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	Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left.
		Sydney is a significant global and domestic tourist destination and is regularly declared to be one of the most beautiful and liveable cities in the world, admired for its harbour, beautiful coastline, warm and pleasant climate and cosmopolitan culture.
		Sydney is located in a coastal basin between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Blue Mountains to the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney (2462 words)

	Sydney underground railways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because the original underground lines were built in conjunction with the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a decision was made to have the lines in shallow tunnels so as to minimise the height difference between the underground rails and their extension across the bridge.
		The third underground line is the Airport Line, which opened in the year 2000, prior to the Sydney Olympics.
		The line was originally intended to be extended from Epping to Parramatta, incorporating the existing Carlingford line, however this section has been postponed indefinitely.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_subways (789 words)

	Airport Railway Line, Sydney [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lines of Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australia's largest and oldest city, founded in 1788.
		It consists of a line that begins at Town Hall station in the City Circle, at Central station it splits into a branch that runs via Sydenham and a branch that runs via Sydney Airport that both rejoin at Beverly Hills.
		The line and some of the stations were constructed by a corporation and attract a higher fare than is usual for CityRail lines.
	www.wikimirror.com /Airport_railway_line,_Sydney (644 words)

	Epping to Chatswood railway line, Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Epping to Chatswood line (originally to be the Parramatta Rail Link) is a railway line under construction in the Northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
		This required the elimination of the planned station at the University of Technology, Sydney, Kuring-gai Campus; the required increased depth of the tunnel to go under the river made a station at that point impractical, due to the required depth of the escalator shafts.
		The railway line was originally intended to continue from Epping to Parramatta, partially travelling along the existing Carlingford railway line, Sydney surface line which would be widened from single-track to dual-track.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parramatta_Rail_Link (279 words)

	Articles - Railway station layouts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Schiphol Airport - the railway station is in a tunnel under the airport.
		Amsterdam Sloterdijk - at ground level is the railway from Amsterdam to Haarlem and Zaandam, with branches to Alkmaar, Purmerend, and Hoorn ; at elevated level is the railway from Amsterdam to Schiphol Airport (and thence to Leiden and The Hague).
		Sydney Wolli Creek station - two side platforms are below ground and serve the East Hills - Airport line, and one island platform is above ground, serving the Illawarra line which crosses at this point.
	www.lifevalley.com /articles/Railway_station_layouts (789 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zeeman effect Zeeman effect, splitting of a single spectral line (see spectrum) into a group of closely spaced lines when the substance producing the single line is subjected to a uniform magnetic field.
		Transandine Railway Transandine Railway, former rail line, 156 mi (251 km) long, between Mendoza, Argentina, and Los Andes, Chile, traversing the Andes at Uspallata Pass.
		Wallace's line Wallace's line, imaginary line postulated by A. Wallace as the dividing line between Asian and Australian fauna in the Malay Archipelago.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Airport+railway+line,+Sydney (408 words)

	Mascot, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mascot, New South Wales, Australia is a suburb of Sydney.
		The suburb is located about 10 kilometres south of Sydney, on the north-west side of Botany Bay.
		The suburb is served by three railway stations on the Airport line : International and Domestic, are situated below the respective terminals of the airport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mascot,_Australia (111 words)

	Airport Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Airport Express is often the name of a fast train or bus service between a city and its airport.
		The Airport Express in Sydney, Australia is a bus service, however Sydney Airport is also serviced by a train service known as the Airport Link.
		Airport Express in Hong Kong is a train service, provided by MTR, between Hong Kong International Airport and Hong Kong station, which is located in Central, in the Central and Western district on Hong Kong Island.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/airport_express (195 words)

	Articles - Central railway station, Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The remoteness of "Central" from the commercial centre of Sydney stimulated the construction of the Sydney underground railways at an earlier date than the equivalent in Melbourne where the main stations were in the CBD.
		The platforms at Sydney's Central Station are numbered from 1 to 27, with 1 being the westernmost platform and 27 being one of the easternmost.
		The original Sydney Station was opened on 26 September 1855 in an area known as "Cleveland Fields." This station (one wooden platform in a corrugated iron shed), which was known at the time as Redfern, had Devonshire Street as its northern boundary.
	www.lifevalley.com /articles/Central_railway_station,_Sydney (1037 words)

	CityRail - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Illawarra line from Bondi Junction to Cronulla/Waterfall.
		The State's railway system quickly expanded from the outset with lines radiating from Sydney and Newcastle into the interior of New South Wales, with frequent passenger railway services in the suburban areas of Sydney and Newcastle along with less frequent passenger trains into the rural areas and interstate.
		He was involved in the design and construction of Sydney underground railways in the 1920s and 1930s, but he is more famous for the associated design and construction of Sydney 's greatest icon, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/CityRail (2461 words)

