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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.
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.
This is a list of former tramway junctions in Sydney, which were part of the network of trams in Sydney that existed up to 1961. It includes only junctions of tram lines that were designated with a name that included the word "Junction".
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.
Urban networks are further classified as "light rail" or "heavy rail". [1] Light rail in Australia includes established tram networks in Melbourne and Adelaide continuously operating in various forms since the 19th century, as well as networks in other cities newly constructed after the cessation of tram operation.
The CBD and South East Light Rail required significant changes to the bus networks of the Sydney central business district and the Eastern Suburbs. Prior to construction of the light rail, Hillsbus and State Transit bus routes using George Street were permanently removed from the street. The network was further redesigned when the light rail ...
A Sydney Light Rail Urbos 3 tram A modern low-floor E class tram, as used on the Melbourne network. The earliest trams in Australia operated in the latter decades of the 19th century, hauled by horses or "steam tram motors" (also known as "steam dummies"). At the turn of the 20th century, propulsion almost universally turned to electrification ...
The planned Sydney Metro network in 2025, showing the Sydney Metro Northwest (opened in 2019) and the Sydney Metro City & Southwest (opening in 2024 and 2025) The Sydney Metro is a rapid transit rail system in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.