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Albion Park Rail, New South Wales
Albion Park Rail is a suburb of City of Shellharbour, Shellharbour, Australia situated in the Macquarie Valley (Shellharbour). The South Coast railway line, New South Wales, South Coast railway line was opened to the Albion Park railway station, railway station and Bombo railway station, Bombo in 1887. At the time the nearest town was Albion Park, New South Wales, Albion Park, several kilometres away. Over time, houses were built around the railway station, and Albion Park Rail developed into a town in its own right, and with its own name. Albion Park Rail has a community area set up with a community centre, playing fields and a recently built skatepark. It only has one school but it accommodates many students from Pre-School to Year 6. Albion Park Rail is located along the shores of Lake Illawarra, near Koona Bay. It is a fifteen-minute drive on the Southern Freeway, freeway to Wollongong. Albion Park Rail is the site of the Illawarra Regional Airport which is the location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Shellharbour
The City of Shellharbour is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The city is located about south of Sydney and covers the southern suburbs of the Wollongong urban area centred on Shellharbour, New South Wales, Shellharbour. At the , it had an estimated population of 76,271. The area is bordered by the City of Wollongong to the north, with the boundary being the Lake Illawarra entrance (and the suburb of Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Lake Illawarra) and Macquarie Rivulet (Albion Park Rail, New South Wales, Albion Park Rail). The Municipality of Kiama is to the south of the City of Shellharbour. The mayor of the Shellharbour City Council is Councillor, Cr. Chris Homer. History Indigenous Australians, Indigenous occupation of the area, particularly of Bass Point, can be traced back to 17,000 BCE. The area was discovered by European Australians, Europeans George Bass, Bass and Matthew Flinders, Flinders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunmore, New South Wales
Dunmore is a largely rural suburb of Shellharbour City in New South Wales, Australia. Dunmore is bisected north to south by the South Coast railway line and the Princes Highway. History Much of the present-day City of Shellharbour was originally part of the 13,000-acre Peterborough Estate, granted to discharged convict and colonial politician D'Arcy Wentworth in 1821. In 1865, a 2,560-acre portion of the estate was advertised for sale. The land stretched along the Minnamurra River in the south of the estate, towards Jamberoo. Local shopkeeper George Lawrence Fuller bought the property and named it Dunmore after his birthplace in County Galway, Ireland. ( Fuller's son George was to become Premier of New South Wales in 1921.) Fuller ''père'' was instrumental in the development of basalt quarrying in the district. Dunmore came to prominence in 1887 as the location of the railway station serving the seaside village of Shellharbour, five kilometres to the north-east. Indeed, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illawarra Light Railway Museum
The Illawarra Light Railway Museum operates a mainline narrow gauge light railway, a miniature gauge railway, and a museum located in Albion Park Rail, New South Wales, Australia. History The Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society was founded in February of 1972. the Museum site was leased from Shellharbour City Council and the Leased sinned in 1974, with railway operations commencing in 1974 dedicated to preserving Light Railway history and Illawarra industrial history. It was officially opened on 10 November 1984. In 2007 the society obtained federal funding for the construction of the Ken McCarthy Museum Building, which was officially opened in December 2007. Operations The Museum is opened on the Second Sunday and Fourth Saturday of each month from 10am to 2pm *Work Days being Tuesdays, Thursdays. *Running Days every second Sunday and fourth Saturday of each month. The museum site consist of the following features: * Yallah station building, arrived May 1976 *Otford Sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Aircraft Restoration Society
The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society, often referred to by its acronym, HARS, is an Australian based aircraft restoration group. The group has two museums, at Shellharbour Airport in New South Wales, Australia, and Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. HARS was formed in 1979 by a group of aviation enthusiasts interested in the preservation of Australian Aviation History. Its mission is "To recover and where possible restore to flying condition, aircraft or types of aircraft that have played a significant part in Australian Aviation History both in the Civil and Military arenas". The group possesses a collection which includes several large and significant aircraft such as a Boeing 707 and a Boeing 747-400. Many of its aircraft are kept at an airworthy standard, including a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation which is the last remaining flying example in the world. Other examples are kept at a taxiable standard where restoration of airframes to an airworthy standard is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illawarra Regional Airport
Shellharbour Airport, formerly Illawarra Regional Airport, also referred as Albion Park Aerodrome or Wollongong Airport, is an airport located in Albion Park Rail, New South Wales, Australia. The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society is located at the airport. Link Airways operates daily services from the airport to Melbourne and Brisbane.Fly Corporate makes inaugural flight from Illawarra Regional Airport '' Illawarra Mercury'' 12 November 2018 Various businesses operate out of Shellharbour Airport including Touchdown Helicopters and BIGWAVE Skydive. Overview The ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Freeway
