SYDNEY

VIDEOS

Above: YouTubeCA video - Seven News Sydney - Flashback: Sydney Trams (22/2/2014) - Length: 3:23 mins.	Above: YouTubeCA video - The Last Trams in Sydney and Newcastle Feb 1961 - Length: 5:21 mins.

PHOTOS

MAPS

INSET: CENTRAL SYDNEY

I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).

Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.

TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Sydney Tramways

Tram routes in Sydney were identified by their termini. The numbers used on the maps and below are strictly for convenience, and were never used by Sydney Tramways itself. Routes ending in A and B (e.g. 12A and 12B) are only distinguished on the maps where they diverge - where they both run, only the number (e.g. 12) is shown.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Tram lines: ca. 230 km.

HISTORY

• Horse tramways: 23 Dec. 1861 - 31 Dec. 1866. (Also, short-lived systems in 1879, 1894)
• Steam tramways: 30 Sept. 1879 - 1910 (on the private line Parramatta to Redbank Wharf (Duck River) until 1943).
• Cable tramways: 1894 - 14 Jan. 1905.
• Electric tramways (first generation): 9 Nov. 1890 - 20 Apr. 1892; 8 Dec. 1899 - 25 Feb. 1961.
• Electric tramways (second generation): 11 Aug. 1997 - today.
• Monorail: July 1988 - 30 June 2013.
• Metro: 26 May 2019 - today.

GAUGE

• All tramways: 1435 mm.
• MetrO: 1435 mm.

TRAM PRESERVATION

The Sydney Tramway Museum in Loftus, about 30 km south of the city centre, runs old trams along 3.5 km. of track.

SOURCES

PRINT

• Keenan, D.R. Tramways of Sydney. Sans Souci (N.S.W.): Transit Press, 1979.
• Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile No.126: Sydney, Australia" Tramways & Urban Transit, Apr. 2018 (81: 964), p.142-148.
• Sydney Tramway Museum: Visit souvenir. Sutherland (N.S.W.): South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society, 2004
• Taplin, M. "Trams return to Sydney". In: Light Rail Review 8. London: Light Rail Transit Association, 2008 [p.34-39].

WIKIS

• Dulwich Hill Line
• Light rail in Sydney
• Metro North West Line
• Railways in Sydney
• Sydney Metro
• Sydney Monorail
• Trams in Sydney

WEB SITES

• Farewell Sydney monorail
• Map of Sydney’s Tram Network (in voomMAPS)
• Remember Sydney monorail
• Sydney Metro
• Sydney's Tram History
• Transdev
• Transport for NSW

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