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Bridge Street Tram Yard
Inner West Light Rail
Sydney Metro
Phillip Street, north of Bridge Street. Old oak tree [believed to have been planted in the first Government House garden] c1900
A Southerly Buster 1878
Bus stop on Carrington Street, Wynyard 1930s
Construction of the railway at Circular Quay March 1948
First electric train on main span of Sydney Harbour Bridge 11 March 1932
Leaving the tram for the beach, Bondi c1900
Lily White Association Commemorative medalet, 1917 New South Wales General Strike
Man reading newspaper on deck of ferry approaching Circular Quay, 1906
Paying Passengers on the Electric Service 1 March 1926
RMS Strathnaven at the overseas passenger terminal Circular Quay 19 March 1932
Shunting yard for all the Sydney trams c1897
The ferry Kiandra, Sydney Harbour c1930

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Public transport

Bridge Street Tram Yard

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Shunting yard and tram depot on block that ran between Bridge, Phillip and Macquarie Street behind the Treasure Buildings. The yard opened in 1882 after the steam trams introduced at the International Exhibition in 1879 proved popular and the service was expanded. After the opening of the Fort Macquarie tram depot in 1902 fewer services left from the yard. When steam trams ceased operation in 1910, the yard was used to store electric trams and only special services left from it. The yard was demolished in 1938. Extensions to the rear of the Treasury Buildings that form part of the Intercontinental Hotel now stand on the site.

Inner West Light Rail

Light rail service that runs from Central to Dulwich Hill via Pyrmont and Glebe. The first part of the line to Wentworth Park opened in 1997, with the extension to Lilyfield in 2000 and to Dulwich Hill in 2014. Much of the line runs along the corridor of the former Metropolitan Goods railway line between Darling Harbour and Dulwich Hill, as well as a former tram loop at Central.

 

 

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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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Phillip Street, north of Bridge Street. Old oak tree [believed to have been planted in the first Government House garden] c1900 ...

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By
Ethel Foster
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 146/61b]
(Mitchell Library)

A Southerly Buster 1878

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By
Alfred Clint
Contributed By
Internet Archive
[from 'Southerly Busters' by Ironbark, Published by John Sands, Sydney 1878, frontispiece]

Bus stop on Carrington Street, Wynyard 1930s

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Contributed By
City of Sydney Archives
[029\029888]
(SRC3472)

Construction of the railway at Circular Quay March 1948

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[GPO1 43604]

First electric train on main span of Sydney Harbour Bridge 11 March 1932

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Contributed By
State Archives & Records New South Wales
[12685_a007_a00704_8735000064r]

Leaving the tram for the beach, Bondi c1900

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[DL PX 168, 1]
(Dixson Library)

Lily White Association Commemorative medalet, 1917 New South Wales General Strike

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This silver Lily-White medal was designed by Newtown jeweller William Trantum in 1918. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers commissioned and issued the medal to its members who remained out on strike.

By
William Trantum
Contributed By
Australian War Memorial
[REL33157]

Man reading newspaper on deck of ferry approaching Circular Quay, 1906

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By
Harold Cazneaux
By kind permission of the
Cazneaux family
National Library of Australia
[nla.pic-an23242011]

Paying Passengers on the Electric Service 1 March 1926

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[The Sun, 1 March 1926 (Final Extra), p14 via Trove]

RMS Strathnaven at the overseas passenger terminal Circular Quay 19 March 1932

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Contributed By
City of Sydney Archives
[038626]
(SRC12229. Originally CRS 44/86.)

Shunting yard for all the Sydney trams c1897

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Contributed By
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
[Object number 00036455_30]

The ferry Kiandra, Sydney Harbour c1930

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By
Edward William Searle
Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[PIC P838/1255 LOC Album 1124/14]

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