Goulburn Street is a street in the

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. Goulburn Street is in the southern portion of the

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and runs from

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and

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in the west, to Crown Street in the east at

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and

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. Notable buildings include

World Square World Square is a large shopping centre and urban development in the Sydney Central Business District. /sup> It fills an entire Sydney city block, bounded by George, Liverpool, Pitt and Goulburn Streets, on what was a small hill called Brick ...

, the

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Building of the

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, the Sydney Masonic Centre and the Sydney Police Centre. At the corner of Goulburn and

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Streets is the only

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operated by

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within the CBD. It was the first

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car park in Australia, opening in 1963 over six tracks of the

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line.Parking Station Built Over Busy Rail Tracks ''Railway Transportation'' May 1963 page 45

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{{Streets of Sydney Australia Haymarket, New South Wales Streets in Sydney Sydney central business district

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