South Eveleigh is home to what was once a large-scale 19th century railway workshop known as the The Eveleigh Railway Workshops. Today, the workshops are one of Australia’s most significant heritage listed sites due to their major contribution towards the establishment, operation and growth of the NSW railways and the greater development of NSW from the 19th century onwards.

The Locomotive Workshops were the heart of the Eveleigh Railway enterprise and were opened in 1887 by the NSW government for the maintenance and manufacture of steam locomotives. Once considered the largest and most technologically advanced workshops in the southern hemisphere, the workshops acted as the primary centre of railway construction in NSW until the opening of Chullora Workshops in 1923.