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Ambulance trams, Randwick Tramway Workshops 1915

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Ambulance trams, Randwick Tramway Workshops 1915

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

Statutory body established by the State Records Act 1998. The Act provides for the creation, management and protection of the records of public offices of the State and for public access to those records.

Based at Kingswood, State Archives and Records NSW manage and provide access to the New South Wales State archives collection, a unique and irreplaceable part of Australia's cultural heritage dating back to 1788.

Trams

Trams had a rocky start in Sydney, with the first tracks laid upside down, causing many accidents and leading to their removal. The International Exhibition of 1879 brought trams back to Sydney and a network was built that became one of the world's largest at its greatest extent in 1922. Economic and social changes after World War II led to the dismantling of the network, with the last tram running in 1961.

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Randwick

South-eastern, primarily residential suburb. Named after the home town of Simeon Pearce in Gloucestershire, England, it is the location of the Randwick Racecourse and Prince of Wales Hospital.

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Randwick Tramway Workshops

Complex which contained some of the earliest industrial buildings of the suburb of Randwick. It was built to service the steam locomotives between the city and Randwick Racecourse before it was used as workshops for the production of heavy artillery during World War I and II. It then became the last resting place of many obsolete hulks after the final trams ran in 1961, before it was converted to a bus depot and workshops and closed in 1988.

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