Suburban Car Workshop East

The east end of the Suburban Car Workshop at the Eveleigh Paint Shop opens through a set of large industrial roller doors into the rail yard outside. In this photograph, looking toward the east end, the workshop's five rail roads converge toward the doors, the tracks set flush into the concrete slab floor. The sawtooth roof above runs along the length of the hall, glazing in the north-facing panels admitting an even daylight that holds steady through the day. Heritage carriages sit on two of the tracks at the east end, their bodies clear of the roller doors. Structural steel columns support the roof along the centre line of the building.

The 1912 iron-clad extension of the Eveleigh Paint Shop, of which this east-end view is part, was added to the original 1887 brick main wing to accommodate the growing suburban carriage fleet of the early twentieth century. The east end of the hall connects to the broader Carriage Works yard at North Eveleigh, with the rail roads continuing out into the network beyond the building. The hall closed with the rest of the Carriage Works in 1989. Since then it has held the heritage rolling stock now under the care of Historic Electric Traction, with the working life of the building continuing under the volunteer restoration program.