Eveleigh, New South Wales

Eveleigh Sydney, New South Wales
Old Eveleigh Railway Workshops now Australian Technology Park
Population	473 (2011 census)
Postcode(s)	2015
Location	3 km (2 mi) south of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	City of Sydney
State electorate(s)	Newtown
Federal Division(s)	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 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney.

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 60 acres (240,000 m²), bounded by North Newtown, Darlington, 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. 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.

Included in the complex was a running shed, opened in 1884, for steam locomotives used in the daily duties of train haulage. Originally of three bays, the first was demolished about 1925 and the remaining two in the early 1960s.

In 1989, part of the site was used to house Paddy's Markets, while the original site at Haymarket was being redeveloped.