Day Trips
Opal Day to Everleigh Railway Workshop
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DATE: Tuesday 24th June 2025
MEETING: Chatswood Railway Station, platform 3
TIME: 10:15am
​RETURN: Meet at Redfern Station at 2pm
For over a hundred years, the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop was the largest and most technologically advanced blacksmiths’ workshop in the Southern Hemisphere.
Opened in 1887 by the New South Wales government for the maintenance and manufacture of steam locomotives, also repairs to train carriages. It continued to operate until 1988. Two intact operating bays remain – both of which are inhabited by Eveleigh Works.
According to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., Eveleigh contains “the largest and most integral collection of Victorian blacksmithing equipment, in terms of integrity and extent, known in the western world.” They use a large portion of this heritage equipment, for training groups.​​​​​
Opal Day to Springwood
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WHEN: Tuesday 22nd July 2025.
MEETING: Seven Hill Railway Station Platform 3
MEETING TIME: 10.25am
TRAIN DEPARTS: 10.38 am on Platform 3
ARRIVES: Springwood 11.32 am
LUNCH: We will have lunch 12pm at The Royal Hotel directly opposite the station only a short stroll. At members cost.
After lunch there should be plenty of time for a stroll through the shops before our return train. This is an interesting little village.
RETURN TRAIN: 2.55 pm on Platform 1
ARRIVE: Seven Hills 3.48 pm
Final date for notification of attendance is Thursday 10th July 2025.
Prince Henry Hospital Museum
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WHEN: Tuesday 26th August 2025.
PICK UP: Wrights Road Community Centre
TIME: 8.15 am for an 8.30 am departure.
MORNING TEA: Will be before we do the tour of Prince Henry Hospital Museum.
LUNCH: Will be a 2-course lunch at the Yarra Bay Sailing Club, after our tour.
PRICE: $95 per person min of 30 people. $110 per person min of 20 people.
After lunch we will continue with our tour of Southern Beaches to Watsons Bay, Coogee, Bronte, Tamarama and Bondi and finish through Vaucluse- Rose Bay- Double Bay and Woollahra. Arrive back at Wrights Rd approx. 5.00 pm.
The Prince Henry Hospital Trained Nurses & Medical Museum came into being as the result of the need to preserve our nursing and medical history. Did you know that the famous Coast/Prince Henry Hospital finally closed its doors 17th December 2003 after 122 years of service to the ill and injured in NSW. The hospital came into existence in 1881 because Sydney was in the throes of a smallpox epidemic, the Quarantine station of North Head was overcrowded and the population alarmed.
A race to be the first hospital in Australia to do open heart surgery created intense interest. Prince Henry lost that challenge but won the second challenge, the first kidney transplant in NSW happened at the Prince Henry Hospital 5th August 1965 under direction of the famous Dr Murnaghan. The story of this hospital’s contribution to nursing history and medical science is a long one and our two-hour guided tour will provide a great insight into part of our history. At the conclusion of the tour we will visit the Nurses War Memorial Chapel.