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Cabramatta Railway Station
Cabramatta railway station is located on the Main South line, serving the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta. It is served by Sydney Trains T2 Inner West & Leppington, T3 Bankstown and T5 Cumberland line services. History Cabramatta station opened in 1870 on the Granville to Liverpool section of the Main South line. On 8 October 1924, Cabramatta line became a junction station when another branch of the Main South line opened from Sefton, joining the existing line just north of the station. In April 1996, the junction was upgraded from a low speed one with an speed limit. To make the higher speeds possible, the track centres have been widened from at the platforms to about at the diamond crossing at the heart of the junction. Longer points were installed. As part of the Southern Sydney Freight Line project, a third line was built behind the eastern side of the station. Due to limited space, an overhead concourse was constructed to replace a building on platform 2. The new c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Sydney Freight Line
The Southern Sydney Freight Line (SSFL) is a freight only railway line in the south-western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The line was built to segregate freight trains from the Sydney Trains network. It forms part of a dedicated freight only corridor between Port Botany and Macarthur. The line is managed by the Australian Rail Track Corporation. Route The SSFL runs from Chullora to Macarthur. It is an unelectrified, bi-directional single track with 1,800 metre long passing loops at Leightonfield and Glenfield.Tackling Congestion on the Sydney Rail Freight Network Minister for Infrastructure and Transport 5 February 2009 Apart from its end points, the SSFL has no interface with the |
Railway Digest
''Railway Digest'' is a monthly magazine, published in Sydney, covering contemporary railways of Australia. Overview The magazine's publisher is the Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS), NSW Division. The first issue was published in March 1963 under the name ''New South Wales Digest'' and regular publication commenced with the May 1963 edition. It was renamed in January 1983. In January 1985 it changed paper size from SRA5 to A4. Originally an enthusiast magazine mainly focusing on reporting day-to-day workings of the New South Wales Government Railways and it successors, it was produced by volunteers using a hand-operated duplicator at the home of one of its members. In May 1993, a paid editor was appointed and the magazine's focus gradually shifted to reporting news from across Australia. It has evolved into a professional full-colour production directed at the wider community and commercially distributed to newsagents throughout Australia."Adapt or disappear - th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NightRide (bus Service)
NightRide is a network of bus routes in operation between midnight and 4.30am in Sydney, Australia. The sixteen routes are run by bus operators as listed below and allow for a nightly shutdown of the Sydney Trains commuter rail network. The NightRide network was established in mid-1989 as low-patronage late-night train services were progressively withdrawn.Late night travellers vote with their feet to dump NightRide '''' 10 March 2014 Services follow major roads, and some stops are some distance from the railway stations they replace. In addition, some routes serve stations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfield Railway Station, Sydney
Fairfield railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Old Main South line, serving the Sydney suburb of Fairfield. It is served by Sydney Trains T2 Inner West & Leppington and T5 Cumberland line services. It was designed and built by NSW Government Railways from 1856 to 1891. It is also known as Fairfield Railway Station group. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History After completion of the initial rail line from Sydney to Parramatta, work soon proceeded on the Main South line from Granville Junction to Goulburn. The first section from Granville to Liverpool was constructed quickly over easy terrain and was opened on 26 September 1856. Fairfield was opened with this section and was the only intermediate station at that time. Campbelltown was reached in 1858, that section opening on 17 May 1858. The line was duplicated in 1891. This line was constructed as a rural railway and had no suburban pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenfield Park, New South Wales
Greenfield Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Greenfield Park is located 36 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield. The suburb has one of the most highest proportion of Assyrian people in the Sydney area and Australia per se. History Aboriginal people from the Cabrogal tribe, a sub-group of the Gandangara tribe, have lived in the Fairfield area for over 30,000 years. White settlement began in the Fairfield area in the early 19th century. Greenfield Park was named after a major road that cuts through the Council Ward of St Johns. It officially became a suburb on 3 August 1979. Churches Greenfield Park is home to St Hurmizd Cathedral, Australia's largest Assyrian church. Commercial area Greenfield Park is home to a small local shopping village, known as the "Greenfield Park Shopping Village". The Shopping Village houses a number of SME (Small to Medium Enterprises), as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Pritchard
Mount Pritchard is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 34 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Fairfield and the City of Liverpool, and is part of the South-western Sydney region. History Mount Pritchard was originally home to the Cabrogal people who occupied much of the greater Fairfield area. In the early 19th century, the land was granted to a number of ex-convicts for farming. Later it was made part of the Male Orphan School Estate. In 1913, land west of Cabramatta Creek and Orange Grove Road previously owned by the Bull family was subdivided into smaller residential lots by a real estate property salesman named Hugh Pritchard, who named it the Cabramatta Park Estate. From 1919, to honour Mr Pritchard's releasing from debt of a number of landowners whom he'd financed, the estate was renamed Mount Pritchard. The local electoral polling place followed suit in 1924. From the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Park, New South Wales
