home of a growing community of researchers, entrepreneurs, incubator businesses, start-ups, mature technology companies and education organisations.

The suburb is also the subject of development proposals to create new high density housing (see Redfern-Eveleigh-Darlington) and commercial developments.

Access to electricity cable tunnel, Vice Chancellor's Oval

International Business Centre

Path from Redfern railway station to the Australian Technology Park

Old traverser which was used to move carriages between roads in the railway workshops

1. ^ Teaching Heritage: Historian's perspective on the Eveleigh workshops
2. ^ Teaching Heritage: Heritage value of the Eveleigh workshops
3. ^ Teaching Heritage: Chronology of Eveleigh Workshops
4. ^ Teaching Heritage: Chronology of Eveleigh Workshops
5. ^ Performance Space
6. ^ Australian Technology Park

• Eveleigh, New South Wales is at coordinates 33°53′42″S 151°11′28″E / -33.895, 151.191Coordinates: 33°53′42″S 151°11′28″E / -33.895, 151.191

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