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Enginemans Resthouse is a heritage-listed former railway workers' cottage, now private residence, at 39 Brandling Street, Alexandria, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1902 to 1903.
Eveleigh Railway Workshops. South Eveleigh (previously known as Australian Technology Park) is a retail business centre and technology park 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of the Sydney central business district and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Sydney Airport. South Eveleigh borders Alexandria and Eveleigh.
Alexandria is an inner southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Alexandria is located 5 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney .
The station's name was chosen to honour William Redfern. At that time, the present Redfern station was known as Eveleigh. [3] When Central station was built further north on the site of the Devonshire Street cemetery, Eveleigh station became Redfern and Eveleigh was retained for the name of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, south of
Eveleigh Railway Workshops. The Eveleigh Railway Workshops are of great significance to Australia's industrial, military and social history. Eveleigh manufactured the first steam locomotives made in Australia, and it contains the most complete set of late nineteenth and early twentieth century light and medium engineering technologies in Australia [4] (much of which is now preserved in an ...
Six partners made up the new partnership including William Hutchinson, Daniel Cooper, Thomas White Melville Winder, Samuel Terry, George Williams and William Leverton [4] trading as Hutchinson, Terry & Co. [5] William Hutchinson, superintendent of convicts and public works, had been granted 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) of land in 1823 [6] in the ...
A station was opened in 1876 1.3 kilometres (1 mi) west of the original Redfern and named Eveleigh, after an old home located on the western side of the railway line. [3] In 1885 Eveleigh's platforms were reconstructed at its present site, and was renamed Redfern on 21 October 1906, shortly after the current Central railway station was opened ...
Redfern Town Hall opened in 1870 and the Albert Cricket Ground in 1864. Redfern Post Office came in 1882. [1] [4] [5]: 219–220 The majority of houses in Redfern in the 1850s were of timber. From the 1850s market gardeners congregated in Alexandria south of McEvoy Street, around Shea's Creek and Bourke Road. [1] [4] [5]: 219–220