Skip to main content

Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney
Multimedia
Construction of the railway at Circular Quay Ma...

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Construction of the railway at Circular Quay March 1948

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

Search

Browse

Browse
- Artefacts
- Buildings
- Events
- Natural Features
- Organisations
- People
- Places
- Structures
- Entries
- Multimedia
- Subjects
- Roles
- Contributors

Connections

Subjects

Construction Public transport Railway lines Railways Trams

Places

Circular Quay

Buildings

Circular Quay railway station Mort's Wool Stores, Circular Quay

Footer

Home
About
Copyright
Blog
Facebook
Twitter

State Library of New South Wales

Construction

Railway lines

Railways

Trams

Public transport

Circular Quay

full record »

Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Circular Quay railway station

Elevated railway station at Circular Quay that opened in 1956, completing the City Circle loop.

full record »

Mort's Wool Stores, Circular Quay

full record »

Large Italianate warehouse on the corner of Alfred and Young Streets at Circular Quay that was designed by Edmund Blacket in the 1860s for Mort & Co. The building was extended in the 1880s, and demolished in 1959 (by which time it was known as the Farmers and Graziers Building) to make way for the construction of the AMP Building.