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East Hills Railway Station
East Hills railway station is located on the East Hills line, serving the Sydney suburb of East Hills. It is served by Sydney Trains' T8 Airport & South Line services. History East Hills station opened on 21 December 1931 when the line was extended from Kingsgrove. It served as the terminus of the line until it was extended to Glenfield on 21 December 1987. A new station was built south-east of the original station as part of the extension opening in August 1987 with the original station closed and demolished. Following the extension, East Hills became the main intermediate terminus and an interchange point between all stops and limited stops trains. In addition to the two through tracks (platforms 2 and 3), a side terminating track (platform 1) was provided. A new centre turnback at Revesby opened in 2009 as part of the Rail Clearways Program, which ended East Hills' role as the primary intermediate terminus. The station was upgraded and received lifts in April 2022. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Hills, New South Wales
East Hills, a suburb of Local government in Australia, local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 26 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the South-western Sydney region, near larger areas like Revesby and Bankstown. East Hills is a small suburb on the northern bank of the Georges River. The adjacent suburbs are Panania, New South Wales, Panania and Picnic Point, New South Wales, Picnic Point. Nearby suburbs on the opposite bank of the Georges River include Pleasure Point, New South Wales, Pleasure Point, Voyager Point, New South Wales, Voyager Point, Sandy Point, New South Wales, Sandy Point and Hammondville, New South Wales, Hammondville. History East Hills was the name used to describe the whole area south of Bankstown, New South Wales, Bankstown to the Georges River and east to The River Road. George Johnstone (1790–1820) was granted here in 1804 and called it New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbelltown Railway Station
Campbelltown railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Southern line, serving the Sydney suburb of Campbelltown. It is served by Sydney Trains' T8 Airport & South line services and NSW TrainLink services to Moss Vale, Goulburn, Canberra, Griffith and Melbourne. History Campbelltown Railway Station was briefly the southernmost extent of Great Southern Railway of New South Wales being situated at the end of the Liverpool to Campbelltown railway extension completed in 1858. The station opened on 4 May 1858 with services commencing 17 May 1858. Preparations for the opening of the railway station commenced after a 3pm meeting at the Court House on 12 March 1858. In the meantime, the railway was progressing towards completion with the Chief Commissioner, Chief Engineer, and railway officials having inspected the progress of station construction on 29 April 1858. The opening included an afternoon banquet, "with every delicacy upon the table which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Canterbury-Bankstown
Canterbury-Bankstown Council, trading as the City of Canterbury Bankstown and stylised as CBCity, is a Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The council was formed on 12 May 2016 from a Merger (politics), merger of the City of Canterbury (New South Wales), City of Canterbury and the City of Bankstown, after a review of local government areas by the Government of New South Wales, NSW Government. The City of Canterbury Bankstown comprises an area of and as per the , had a population of making it the second most populous Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area in New South Wales. The current mayor is Bilal El-Hayek, a member of the New South Wales Labor Party, Labor Party, who was elected on 11 May 2023. History Early history The traditional Aboriginal inhabitants of the land now known as the Canterbury-Bankstown were the Dharug language, Dharug (Dara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Hills Trackplan
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *''aus-to-'' or *''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn", cognate with Old High German ''*ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. ''Ēostre'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Hall Railway Station, Sydney
Town Hall railway station is a New South Wales State Heritage Register, heritage-listed underground suburban rail railway station, station located in the centre of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. The station opened on 28 February 1932. It is named after the Sydney Town Hall, located directly above the station. History The station is built on the site of Sydney's earliest colonial cemetery, the Old Sydney Burial Ground. In 2008, part of this cemetery was being excavated from under the Town Hall. The station opened on 28 February 1932 and was built with six platforms, which were split over two levels with three platforms on each level. When the station opened, only four of the platforms were in use: platforms 1, 2 and 3 on the upper level and platform 6, served by escalators, on the lower level. The other two platforms were built in preparation for a proposed western suburbs line from the city to Gladesville, New South Wales, Gladesville, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NightRide (bus Service)
NightRide is a network of bus routes in operation between midnight and 4.30am in Sydney, Australia. The sixteen routes allow for a nightly shutdown of the Sydney Trains suburban rail network and Sydney Metro. The NightRide network was established in mid-1989 as low-patronage late-night train services were progressively withdrawn.Late night travellers vote with their feet to dump NightRide '''' 10 March 2014 Services follow major roads, and some stops are some distance from the railway stations they replace. In addition, some routes serve stations on m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westfield Miranda
