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Chapter 6: Transport and the Making of Cities, 1850-1970 (17439 words) |
 | Within the bigger cities, railway maintenance and manufacturing was also a spur to suburban growth, especially around the railway workshops in Redfern in Sydney and Williamstown (later moved to nearby Newport) in Melbourne. |
| The two remaining horse tramways in the eastern suburbs were converted to electric traction as part of the process of trust tramway building in 1915 and 1916. |
| The Eastern Suburbs Railway was eventually opened in 1979 (although diverted to run through King's Cross instead of beneath Oxford Street as Bradfield had envisaged), eighteen years after the trams it had been conceived to replace had been withdrawn. |
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Eastern Suburbs railway line, Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1196 words) |
| The Eastern Suburbs Railway was a part of engineer Dr John Bradfield's scheme for Sydney's railways (the Bradfield Scheme). |
| The railway was planned to continue approximately parallel to Oxford Street to Bondi Junction. |
| The Eastern Suburbs line was finally opened on 23 June 1979 by then New South Wales premier Neville Wran around 100 years after it was first planned and 31 years after construction began - construction had taken place at a rate of approximately 250 metres per year on average. |
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