Phillip Shirley

The Phillip Shirley at the Eveleigh Paint Shop is a heritage carriage carrying the Phillip Shirley name on a brass nameplate fixed to the body side. The carriage is a long passenger car in the chocolate-and-cream NSW Government Railways livery, sitting on the workshop's restoration tracks among the rest of the heritage collection. The body sides show riveted steel construction; the windows along the side are the original sliding-sash type. End vestibules carry standard sliding doors. The Phillip Shirley nameplate is brass, polished, fixed with countersunk screws and lettered in the traditional railway typeface. The carriage is the same general size and configuration as the rest of the long-distance fleet held at the workshop.

Naming individual NSW Government Railways carriages after public figures and railway personnel was a long tradition on the long-distance and special-service fleet. Each named carriage carried the name across its body side or on a separate nameplate, and the name typically stayed with the carriage for its working life. The Phillip Shirley is one of the named carriages held at the Eveleigh Paint Shop by the Historic Electric Traction heritage group. The carriage has been retired from regular service and is held for restoration. Its specific service history is documented in the group's own records.