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The Sydney tramway network served the inner suburbs of Sydney, Australia, from 1879 until 1961. In its heyday, it was the largest in Australia, the second largest in the Commonwealth of Nations (after London ), and one of the largest in the world.
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.
The Melbourne tram network is the longest tram system by route length. The New Orleans streetcar system was one of the first in the world and it is the oldest system still in operation. The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars ), or light rail systems as part of their ...
Light rail in the city centre. Sydney once had the Southern Hemisphere's largest tram network. Patronage peaked in 1945 at 405 million passenger journeys. The system was in place from 1861 until its winding down in the 1950s and eventual closure in 1961. It had a maximum street mileage of 291 km (181 miles) in 1923.
Trams in Sydney: Australia 291 [21] 1961 [21] San Diego Electric Railway: USA 266 1949 Trams in Melbourne: Australia 256 Current largest tram system by route length. Glasgow Corporation Tramways: UK 227.51 1962 Trams in Brisbane: Australia 199 1969 Cologne Stadtbahn: Germany 194.8 Trams in Milan: Italy 181.8 [22] Data as of 2017. The network ...
Primary City System Other cities served Type Average daily boardings Lines Stations/ stops Length Average daily boardings/km Sydney: Sydney Trains: Commuter rail: 1,033,150 [2] 9 [3] 161: 355.5 km [4] 2,799/km Sydney Metro: Rapid transit 74,000 (2023) [5] 1 21 52 km 2,055/km Sydney Light Rail: Light rail 86,444 (2023) [6] 3 42 24.7 km 3,500/km ...
Cross country trams from City Road Junction terminated. There was a separate junction on the western side of Anzac Parade, to allow access to Dowling St Depot via Dacey Avenue. [30] (Name is no longer used) Junction rebuilt at location where L2 and L3 Light Rail lines diverge. Macpherson Street Junction [5] Waverley Junction
The Inner West Light Rail has reutilised the platforms at Central station formerly used by Sydney's tram network. Sydney once had quite an extensive tram system, having been in place since 1879, with a short-lived earlier line opened between 1861 and 1866. The system was hugely popular by the 20th century, with an average of more than one tram ...