The Sydney Suburban & City Underground Railway - Sydney - New South Wales 

Sydney’s suburban railways multiplied in the later nineteenth century, but steam trains still dumped you at the city fringe and left you to the trams. John Job Crew Bradfield spent years arguing for the other idea: electrify the metropolitan lines, take them under the park, loop the city, and throw a harbour crossing. War delayed the dig. Then cut-and-cover through Hyde Park produced Australia’s first underground passenger stations.

The first City Railway section — new electric platforms at Central, plus Museum and St James — opened to passengers on 20 December 1926. (A trial train with Bradfield aboard had run on 9 December; the public date is the 20th.) Town Hall and Wynyard followed on the western arm as the Harbour Bridge approaches advanced; those stations and the bridge railway opened with the Bridge in 1932. St James sat as a stub terminus for three decades until Circular Quay station closed the City Circle on 22 January 1956. This is not the Eastern Suburbs Railway (Bondi Junction, 1979) and it is not the Metro.

Bradfield - The Harbour Bridge - The Trains - Water - irrigating The Continant

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The Harbour bridge








the Sydney Train System


Sydney has A Number Of Little Known railway Tunnels. The Oldest one Was built Under george Street in 1855 From The Sydney Railway Yard to Darling Harbour. A Gap At Broadway Let the Smoke From The Steam Trains Escape. The Tunnel Is Still in Use ((Not Sure What It is in Use For ))



Another Old Tunnel runs underneath Jubilee park At Glebve. It Forms Part Of The Metropolitan goods line Which Runs From Darling Harbour to Cantebury. The Line Was Started in 1855 & Finished In 1917. The Line Is Only Used For Goods And As No Passengers Travel on It, Few People outside The Railways Knows Of Its Existence.

However the Line Was Known To Thousands of American Troops Whio Labnded At Rozelle Bay Firing The Scond Woprld War,. A Monument In the Rozelle Mar5shalling Yards In A Reminder Of Those Days

A Number Of Unused Tunnels Were Built in The 1920's As Part Of the Dr J. j. c. Bradfield Scheme For Sydneys Transport. They Include tunnels Near Wynyard Station Which WEere Used For Many Years By Trams. They Are now Used As A Carpark Under the Menzies hotel .

Short tunnels Constructed in the 1920's Around Town Hall Were Built In Case trhe Railways System Was Extended At Some Point in The Future`
















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Sydney Harbour Bridge 80th Anniversary (2012)

The Sydney Harbour Bridge spans the harbour at its narrowest between Dawes Point (south) and Milsons Point (north) — a riveted steel through-arch carrying road, rail and footways, with granite-faced concrete pylons. Ideas for a fixed crossing circulated through the nineteenth century (Francis Greenway is often cited as an early advocate under Macquarie); serious modern planning crystallised under engineer J. J. C. Bradfield, appointed to harbour-bridge and city-transit work from 1912. The Sydney Harbour Bridge Act 1922 authorised a high-level cantilever or arch; the construction contract went to Dorman, Long & Co. of Middlesbrough in 1924, with detailed structural design associated with Sir Ralph Freeman.

Approach and foundation work ran through the mid-1920s; the arch halves met in 1930. Premier Jack Lang officially opened the Bridge on 19 March 1932 — famously after New Guard member Francis de Groot slashed the ceremonial ribbon. Roughly eight years of construction employed thousands through the Depression; granite came from Moruya, steel from England and Australian mills. The Bridge remains a National Heritage–listed landmark and the everyday link Bradfield tied to the City Circle and northern lines.

The 2012 “80th anniversary” framing and any embedded video can stay as media; the paragraphs above are the place history the thin anniversary heading lacked.