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Heritage Listings & Significance
The Former Eveleigh Rail yards were considered of world importance by the Smithsonian Institute and a number of listings on parts of the site appear on the NSW Heritage Register. In 2007 and 2008 attempts have been made to obtain National Heritage Listing for the Large Erecting Shop. In both these years the Large also featured in the National Trust's 10 most at risk heritage sites in Australia. Details of listings can be found here.
- Letter From Smithsonian Institutie on Importance of Eveleigh - 1988
- This is a letter from 1988 from The Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of American History Washington DC about the importance, and the great rarity of the machinery collection here at Eveleigh. The File is 927 KB PDF with OCR overlay.
- Federal Heritage Listings
- For the second year in a row The National Trust (NSW) and Friends of Eveleigh have nominated the Large Erecting Shop to try and gain a National Listing. Currently the Eveleigh Railway Workshops as a whole and the Chief Mechanical Engineers Office are registered. You can find the links to registered, nominated and rejected entries below:
- NSW Heritage Listings for Eveleigh Railyards
- The importance of the Former Eveleigh Railyards can be established by looking at the entries in the online NSW Heritage database. For ease of locating entries about Eveleigh we have provided the links to the various entries concerning the Eveleigh Railyards below:
- National Trust (NSW)
- The National Trust has an active concern for Eveleigh Rail Heritage, twice successfully nominating the Large Erecting Shop for the National Trust’s national top 10 Our Heritage at risk list. The National Trust (NSW) attended the Eveleigh Heritage Meeting on 28 October 2008 and outlined their concerns.
- Historical Material on the Eveleigh Railyard Re-development
- Here you will find some details on documents relating to the redevelopment of the Eveleigh Railyards. If you have a copy of any of the key reports REDWatch would appreciate a copy.
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Eveleigh 2008 - Railway Heritage Map
- The Friends of Eveleigh have produced this map of the former Eveleigh Rail Yards to show what remains of the former Eveleigh complex. While much has been removed key elements remain that could provide the focus for both active rail heritage and for heritage tourism. File is 415 KB PDF.
- The RWA Heritage SEPP Map
- This is the official RWA Heritage Planning map which shows the buildings recognised by the RWA as of Heritage significance. Such a precinct has great potential for heritage tourism if a well thought out heritage interpretation strategy is put in place. Note file is 3MB PDF.
- ATP Conservation Management Plan
- The 1995 Australian Technology Park Conservation Management Plan (CMP) can be found on the ATP website. This CMP is still current and provides the basis for Heritage Conservation decisions at the ATP. This is a scan of the original document and is a very large 17080KB.
- ATP Eveleigh Moveable Items
- The Moveable Heritage items at Eveleigh and their maintainence were originally covered in the "Eveleigh Workshops Management Plan for Moveable Items and Social History" by Godden Mackay in July 1996. Here we have posted Volume 1 and Volume 3 of the 1996 report. In September 2008 The Australian Technology Park undertook a Section 170 Register Overview Report by Futurepast Heritage Consulting P/L which was accepted by the Heritage Office. When the s170 report became publicly available on the ATP website in December 2009 some changes were made to the report. The original report recommended disposal of 13 of the items covered in the 1996 report. By making extracts of both these reports available it is possible to cross reference the proposed disposals. As the original 1996 document is a scan it is not searchable. To assist in the location of items we have constructed a text index. The Inventory number can then be matched to the rlevent PDF file with detailed information about the significance of a piece of equipment or an assemblabe in the 1996 Management Plan referenced in the 1995 Conservation management Plan which is available on the ATP website.
- Eveleigh Railyards Nominated for National Heritage Register
- Greater Eveleigh Railway Precinct has been nominated for the National Heritage Register by Friends of Eveleigh. Below you can see the details of the National Heritage Database. Supporters of the nomination in January 2011 included NSW's new Premier Barry O'Farrell and the new Planning and Infrastructure Minister Brad Hazzard who also becomes the Minister responsible for the RWA and SMDA.