Princes Motorway is a predominantly dual carriage untolled motorway that links Sydney to Wollongong and further south through the Illawarra region to . Part of the Australian Highway 1 network, the motorway is designated route M1. The motorway is sometimes known by its previous signposting F6 (Freeway Route 6) and its previous name Southern Freeway, which applied to the sections between Waterfall and Bulli Tops as well as Gwynneville and Yallah.F6 Southern Freeway ''Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website''. Retrieved 24 August 2008. The section between Bulli Tops and Gwynneville was known as Mount Ousley Road, and was first built as a defence route and later upgraded to dual carriageway standards. It is the backbone of road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Illawarra
Lake Illawarra (Australian Aboriginal languages, Aboriginal Tharawal language: various adaptions of ''Elouera'', ''Eloura'', or ''Allowrie''; ''Illa'', ''Wurra'', or ''Warra'' meaning pleasant place near the sea, or, high place near the sea, or, white clay mountain) is an open and Breakwater (structure), trained intermediate wind wave, wave dominated estuary#Lagoon-type or bar-built, barrier estuary or large coastal lagoon , is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, situated about south of Sydney, Australia. Until 2014, the lake environment was administered by the Lake Illawarra Authority (LIA), a Government of New South Wales, New South Wales statutory authority established pursuant to the with the aim of transforming the degraded waters and foreshores of Lake Illawarra into an attractive recreational and tourist resource. In 2014, the LIA was replaced by the Lake Illawarra Estuary Management Committee (LIEMC), including representatives from Wollongong and Shellha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombo Railway Station
Bombo railway station is a heritage-listed single-platform intercity train station located at Bombo, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The station is served by the NSW TrainLink South Coast line, with trains traveling south to Kiama and north to Wollongong and Sydney. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History Bombo station opened as the temporary South Coast Line terminus in late 1887 under the name North Kiama. The town of Kiama, situated among fingers of hard basaltic rock running down from Saddleback Mountain to the sea, presented something of a barrier to the railway's progress further south. It had an open platform with a standard timber platform building completed in 1888, and due to its terminus status, received a turntable, watering facilities and an engine shed. This function was to continue until 1897, even when the line had been completed to Bomaderry in 1893. The station was renamed to Kiama in May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albion Park Railway Station
Albion Park railway station is a Heritage register, heritage-listed railway station located on the South Coast railway line, New South Wales, South Coast railway line on the Princes Highway in , New South Wales, Australia. The station was designed by New South Wales Government Railways and built during 1887 by William Monie & Company, with the single line railway line built by David Proudfoot (engineer), David Proudfoot and Thomas Logan. The complex is also known as the Albion Park Railway Station Group. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The station is located close to Shellharbour Airport. History The township of Shellharbour, New South Wales, Shellharbour was laid out in 1851 around the port of Shellharbour. Shellharbour (Municipal) Council was constituted on 4 June 1859 and the chambers, built in 1865 were located in Shellharbour. The council relocated to Albion Park, New South Wales, Albion Park in 1897, coinciding with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Coast Railway Line, New South Wales
The South Coast Railway (also known as the Illawarra railway or the South Coast line) is a passenger and freight railway line from Sydney to Wollongong and Bomaderry in New South Wales, Australia. Beginning at the Illawarra Junction, the line services the Illawarra and South Coast regions of New South Wales. Opening in segments between 1884 and 1893, the South Coast railway line was built primarily to service the Coal Cliff Colliery, in which colonial government ministers and legislators were shareholders and as an economic link between the Illawarra and Sydney. It later connected the later industrial works at Port Kembla to the greater metropolitan freight railway network in Sydney. The line also serves as a public transport link for residents in St George, Sutherland and the Illawarra. The 56-station, line is owned by the NSW government's Transport Asset Holding Entity, with passenger services on the line provided by Sydney Trains' Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macquarie Valley (Shellharbour)
The Macquarie Valley, also known as Albion Park, Rural West or Western Valley, is an area located in the Shellharbour local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... The valley includes the towns of Albion Park Rail, Albion Park and Tullimbar, as well as the Macquarie Pass National Park. Its first made reference in Council documents, and has since become somewhat of a district within the region. Description The valley differs from other areas in Illawarra, as the escarpment heads inland forms several hills along with it, thus creating the area known as the Macquarie Valley. The area also experiences a greater range of temperature forecasts compared to other areas in Illawarra. The Macquarie Valley ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