Cecil Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 40 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Fairfield. It is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. History Cecil Park was originally home to the Cabrogal people who occupied much of the greater Fairfield area. When European exploration of the area began in the early 19th century, a nearby range was named Cecil Hills and this in turn inspired the name Cecil Park. The first white settler in Cecil Park was Simeon Lord. Cecil Park Post Office opened on 16 July 1897 and closed in 1966. Demographics At the 2016 census, there were 771 residents in Cecil Park. 65.1% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were Italy 7.5%, Malta 2.8%, Iran 2.0%, Fiji 1.9% and Lebanon 1.6%. In Cecil Park 54.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian 12.4%, Croatian 3.3%, Serbian 2. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transit Systems NSW
Transit Systems NSW, previously known as Transit Systems Sydney, is a bus operator in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is a subsidiary of Transit Systems. History In November 2012, Transit Systems was awarded a contract by Transport for NSW to operate Sydney Metropolitan Bus Service Contracts, region 3 bus services in Western Sydney, taking over services operated by Busabout Sydney, Busabout, Hopkinsons, Metro-link Bus Lines, Metro-link and ComfortDelGro Australia#Westbus, Westbus. Transit Systems also took over route T80 on the Liverpool-Parramatta T-way from State Transit Authority#Western Sydney Buses, Western Sydney Buses. Operations commenced on 13 October 2013. On 1 July 2018, Transit Systems took over the operation of Sydney Metropolitan Bus Service Contracts, region 6 from State Transit Authority, State Transit on an eight-year contract operating services in the Canterbury-Bankstown, Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, North Shore (Sydney), Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansvale
Lansvale is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 28 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, the other side of Chipping Norton and its lake, in the Local government in Australia, local government areas of the City of Fairfield and is part of the South-western Sydney region. History Lansvale took its name from a combination of the names of the neighbouring suburbs of Lansdowne, New South Wales, Lansdowne and Canley Vale, New South Wales, Canley Vale. This area was a most popular recreational site of the early twentieth century. Latty's Pleasure Grounds, the Butterfly Hall, Hollywood Park and the Lansdowne Reserve were popular ventures which fringed the river and lakes system. The amusement parks were struggling by the time of the Great Depression and eventually the land that they occupied was acquired by the council for public reserves. It is a little-known fact that the first games of Rugby League football in Australia, in early 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transdev NSW
Transdev NSW is a bus operator in the northern, southern and western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, operating on behalf of Transport for NSW. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Australasia. It is a different subsidiary to Transdev John Holland, which is 75% owned by Transdev and operates in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. With origins tracing back to February 1935, Transdev NSW was renamed from Veolia Transport NSW in July 2013 after the global rebranding of its parent company Veolia Transdev to simply Transdev. During this time, Transdev Shorelink, another Transdev bus operation in Sydney, was absorbed into Transdev NSW. Between November and December 2022, after a competitive tendering process, Transdev NSW was unsuccessful in retaining all of its existing bus operations. Its operations will be taken by bus companies and Transdev NSW will cease to be a public bus operator in August 2023. However, it will still continue to operate charter bus operations. History The origins of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leppington Railway Station
Leppington railway station is the terminus of the South West Rail Link which serves the south-western Sydney suburb of Leppington. It opened on 8 February 2015. A ten road stabling facility is located to the west of the station at Rossmore. There are 850 car park spaces available. Platforms and services Leppington has two island platforms with four faces. Initial services consisted of a half-hourly shuttle to Liverpool. From 13 December 2015, trains operate directly to the city via Granville. From 26 November 2017, Cumberland Line services stop at the station, providing a link to Parramatta, Blacktown, Schofields and Richmond. Transport links Interline Bus Services operate three routes via Leppington station: *855: Liverpool station to Bringelly *856: Liverpool station to Austral *858: to Oran Park Busabout operate one route via Leppington station: *841: to Narellan Narellan is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. Narellan is located 60 kilometres south-west of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schofields Railway Station
Schofields railway station is located on the Richmond line, serving the Sydney suburb of Schofields. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 Western and T5 Cumberland line services. History Schofields station opened in 1870. It was named after John Schofield, a local pioneer who was a former convict who later settled in the area after building a saw mill beside the railway line. The former station was originally opened as a siding stop with a platform made from railway sleepers in the early 1870s on the western side of the track, which was later rebuilt in brick in 1888 along with a goods loop after the Richmond line was upgraded by John Whitton the then Engineer-in-Chief. The History of the Station and surrounding local area have been highlighted through signs placed near the entrances to both former and present station sites. Former station The old Schofields station consisted of a single side platform with street level access on the eastern side of the track. A pedestrian lev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
