Dictionary of Sydney
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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Railways

Subject
City Underground
Electrification of the Sydney Suburban Train Network
Funeral trains
Granville rail disaster 1977
Great Strike of 1917
Sydney's Metropolitan Goods Lines
The North Shore Line
The Railways of Sydney: Shaping the City and its Commerce
The Royal National Park Line
City and Suburban Electric Railways (Amendment) Act 1947
City and Suburban Electric Railways Act 1915
Sydney Railway Waltz
The Flemington to Belmore and Wardell Road to Glebe Island and Darling Harbour Railways Act (No 17) 1910
The Railway Guide of New South Wales
Sydney Freight Terminal
Eveleigh Railway Workshop robbery
Royal Commission on City and Suburban Railways 1890
Australian Railway Historical Society
Department of Railways
Scenic World
Sydney Railway Company
Bradfield, JJC
Chifley, Ben
Eddy, Edward
Evans, George Trotter
Fletcher, Joseph
McRae, Miles
Oliver, Charles
Whitton, John
Woore, Thomas
Enfield Marshalling Yards
Eveleigh railway workshops
Flemington Car Sidings
Railway Square
Campsie - Flemington Goods Line
City Circle railway
Como railway bridge
Elcar
First Hawkesbury River railway bridge
Hawkesbury River railway bridge
Knapsack Viaduct
Lewisham viaduct
Main Western Line
Meadowbank railway bridge
North Shore railway line
Northern Sydney Freight Corridor
Scenic Railway
Southern Sydney Freight Line
Sydney Metro
Sydney to Parramatta Railway
Victoria bridge Penrith
Zig Zag Railway
Electric train (DD S Set S15) at the second Royal National Park Station c1980
'Rookwood Cemetery Departs From Mortuary Platform', indicator board at Powerhouse Museum 17 April 2015
2-6-2T locomotive No 2612 heads the NSW School Railway Clubs Association special train at Royal National Park station 15 October 1960
A Railway along Pitt Street - diagram of city railway and connections 1926
Bird's eye view of Sydney showing the proposed city and suburban electric railways 1915
Captain M'Lerie laying the keystone of the viaduct on the Parramatta Railway, 17 March 1855
Commonwealth Railways locomotive GM11 hauling freight train, including L class locomotive, leaving Enfield 1951
Como Bridge July 2007
Como Bridge June 2007
Como from new station 1921-25
Como railway bridge and station c1905
Como railway bridge c1905
Construction of the railway at Circular Quay March 1948
Cover 'Souvenir Handbook of Cronulla and district, issued to commemorate the Opening of the Direct Electric Railway from Sydney to Cronulla 16th December, 1939'
Cover of 'Report on the proposed electric railways for the City of Sydney' by JJC Bradfield, published in 1916
Detail of a plan of Necropolis at Haslem's Creek shewing the appropriations for the various religious denominations 1868
Detail showing Sydney terminus from Woolcott & Clarke’s Map of the City of Sydney, with the environs of Balmain and Glebe, Chippendale, Redfern, Paddington & Co 1854
Eastern Suburbs Railway line viaduct construction
Eveleigh Carriageworks, Redfern 2010
Existing and projected Sydney railways 1926
First electric train on main span of Sydney Harbour Bridge 11 March 1932
Floating span into position c1888
Granville rail disaster 18 January 1977
Granville rail disaster 18 January 1977
Granville rail disaster 18 January 1977
Interior of No 2 shed at Enfield locomotive depot, 20 class locomotive on seventy five foot turntable, c1928
Interior of St James' Underground Railway Station, Sydney 1926
Local train to Sydney hauled by locomotive 3070 near Toongabbie, 6 October 1947
Machining tank annex, Chullora Elcar c1945
Meadowbank Railway Bridge 2004
Men at work on railway bridge near Petersham, Battle Bridge Creek c1885
Monorail structure 1988-2013, Pyrmont Bridge 2005
Newtown Railway Station c1895
No1 Mortuary Railway station, Rookwood Cemetery - funeral train in station c1870
North Shore railway terminus (St Leonards) c1890s
North Sydney 1957
Opening of the North Shore Terminal at Lavender Bay 29 April 1893
Paying Passengers on the Electric Service 1 March 1926
Plan of grounds to be appropriated for Sydney Railway, 1849
Portrait of Dr JJC Bradfield 1920s
Poster announcing opening of North Sydney railway 29 April 1893
Proposed horse drawn railway 1857
Rail pay bus on trial run to Moss Vale 1937
Railway Building, Wynyard Square c1940
Railway House interior c1945
Railway Junction Estate, North Shore, for auction sale on the ground, Saturday 17th Octr 1885, 3.30 pm
Railway bridge, Como 1886
Railway bridge, Como c1905
Railway map Sydney City Underground Railway:Locations of Stations and Entrances 1939
Railway map Sydney Suburban Railway 1939
Railway to the Circular Quay c1890
Reclamation at Cooks River 1888
Reconnaissance map of the Como Railway Bridge and adjacent country 1894
Spade presented to Annie Thomasine Parkes....on the occasion of her turning the first sod of the St Leonards to Pearce's Corner [Hornsby] Railway 1887
Staff from the Eveleigh workshops 1949
Sutherland station with first single deck electric train to Cronulla 15 December 1939
Sydney Railway Station c1885
Sydney Railway Waltz, dedicated to Wm Randle Esq, composed by WH Paling 1855
Sydney's existing railways (shown black) and the future railways (shown white) September 1926
Temporary platform at Royal National Park station c1975
The Fish, the train from Sydney to Mount Victoria 8 April 1943
The Katoomba Colliery Scenic Railway c1935
The New Goods Railway February 1911
The Sydney City Railway: the Great Excavator 1923
Tools from the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops embedded in a mosaic, Erskineville 2009
Toongabbie railway station c1885
Town Hall Station - low level tracks 19 May 1930
Township of Brooklyn, Hawkesbury River - Hawkesbury St, William St, George St, Bridge St, 1883
Travel for 6d on the city circle c1960
Turning the first turf of the first railway in the Australasian colonies at Redfern, Sydney, N.S.W. 3rd July 1850
Unloading coal at Katoomba railway station, under snow, 1950s
Unused tunnel at St James Railway Station 16 January 2016
West Botany, Illawarra Railway route: large blocks of land for sale in the estate of the late John Archibald Cunningham 1881
Women commuters, one using a typewriter and another knitting, on The Fish, the train from Sydney to Mount Victoria 8 April 1943