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Crowds leaving a shelter in Hyde Park after the 'all clear' has been given c1942

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State Library of Victoria
[H99.201/3739]
(Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs)

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City Underground

The creation of a city railway was a central concern for town planners in Sydney from almost the moment that the first railway was opened in 1855. Initially the main terminus was in Cleveland Paddocks on the outskirts of the city, meaning commuters coming into town were required to alight from the train and transfer to trams, hansom cabs or omnibuses to continue into the city. The underground City Circle, and the city as we know it, took one hundred years to be completed.

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Park providing green space in Sydney's busy centre.