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Main Southern Railway Line
The Main Southern Railway (or Great Southern Railway) is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs from Sydney to Albury, near the Victorian border. The line passes through the Southern Highlands, Southern Tablelands, South West Slopes and Riverina regions. Description of route The Main Southern Railway commences as an electrified pair of tracks in the Sydney metropolitan area. Since 1924, the line branches from the Main Suburban railway line at Lidcombe and runs via Regents Park to Cabramatta, where it rejoins the original route from Granville. The line then heads towards Campbelltown and Macarthur, the current limit of electrification and suburban passenger services. The electrification previously extended to Glenlee Colliery, but this was removed following the cessation of electric haulage of freight trains in the 1990s. The line continues as a double non-electrified track south through the Southern Highlands towns of Mittagong and Goulburn to Junee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidcombe
Lidcombe () is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lidcombe is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Cumberland Council, with a small industrial part in the north in the City of Parramatta. Demographics In the 2021 Census, there were 21,197 people in Lidcombe. 30.6% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were South Korea 14.4%, China 11.1%, Nepal 7.0%, Vietnam 5.7%, and The Philippines 2.8%. The most common reported ancestries were Chinese 27.6%, Korean 17.7%, Nepalese 7.0%, English 6.4% and Australian 5.8%.19.5% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Korean 16.8%, Mandarin 12.1%, Cantonese 9.3%, Nepali 6.8% and Arabic 3.8%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 27.4%, Catholic 17.2%, Hinduism 10.5% and Buddhism 9.7%. Lidcombe was, up until recent years a traditional working-class suburb. Over the past decad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granville Railway Station
Granville railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Suburban railway line, Main Suburban line, serving the suburb of Granville, New South Wales, Australia. It is served by Sydney Trains North Shore & Western Line, T1 Western Line and Leppington & Inner West Line, T2 Leppington & Inner West Line services. It is the junction for the Main Western railway line, Main Western line and the Main Southern railway line, Main South line. History Granville station opened on 2 July 1860 as Parramatta Junction, and is close to the original terminus of the first railway line in New South Wales which was completed in 1855. On 1 September 1880 it was relocated to its present location and renamed Granville. Granville Junction lies immediately to the west of the station and is the junction point of the Main Western railway line, Main Western and the original Main Southern railway line, Main South lines, now referred to as the Old Main South after the opening o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Gibraltar
Mount Gibraltar ( Aboriginal: ''Bowrell'') is a mountain with an elevation of that is located in the Southern Highlands region, between Bowral and Mittagong, in New South Wales, Australia. Further west is . Location and features The mountain is locally known as 'The Gib', and is in the form of a ridge, rather than an obvious conical peak. The western extremity of the ridge is commonly pointed out as the mountain itself. 'The Gib' is primarily a residential area with a large nature reserve at its peak. The first European to climb the mountain, in 1798, was explorer John Wilson. He learned from local Aborigines the name 'Bowrell', which meant 'a high place'. Surveyor Sir Thomas Mitchell also climbed Mount Gibraltar. * 'The Gib' is thought to have been formed from a collapsed volcanic core, which pushed through the local Hawkesbury Sandstone beds about 150 million years ago. * The western slopes were previously the site of a granite quarry which mined the volcanic trachyte; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Cross Railway Station
Southern Cross railway station (until 2005 known as Spencer Street station) is a major railway station in Docklands, Victoria, Docklands, Melbourne. It is on Spencer Street, between Collins Street, Melbourne, Collins and La Trobe Street, La Trobe streets, at the western edge of the Melbourne central business district. The Docklands Stadium sports arena is north-west of the station. The station is owned, operated and maintained by Civic Nexus, a subsidiary of IFM Investors and operating as Southern Cross Station Pty Ltd, under a 30-year lease to 2036 from the Victorian State Government, as part of a public-private partnership. Southern Cross Station contracts Infranexus for management services. Infranexus is also wholly owned by IFM. The station is the terminus of the List of regional railway stations in Victoria, state's regional railway network, operated by V/Line, ''The Overland'' rail service to Adelaide Parklands Terminal, Adelaide, and New South Wales XPT, NSW TrainLink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albury Railway Station
Albury railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Railway Place, Albury, New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the border with Victoria, in Australia. It was designed under the direction of John Whitton and built from 1880 to 1881. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register in 1999. History The railway precinct at Albury was the terminus for the Main Southern Line from 1881 until 1962. It remains as an operational railway yard and passenger station and is the last station before the NSW/ Victoria border. By the late 19th century, colonial rivalry between Victoria and NSW, particularly with regard to the competition for wool trade from the Riverina, was the catalyst for the rapid expansion of rail networks in both states in the direction of the Victoria/NSW border. In Victoria, a proposal for a line to Belvoir (Wodonga) was approved in 1869 and completed by 1873. In April 1873, John Sutherland, the Minister for Public Works, set out a polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a States and territories of Australia, state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 7 million; and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km2). Victoria's economy is the List of Australian states and territories by gross state product, second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified, with service sectors predominating. Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate climate, temperate coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junee Railway Station
