SYDNEY

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INSET: DOWNTOWN SYDNEY

ROUTES

Operator: Metro Transport Sydney

LIGHT RAIL (TRAM) ROUTE

Metro Light Rail

Central Station - Chinatown - Darling Harbour - Pyrmont - Glebe - Rozelle Bay - Lilyfield

MONORAIL ROUTE

Metro Monorail

City Centre - Darling Harbour - Chinatown - City Centre [Circular route, one way]

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Light Rail (Tram) line: 7.2 km.
• Monorail: 3.6 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 - today.

GAUGE

• All tramways: 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.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Keenan, D.R. Tramways of Sydney. Sans Souci (N.S.W.): Transit Press, 1979.
• Sydney Tramway Museum: Visit souvenir. Sutherland (N.S.W.): South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society, 2004

WIKIS

• Metro Light Rail [En]
• Metro Transport Sydney [En]
• Railways in Sydney [En]
• Trams in Sydney [En]

WEB SITES

• Metro Transport - Monorail & Light Rail [En]
• Sydney's tram history [En]

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