Westfield Miranda (also known as Miranda Fair) is a large shopping centre in the suburb of Miranda in Sutherland Shire of Sydney. History Miranda Fair was officially opened on 16 March 1964 by the Premier of New South Wales, Bob Heffron, in front of 1,600 guests. A highlight of the opening ceremony was the arrival of a helicopter to deliver newspapers. A special fireworks display was put on for the locals on that evening. The 3.25 million pound centre was designed by Tomkins, Shaw & Evans Architects and was built on the former site of Fowler's brick pit. Miranda Fair was developed by Myer and Farmers and was the largest fully enclosed shopping centre in NSW. The centre held that title until Roselands opened a year later. Miranda Fair featured a Farmer & Company department store on three levels, Woolworths supermarket and 18 speciality stores. It also had a child minding centre, playground and parking for 1100 cars. Miranda Library moved into the shopping centre in 1964.Offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revesby, New South Wales
Revesby, a suburb of local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 22 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the South-western Sydney region. Revesby is mostly a residential suburb, which was developed as part of Sydney's post-war urban sprawl, and contains many modest freestanding bungalows built from asbestos cement sheeting ( fibro). Revesby is bounded on the north by Canterbury Road and the suburbs of Bankstown and Condell Park, on the south by Revesby Heights and Picnic Point, on the Georges River, on the west by Panania, and on the east by Padstow. History Revesby was named in 1913 in honour of Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour, when he reached the east coast of Australia in 1770. Banks had inherited his father's estate of Revesby Abbey, in Lincolnshire, England, so he was known as the Squire of Revesby. He is also co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milperra
Milperra, a suburb of Local government in Australia, local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 24 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the South Western Sydney region. History Milperra is an Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal word for ''a gathering of people''. The land at Milperra was taken over by George Johnson Jr. After World War I, returning soldiers established poultry farms and vegetable gardens in the area. The area commonly known as Thorns Bush, became officially known as Soldier settlement (Australia), Bankstown Soldier Settlement in 1917. Many streets in the area are named after World War 1 battles and officers. The Milperra College of Advanced Education was established in 1974, bringing tertiary education to south-western Sydney. It became the Macarthur Institute of Higher Education in 1983, and then became the Western Sydney University#Bankstown, Bankstown campus o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bankstown Central
Bankstown Central (previously known as Centro Bankstown and Bankstown Square) is a shopping centre in the suburb of Bankstown in South Western Sydney. Transport The Bankstown line offers frequent services to Bankstown station which is a short walk from the centre. Bankstown Central has bus connections to Greater Western Sydney, Inner West, St George, Sutherland Shire, as well as local surrounding suburbs. It is served by Transit Systems and U-Go Mobility. The majority of its bus services are operated from the bus interchange at the eastern end of The Mall. Bankstown Central also has multi-level car parks with 3,174 spaces. History Bankstown Square opened on 21 September 1966 by Lady Cutler, the wife of the then NSW governor Roden Cutler. The centre was developed and owned by Lendlease and was at the time Australia's largest shopping centre, and remained for many years the flagship property in Lendlease's portfolio.Clark L (2002) Finding a Common Interest'. Cambridge Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U-Go Mobility
U-Go Mobility is a bus company in Sydney, Australia, that operates services in Region 10, which serves South Western Sydney, and Sutherland Shire. It is a 50:50 joint venture between UGL and Go-Ahead Group. History On 22 December 2022, U-Go Mobility was awarded a seven-year, $500 million contract to operate bus services region 10 in the Canterbury-Bankstown, Georges River and Sutherland Shire regions. The enlarged region 10 incorporates the services of region 5 formerly operated by Punchbowl Bus Company and region 10 services formerly operated by Transdev NSW. It commenced operations on 1 July 2023. Within the first month since commencing operations, the on-time running of services was severely hampered compared to the two previous operators. When school term 3 begun on the 17 July 2023, U-Go reportedly cancelled 430 trips per weekday, including delayed school bus services. On 21 July 2023, Transport for NSW announced a deadline of 25 July for U-Go Mobility to reply to a " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidcombe Railway Station
Lidcombe railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Suburban line, serving the Sydney suburb of Lidcombe. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 Western, T2 Leppington & Inner West, T3 Liverpool & Inner West Line, T6 Lidcombe & Bankstown Line and T7 Olympic line services. History Lidcombe station opened on 1 November 1858 as Haslam's Creek after local landowner, Samuel Haslam. When in 1867 land was set aside for a cemetery nearby, the residents renamed the locality Rookwood. The official name of the station followed, being renamed Rookwood in 1878. By the turn of the century the Necropolis was also called Rookwood, so on 1 January 1914 the station name was renamed again to Lidcombe.Lidcombe Railway Station Group NSW Environment & Heritag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
