The story of this place
The Eveleigh Railway Workshops opened in 1887 and for over a century, thousands of workers built and maintained the trains that connected New South Wales. At its peak, 3,000 men worked here in what was the Southern Hemisphere's largest industrial complex. The workshops were famous for their skilled workforce— boilermakers, fitters, and patternmakers who could fix anything. The site closed in 1989, but the vast red-brick buildings survived. Today, they house Carriageworks, one of Sydney's most innovative contemporary arts venues, where performance art replaces steam locomotives.