Junee railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Southern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the town of Junee in the Junee Shire. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Services Junee is served by two daily NSW TrainLink XPT services in each direction operating between Sydney and Melbourne, and a twice weekly NSW TrainLink Xplorer between Griffith and Sydney split from Canberra services at Goulburn. History Junee station opened on 6 July 1878 when the Main South line was extended from Bethungra. It served as the terminus until the line was extended to Bomen on 3 September 1878. Originally known as Junee, it was renamed Junee Junction on 28 February 1881 when the Hay line opened as far as Narrandera, before resuming its original name, Junee in April 1940. A timber station building was constructed, and in 1881 the branch line to Narrandera from Junee Junction was opened. Over the next few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goulburn Railway Station
Goulburn railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Southern line, serving the Southern Tablelands city of Goulburn. Opened on 19 May 1869, it was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Goulburn Station is operated by NSW TrainLink, and has several train and coach services to destinations including Canberra, Albury, Melbourne, Griffith, Moss Vale, Campbelltown and Sydney. History The foundation stone for the main station building was laid by the Mayor of Goulburn, William Davies, on 12 May 1868. At the time, the explorer William Hovell lived immediately opposite the main station building on Sloane Street. The land on which the station buildings are sited was originally designated for public parkland. The station buildings were opened in 1869 with arrival of the railway from Sydney, which was opened by the Governor Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city), along with the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mittagong Railway Station
Mittagong railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main Southern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the town of Mittagong in the Southern Highlands. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History The station opened on 1 March 1867. The station is the junction for the old alignment of the Main South Railway line from Picton, and for the now lifted line to the ghost town of Joadja. The Platform 1 station building was erected in 1873 and the wooden structure on Platform 2 in 1919 when the line was duplicated. Platforms and services Mittagong has two side platforms. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services travelling between Campbelltown and Moss Vale with limited morning services to Sydney Central and limited evening services to Goulburn. It is also serviced by NSW TrainLink Xplorer long-distance services from Sydney to Canberra and Griffith. This is a request stop for this servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Highlands (New South Wales)
The Southern Highlands, also locally referred to as the Highlands, is a geographical region and district in New South Wales, Australia and is 110 km south-west of Sydney. The region comprises the Local Government Area, local government area of the Wingecarribee Shire and also towns of the Mulwaree Shire. The region is also considered a New South Wales wine, wine region. The region specifically is the area centred on the commercial towns of Mittagong, New South Wales, Mittagong, Bowral, New South Wales, Bowral, Moss Vale, New South Wales, Moss Vale, Bundanoon, New South Wales, Bundanoon and Robertson, New South Wales, Robertson as well as the historic town of Berrima, New South Wales, Berrima. Smaller villages like Burradoo, New South Wales, Burradoo, Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Sutton Forest, Colo Vale, New South Wales, Colo Vale, Avoca, New South Wales, Avoca, Yerrinbool, New South Wales, Yerrinbool, Exeter, New South Wales, Exeter, Welby, New South Wales, Welby and man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenlee Colliery
Glenlee railway station was a railway station on the Main Southern line, serving Glenlee estate within the suburb of Menangle Park in Sydney, New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ..., Australia. It was open between 1884 and 1947 and is now demolished with little trace remaining. NSWrail.net. Accessed 9 August 2009. North of the station site lies a triangle junction to the Glenlee colliery, the northern arm of which was electrified and served as the southern extent of electrification on the Main South line until it was cut back to Macarthur in the early 2000s. |
Passenger Services
A train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and Passenger train, transport people or Rail freight transport, freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often known simply as "engines"), though some are self-propelled, such as multiple units or Railcar, railcars. Passengers and cargo are carried in railroad cars, also known as wagons or carriages. Trains are designed to a certain Track gauge, gauge, or distance between rails. Most trains operate on steel tracks with steel wheels, the low friction of which makes them more efficient than other forms of transport. Many Rail transport by country, countries use rail transport. Trains have their roots in wagonways, which used railway tracks and were Horsecar, powered by horses or Cable railway, pulled by cables. Following the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom in 1802, trains rapidly spread around the world, allo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
