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The colonies enacted time zone legislation, which took effect in February 1895. The clocks were set ahead of GMT by 8 hours in Western Australia; by 9 hours in South Australia (and the Northern Territory, which it governed); and by 10 hours in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania.
The date and time in Australia are most commonly recorded using the day–month–year format (8 February 2025) and the 12-hour clock (1:58 am), although 24-hour time is used in some cases. For example, some public transport operators such as V/Line [1] and Transport NSW [2] use 24-hour time, although others use 12-hour time instead.
810,143 (NSW TrainLink Regional) 123,474 (daily) [1] Services. Preceding station Sydney Trains ... The clock was designed by Richard Lamb and Alfred Fairfax, the co ...
New South Wales (NSW) First Sunday in October (since 2008–09) First Sunday in April (2005–06 and since 2007–08) Observed DST in 1917, 1942–1944, and since 1971. [3] Northern Territory (NT) — — Observed DST in 1917 and 1942–1944. Queensland (QLD) — — Observed DST in 1917, 1942–1944, 1971–1972, and 1989–1992. South ...
In Australia, the number 1194 was the speaking clock in all areas. The service started in 1953 by the Post Master General's Department, originally to access the talking clock on a rotary dial phone, callers would dial "B074", during the transition from a rotary dial to a DTMF based phone system, the talking clock number changed from "B074" to 1194.
In 1938, a clock for the tower and a clock system throughout the building to be driven electronically by a pendulum master clock were installed by Prouds Limited. The whole system was Australian made. [1] In the late 1980s, the building was earmarked by the NSW Government as one of the possible sites for conversion into a casino.
The Newcastle (NSW) earthquake of 1989 prompted immediate review of the Australian structural seismic code, from which emerged concern for the GPO clock tower. Precision vertical drilling followed by partial prestressing of the structure was completed in 1991. The design engineer for this work was Colin Crisp of consultants McBean & Crisp.
Cronulla Railway Station is rare within the NSW rail network, and considered to be one of the finest examples of Inter-war Functionalist style railway station architecture in NSW. The platform buildings are noted for their use of dichromatic brickwork, parapeted roofs, curved corners, strong horizontal planes, stepped steel awnings, complex ...