Suburban Car Workshop

The Suburban Car Workshop section of the Eveleigh Paint Shop is the 1912 iron-clad extension added to the original 1887 brick main wing. The hall holds five rail roads, each separated by structural steel columns supporting the sawtooth roof above. The cladding is corrugated iron on a steel frame, painted pale grey on the inside and weathered to a darker tone on the outside. Timber-framed sash windows run along the upper edge of the north-facing wall, glazed in clear panes. The concrete slab floor carries the rail tracks set flush. In this photograph the hall is mostly empty of carriages, with a single restoration project on one track at the far end.

The 1912 extension was added to the Paint Shop to accommodate the growing suburban carriage fleet that came in with the network's expansion through the Edwardian era. The Suburban Car Workshops handled finishing and repaint work on the carriages running Sydney's suburban services through to closure in 1989, the last of the Carriage Works to shut down. The 1912 extension is graded Moderate Significance on the NSW State Heritage Register (item N16 within the broader Eveleigh listing 01141); the original brick main wing is graded Exceptional Significance. The hall now serves the Historic Electric Traction volunteer restoration program.