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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 ...
The Sydney light rail system has four lines. [1] [2] The system is owned by the Government of New South Wales. The first three lines are operated under contract by Transdev Sydney, [3] while the L4 Westmead & Carlingford Line is operated by Great River City Light Rail, a joint venture between Transdev and CAF. [4] [5]
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
The CBD and South East Light Rail is a pair of light rail lines running between Sydney's central business district (CBD) and the south-eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Services running between Circular Quay and Randwick are branded as the L2 Randwick Line , with services running between Circular Quay and Kingsford branded ...
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.
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
A prototype (806) was built at Randwick Tramway Workshops in 1907, before the Meadowbank Manufacturing Company built a further 625 between 1908 and 1914. They were nicknamed Dreadnoughts, after a powerful British warship of the day, the Sydney press referred to them as Toastracks as all the seats were transverse or crossbench.