	Sydney's airports
		The airport is located 8 km from the central business district of Sydney, providing a convenient location for many users.
		airport, at Badgerys Creek, was taken by the Federal government in 1985.
		The EIS was started in 1996, and the draft report was released in late 1997, but the government has not made a decision on whether to go ahead with construction.
	www.noaircraftnoise.org.au /Airports.html (413 words)

	Innovation - Rail Makes a Comeback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is the first new railway line in Sydney since the opening of the Eastern Suburbs Line in 1979 and is already on the State Rail Authority’s CityRail network map.
		Here, according to the architects, ‘the heart of the station’ is lined with a golden stone cladding with all surfaces awash with warm indirect lighting creating a sense of comfort, safety and destination.
		Airport Link expects initial patronage of 46,000 one-way trips per weekday with a breakdown of 15,000 air travellers and friends, 6,300 airport related employees and the balance of 24,000 residents and employees using Mascot and Green Square Stations.
	www.dbce.csiro.au /innovation/1999-08/rail.htm (1445 words)

	Private Investment Spurs Expansion In Australia - International Railway Journal - October 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first is the construction of the South West Metropolitan Railway to Mandurah by 2007 and the second is the extension of the Northern Suburbs Line, initially by 6.4km to Clarkson.
		The Olympic railway was completed in 1998, and the New Southern Railway, which serves the airport, opened in May. CityRail now awaits final go-ahead for two more major projects.
		But new rolling stock in Melbourne, Brisbane's new Airport line, and commencement of Perth's new railways are set to be the key focal points of progress in the next five years or so.
	www.railjournal.com /2000-10/australia.html (1230 words)

	Text of Action for Public Transport (N.S.W.) Inc. newsletter, June 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sydney City, South Sydney, and Randwick Councils, and the Darling Harbour Authority, have all awarded their bus shelter contracts to the French Decaux company.
		North Sydney Council has installed four extended-kerb bus stops, where the footpath protrudes to meet the bus instead of the bus having to pull in to the kerb.
		Badgerys Creek Airport would put limits to Sydney's urban sprawl, and with the excellent transport services proposed by the two speakers would also revitalize the south-west region in the same way the new Southern Railway to Kingsford-Smith is revitalizing South Sydney.
	www.aptnsw.org.au /19982.html (3352 words)

	Newsletter
		Marrickville Council considered taking action againstthe railway, with the council’s solicitor recommending action to a meetingon March 7, saying that there were good grounds to say that the EIS andthe minister’s approval were not valid.
		Sydney Airport has failed the Olympics capacity test becausea small increase over the previous busiest day required special measureswith extra staff from the airlines and they were unwilling to use the suspectautomated baggage system.
		EcoTransit Sydney is a public transport advocacy group.It learnt, as an organisation, from the protests against the M5.
	www.noaircraftnoise.org.au /NewsletterV5I4.html (3196 words)

	PAG - Sydney Offshore - Airport Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sydney Offshore will also provide a hotel, retail and leisure developments, parking for about 20,000 vehicles, cargo terminals, aircraft maintenance buildings, control tower, fire and emergency facilities...
		Sydney Offshore will utilise existing advanced technologies for bridge and offshore structures.
		The main bridge is the link between the airport and the mainland, planned as a six lane highway with provision for a dual track railway line.
	www.tierneyopus.com.au /pag/details.html (496 words)

	Text of Action for Public Transport (N.S.W.) Inc. newsletter, April 2001
		A Sydney Morning Herald article (30 Jan) about the threat to bicycles in China because of the growing number of cars, notes that there are now around 15 million cars in China, whereas 20 years ago it had very few.
		State Rail is promoting the airport line by recorded announcements at City railway platforms, but the lack of street level signs identifying Green Square and Mascot as railway stations does not help.
		Plans for a future railway, known as "Metrowest", under the western edge of the Sydney central business district are again under threat from developers who find it irksome to have to deal with the Rail Infrastructure Corporation.
	www.cs.su.oz.au /~jimd/apt/20011.html (3815 words)

	East Coast Aussie Nash Hash 2005
		The train from Sydney to the Central Coast is one of the most picturesque in Australia.
		The Central Coast is 75 kilometres north of Sydney.
		Over the railway line, left at the next set of traffic lights and the Gosford Hotel is on the right hand side of the next set of lights.
	www.hhh.asn.au /aussienashhash/getting.htm (701 words)

	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - Share Your History
		On the other side of the road we had the railway line, with the fully enclosed wheat bin running parallel and close, so as when it had to be emptied, the wheat could be transferred directly into railway trucks for transport to Fremantle.
		Also in this room was a telephone belonging to the railways, to be used by the train guards to phone up the next major station down the line, to let them know what time to expect their arrival.
		The completion of the rail line from Fremantle to Guildford in 1881 and its extension to the Eastern Goldfields in the late 1890s, led to development of the greater Midland area which included Bellevue where the presence of clay deposits suitable for brick making had been found.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /write_a_history_promotion (20356 words)

