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The Sydney light rail network (or Sydney Light Rail for the inner-city lines) [4] is a light rail/tram system serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The network consists of four passenger routes, the L1 Dulwich Hill , L2 Randwick, L3 Kingsford and L4 Westmead & Carlingford lines.
In 1950, L/P class tram 154 was the first of Sydney's trams (and first in Australia) to be preserved the fledgling Australian Electric Traction Association, later known as the Sydney Tramway Museum, beginning the preservation of nearly every class of tram. The collection of preserved trams has grown to include the last known examples of some ...
Sydney operated only two cable tram lines (in North Sydney and along New South Head Road) and eschewed the high capital outlay required for cable traction, preferring instead to retain their steam trams, until most of the system was converted to electric operation between 1898 and 1910.
The Tramway Avenue stop is located after two pairs of adjacent 90 degree turns on the line, on its namesake street. Directly after this station towards Carlingford, the street-running section ends at Bidgee Bidgee Bridge (formerly James Ruse Drive Bridge), [ 106 ] named after an Indigenous tribal leader. [ 119 ]
In 1935, the shuttle tram to La Perouse ceased, but from 1934, some trams ran past Botany to Matraville (terminus at Military Road, Matraville). [53] (Name is no longer used, and the arrangement of the roads in the area is now significantly different around the former site of the tramway.) Steyne Junction [2] North Steyne to Raglan Street, Manly
Built to service the new electric tram fleet, the former Tram Depot at Newtown is of state historical significance for its association with the replacement of steam trams with electric traction in Sydney in 1899. Opened in 1900 the tram depot was the second built of the tram depots in NSW and together with the adjacent Newtown Railway Station ...
Enclosed cross bench Maximum traction bogie car (later Prison car N 948) N-class: 684-728: Enclosed cross bench Maximum traction bogie car (No. 704 converted to LP class) N-class: 729-736: ex-cable trailers: T-class: 737,738: Maximum traction bogie open cross bench car: M-class: 739,740: Single truck, open cross bench cars H-class: 741- 745
Extended over new Sydney Harbour Bridge to underground terminal at Wynyard station, Sydney, 20 March 1932. ♦ Parramatta – Castle Hill Steam 18 August 1902 31 December 1926 ♦♦ Parramatta (Wharf) Steam 1 October 1883 31 March 1943 Last steam tramway in Sydney area. ♦ Rockdale – Brighton-le-Sands Steam 9 November 1885 1900 Electric