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Convention light rail stop in Darling Harbour. The Darling Harbour Authority was established in 1984, with the goal of redeveloping the Darling Harbour precinct. [6] The yard was demolished and redeveloped between 1985 and 1988, with a single line of track retained. [7] In January 1996, the Lilyfield to Central section of the Metropolitan Goods ...
To this end, a railway line was constructed between the Sydney railway station (the predecessor to Central railway station) and Darling Harbour, which opened on 26 September 1855. [ 15 ] By 1908, goods traffic on the line to Darling Harbour and the neighbouring suburban lines had become excessive, with 592 wagons arriving each day and 512 being ...
The Goods Line uses the route of a former freight railway line that connected Sydney Yard and the Sydney–Parramatta railway line to the shipping port of Darling Harbour. The railway line opened in 1855 and was extended to Dulwich Hill in 1922, providing a way for freight trains to access Darling Harbour without interfering with passenger trains.
From the time when the Sydney Railway Company was formed in 1848, it had been the intention of the company to build a freight terminal at Darling Harbour. To this end, a railway line was constructed between the Sydney Railway Station (the predecessor to Central railway station) and Darling Harbour, which opened on 26 September 1855. [8]
Rozelle Yard was a goods railway yard in Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of two major yards on the Rozelle–Darling Harbour Goods Line , the other being in Darling Harbour . [ 2 ] After heavy rail traffic ceased, part of the site was redeveloped into the Lilyfield Maintenance Depot of Sydney Light Rail .
Pyrmont / Darling Harbour (see also Darling Island) Darling Harbour Yard: Rail goods yard and wharves. [159] 1856— 1993 Darling Harbour redevelopment Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Wool store. [160] [161] —1980s The original building was repurposed, in 1995, with four new floors added, as 'the Goldsbrough' apartment building. Farmers and Graziers ...
The Ultimo (Railway Square) overbridge is of state significance as the oldest surviving structure on the NSW railway system and possibly the only surviving example of the work of the Sydney Railway Company. Opened in 1855, it has a direct and tangible link to the first phase of railway construction in NSW and to the Darling Harbour Goods Yard.
It was originally part of the commercial port of Sydney, including the Darling Harbour Railway Goods Yard. During the Great Depression, the eastern part of Darling Harbour (Barangaroo) became known as The Hungry Mile, a reference to the waterside workers searching for jobs along the wharves. [2]