	Sydney Airport to the Blue Mountains Australia
		Airport trains will be full of commuters in peak periods.
		Dedicated Airport Express buses, with provision for luggage, operate from the international and domestic airport terminals to Sydney City, stopping at Central Railway Station.
		Airport trains start from the City Circle, travel underground from Central to the Domestic then International stations, then via the East Hills Line to the outer south-western suburb of Campbelltown.
	www.infobluemountains.com.au /rail/airport.htm (238 words)

	NewsXS, sources - SMH: National (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Petrol prices across Sydney hit a record high yesterday and were set to climb further.
		The way taxes are collected by the Federal Government and passed on to the states is difficult to understand and lacks transparency, a report by a global financial institution has found.
		Sydney's proposed desalination scheme could be the biggest of its kind in the world.
	www.newsxs.com /en/sources/179/more/30 (252 words)

	Museum Railway Station, Sydney [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Museum is a railway station on the City Circle line in Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australia's largest and oldest city, founded in 1788.
		The station is named for its proximity to the Australian Museum The Australian Museum is the oldest museum in Australia, centering on natural history and anthropology, with collections centering on vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, as well as minerology, palaeontology, and anthropology....
		Lines that run clockwise relative to the City Circle
	www.wikimirror.com /Museum_railway_station,_Sydney (395 words)

	The Broadmeadows Railway Line
		Sydney's is almost ready, and Brisbane's is coming soon too.
		In 1999, the government made the first moves to secure a land reservation for the project, however 3 options are still under consideration, and the project is progressing slowly..
		An extra track would be constructed form Footscray along the St.Albans line to Albion, then along the freight lines to Airport West/Keilor, and a choice of 2 spurs north to the airport.
	www.railpage.org.au /bms/airport.htm (488 words)

	NewsXS, sources - SMH: National
		A split between the Sydney Anglican diocese and the rest of Anglican Australia has intensified after the primate, Dr Phillip Aspinall, supported the Church of England's moves to clear the way for the consecration of women bishops.
		They have suffered the ignominy of being banned from the army, the pain of their condition and the stigma of being perceived as physically inept.
		A police drug sniffer dog on a routine sweep of Sydney's domestic airport has uncovered 10 kilograms of cannabis in a passenger's luggage.
	www.newsxs.com /en/sources/179/more/35 (289 words)

	Kosovo railway line re-opens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		KOSOVSKA MITROVICA — The railway line between Kosovo Polje and the village of Lesak, the Yugoslav republic of Serbia’s Kosovo and Metohija province, reopened Thursday after ethnic Albanian terrorists demolished the section of the line near the village of Mijalic, 3 km south of Vucitrn, on Sunday.
		The ethnic Albanian terrorists loosened the screws on railway sleepers moving the tracks from their position because of which six passenger train carriages were derailed late on Sunday.
		The line is the only link that Serbs in Kosovo Polje, Obilic, Priluzje and Svinjar have with Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan and Leposavic where they get their supplies.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19991001rail.htm (194 words)

	Waterloo, New South Wales - Result for Waterloo, New South Wales - Meaning of Waterloo, New South Wales - Definition of ...
		Category:Suburbs of Sydney '''Waterloo''' is an inner-city suburb of the Inner West (Sydney) Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
		Today, despite some social problems in some parts of the suburb, Waterloo is a undergoing gentrification with a rising business district focusing on technology-oriented firms and the development of more green space such as parks.
		Waterloo is accessible by bus from the city and 2000 saw the opening of the Airport railway line, Sydney Airport line of CityRail.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Waterloo,_New_South_Wales.html (285 words)

	Athenians flee the Welcome Home Games - Aussie Update -
		Seasoned campaigners recall the same effect during the 2000 Games in Sydney, with the local population fleeing ahead of the Olympic horde, bequeathing a road and public transport system comparatively unburdened by the workaday grind.
		Those Athenians who remain have been urged, through a saturation campaign of TV and billboard advertising, to be patient, nice to tourists and try, insofar as is Hellenically possible, to stop ripping off strangers.
		The new airport railway line has been laid, the tram is running, the last scratches of rudimentary landscaping are being hoed into place.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/11/1092102523758.html (834 words)

	Rail Now Campaign
		When many of Sydney's railways have been in operation for over 100 years, it is simply foolish to judge the success of the newest line by its performance in the first 3-4 years.
		At 7-8 trains per hour, the airport line is nowhere near its maximum capacity.
		At the same time that Mr Costa was using the Airport Rail Link "disaster" to cancel the Parramatta Rail Link, other parts of his own Government were planning on the basis of a significant expansion at Green Square, triggered by the building of the station.
	www.railnow.org.au /BP20040702ARL.asp (1522 words)

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