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Railway

Type - Railway
Abattoirs rail line
Botany Goods Line
Campsie - Flemington Goods Line
City Circle railway
Darling Harbour - Sydney Yards Goods Line
Eastern Suburbs railway line
Elcar
Flying Junctions
Illawarra railway line
Main Western Line
Metropolitan Goods Lines
North Shore railway line
Northern Sydney Freight Corridor
Royal National Park railway line
Rozelle - Darling Harbour Goods Line
Scenic Railway
Southern Sydney Freight Line
Sydney Metro
Sydney Metro Northwest
Sydney to Parramatta Railway
Wardell Road Junction
Zig Zag Railway

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Railway

Abattoirs rail line

Part of the Metropolitan Goods Lines network which served the State Abattoirs  and other industries at Homebush.

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Botany Goods Line

Freight line that runs from Marrickville to Port Botany. After the proposal for the line being approved by the New South Wales Parliament in 1913, work commenced on the line in 1915 then ceased in 1917 before beginning again in 1921. The line opened in October 1925 and was extended in 1929 to provide access to the Bunnerong Power Stations.

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Campsie - Flemington Goods Line

Freight line that is part of the city's network of Metropolitan Goods Lines and provides access to the Enfield Marshalling Yard. The Belmore to Flemington section of the line opened on 11 April 1916.

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City Circle railway

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Mainly underground passenger railway line beneath the Sydney central business district.

Darling Harbour - Sydney Yards Goods Line

Railway line specifically for freight built in 1855 between the Sydney yards, near today's Central Station, and Darling Harbour. Extensions to the line followed in the early 20th century. Part of the line was converted into an elevated urban pedestrian walkway and park, called The Goods Line, in 2012.

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Eastern Suburbs railway line

Railway line that runs between Redfern and Bondi Junction, usually as an extension of the Illawarra line. Proposed as part of Bradfield's design for the city rail network in 1926, it wasn't opened until 1979.

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Elcar

Elcar was the electric carriage maintenance facility at Chullora Railway Workshops. The facility was closed in March 1994.

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Flying Junctions

Series of flyover tracks between the Cleveland Street bridge at Redfern and Central railways stations that allow trains to move from any one line to another without crossing a line in the opposing direction. They were constructed in 1926 and were the largest construction of their type in the world.

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Illawarra railway line

Suburban railway line constructed in the 1880s that runs from the city to Sydney's southern suburbs and then on to Wollongong and Kiama. The Cronulla branch line from Sutherland was opened in 1939.

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Main Western Line

Extension of the suburban western line from Sydney to western New South Wales, with the line running to Bourke in the far west via the Blue Mountains and Bathurst. Also known as the Great Western Railway, the first extension of the line from Parramatta to Blacktown was completed in 1860, and then from Blacktown to Penrith in 1863. The extension beyond Penrith began in 1867 and was completed at Bourke in 1885.

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Metropolitan Goods Lines

Rail network which allowed freight trains to move throughout metropolitan Sydney independent of the passenger train network. 

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North Shore railway line

Sydney's first purely suburban railway line that runs from the city to Hornsby in Sydney's north.

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Northern Sydney Freight Corridor

Infrastructure program of upgrades and improvements between 2012 and 2016 to separate freight and passenger traffic at various points on rail lines running between Strathfield and Newcastle and increase capacity for transporting freight. Included the extension of existing dedicated freight lines under the passenger lines at North Strathfield.

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Royal National Park railway line

Short 1.9km branch line between Loftus railway station and the Royal National Park railway station that opened in 1886 to provide access to a military training camp in the park at Audley. The line closed in 1991 but was reopened in 1992 as part of the Sydney Tramway Museum's facilities.

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Rozelle - Darling Harbour Goods Line

Freight line that ran from Dulwich Hill to Rozelle and Darling Harbour. The first part of the line between the Sydney yards and Darling Harbour was built in 1855, with extensions built between 1913 and 1922. After many years of disuse, much of the corridor is now used by the light rail line that runs from the city to Dulwich Hill. Part of the line from Darling Harbour to Central has been converted into a elevated urban pedestrian walkway and park, called The Goods Line.

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Scenic Railway

Katoomba railway originally constructed for coal and oil shale mining, now recognised as the world's steepest railway and a major tourist attraction.

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Southern Sydney Freight Line

Dedicated 36-kilometre single track line that runs from south of Macarthur to Enfield West which was built by the Australian Rail Track Corporation for freight trains.

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Sydney Metro

Automated rapid transit network planned to supplement the existing public railway network. Initially proposed to the New South Wales government in 2001.

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Sydney Metro Northwest

Fully automated metro railway line between Epping and Rouse Hill Station. The project was initially known as the North West Rail Link. 

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Sydney to Parramatta Railway

The colony's first major line connecting six stations at Sydney, Newtown, Ashfield, Burwood, Homebush, and Parramatta Junction near Granville. It was extended to the current Parramatta station on 4 July 1860.

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Wardell Road Junction

Railway junction alongside Dulwich Hill Railway station that opened in 1916 as part of the goods line that ran to Glebe Island.

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Zig Zag Railway

Railway which required four large cuttings and three stone viaducts to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the eastern side of the Blue Mountains. Closed as a commercial line in 1910 it re-opened as a tourist railway in 1975.

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