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	Sydney
		The population of the Sydney urban center was 3,143,900 in 1991, accounting for 55 percent of the population of New South Wales.
		The Sydney Harbour Bridge, opened in 1932, was until 1992 the single central road and rail link connecting the city with the suburbs in the north, and it carried an estimated 35 million passengers a year in the 1980's.
		Sydney is governed by a city council consisting of a lord mayor and aldermen, elected on the basis of proportional representation.
	members.tripod.com /~worldsite/australia/sydney.html (1616 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Sydney is the financial capital of Australia and is also a significant domestic and international tourist destination and is regularly declared to be one of the most beautiful and liveable cities in the world.
		Sydney is located in a coastal basin between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Blue Mountains to the west.
		Sydney occupies two geographical regions: the Cumberland Plain, a relatively flat or rolling region lying to the south and west of the harbour, and the Hornsby Plateau, a plateau north of the harbour, up to 200 metres (656 ft) in elevation, dissected by forested valleys.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/sydney (3807 words)

	Sydney Architecture Images- HOME
		Built around Sydney Harbour, Sydney is known in Australia as the "Harbour City", and structures on the Harbour such as the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge are globally recognised icons of the city.
		The median age of a Sydney resident is 34, 12% of the population is over 65 years.[4] 12.3% of Sydney residents have educational attainment equal to at least a bachelor's degree, which is lower than the national average of 19%.
		Sydney Football Stadium (also known as Aussie Stadium) is home to such clubs as Sydney Roosters, Sydney FC and the NSW Waratahs, and the neighbouring Sydney Cricket Ground has been home to numerous sports for over a century.
	sydneyarchitecture.com (4201 words)

	Railways in Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sydney's first deliberately suburban railway was a line to Belmore which opened in 1896 and was soon extended to Bankstown.
		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.
		Until 1972, the railways in NSW were operated by the New South Wales Government Railways until this department was replaced by the Public Transport Commission (PTC), which was also responsible for bus and ferry services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Railways_in_Sydney (1291 words)

	Getting off the road to nowhere - smh.com.au
		Sydney's network is unusual in that it tries to fulfil three jobs at once: move people around the city, bring commuters in from the suburbs and allow travellers to move between cities.
		All of Sydney's underground stations, many at capacity, are all candidates for a major expansion and overhaul.
		This blueprint argues the rebuilding of the railway should be financed from consolidated revenue and executed in parallel to the special user-pays infrastructure levy financing the extension of transport links to areas with none.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/11/1047144973366.html (2985 words)

	Chullora "Bunker" and underground Tunnels. Were they used during WW2?
		An underground "bunker" and tunnel system is apparently located under the block of flats located in Davidson Street and Marlene Crescent, Greenacre (Chullora), in the area bounded by the Chullora Railway Workshops land, the Old Hume Highway and Centenary Drive.
		Access to the "bunker" is by steel doors set in concrete into the hillside in a railway cutting which runs from alongside the the railway line parallel to Marlene Crescent (down at a platform called Railwelders) and which leads under the block of flats.
		On the railway take over there was no attempt made to clean up the remains of the old business, and as appears common, many people were not aware of some of the "design aspects" of the facility.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/bunkers/chullorabunker.htm (835 words)

	Railways as World Heritage Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Railway companies frequently came to own canals, while the transfer of technologies between the different modes occurred regularly, especially during the construction phase: railway lines were built by teams of men known in Britain and elsewhere as ‘navvies’ — derived from the name ‘navigator’ that groups of labourers acquired while building inland waterways.
		Railway construction on the plains between 1858 and 1878, partly by the broad-gauge Eastern Bengal Railway (EBR) and partly by the metre-gauge state-owned Northern Bengal Railway (NBR), connected Calcutta with Siliguri, at the foot of the Himalaya.
		Railways have always been built as a means to some other end, and it would be fitting if this fact were reflected by the inclusion of railways as integral parts of locations designated as World Heritage sites partly or chiefly for other reasons.
	www.icomos.org /studies/railways.htm (14146 words)

	Sydney underground railways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sydney's underground railways do not form a true metro, because they are extensions of suburban main line services and are not a completely segregated system.
		The railways are run by CityRail, an agency of the government of New South Wales.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_underground_railways (798 words)

	Jack the Anarchist (Jack Grancharoff)
		I was working for the Railways again, and again I was faced with the same problems.
		He said that he worked forthe Railways and he still could work better than me. I challenged him to remove a sleeper as quickly as me. He tried, but to no avail because I had put a nail in the sleeper.
		Sydney anarchists and Libertarion Society at University of Sydney.
	www.takver.com /history/sydney/grancharoff.htm (11182 words)

	Steam and Speed: Industry, Transport and Communications
		The first passenger carrying underground railway was opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon on 10 January 1863.
		Although the public railway and the application of steam power to transport were pre-Victorian concepts, the widespread development of local, national and international railway networks was a Victorian phenomenon.
		By 1850, 6,000 miles of railway were in use, and throughout Victoria's reign British engineers were involved in railway construction and operation in many parts of the world, which in turn created new export markets for British locomotive and vehicle builders.
	www.fathom.com /course/10701037/session4.html (2510 words)

	John Bradfield - St Andrew's College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		For his thesis on the design and construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the city railway system, Bradfield was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science in Engineering by the University of Sydney, as well as the University Medal.
		Bradfield was appointed Chief Engineer for the Metropolitan Railway Construction and the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1912, prior to the existence of an approved plan for either the bridge or the city railway.
		His most notable work was the design and supervision of construction of a transport system for Sydney, including the city railway, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and connecting roads.
	www.standrewscollege.edu.au /html/john_bradfield.html (346 words)

	Railing against the system - National - www.smh.com.au
		Passengers relying on Sydney's beleaguered public transport today experience constant train cancellations, mysterious delays and justified concerns about the safety of a rail system that has generated dozens of embarrassing headlines for its officials.
		At the time, Sydney's rail system - the first line had been introduced in 1855 between Redfern and Parramatta but others sprung up across the city in the late 1800s - was based on steam power.
		Electrification of the railways was seen as the obvious solution, offering greater power and speeds to serve the city's sprawl.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/10/1092102450125.html?from=storyrhs (1318 words)

	Australia under threat — are we ready?
		We have learned from the London underground exercise the need to be able to get emergency personnel into the tunnels a lot quicker.
		Here in Sydney, underground railways, power, water and communications links — they're all destroyed by a single blast.
		ROSS COULTHART: With Sydney facing perhaps the biggest threat, it's worrying also that, according to risk management expert Neil Fergus, local government is blocking the installation of security bollards on key city buildings.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/cover_stories/transcript_2065.asp (2768 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 762 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Four suicide bomb blasts on underground trains and a bus in London in 2005 kill 52 people and injured 700.
		A recent security report on Australia's rail network found it was still vulnerable to an attack, despite allocating A$50 million (20 million pounds) to upgrade video surveillance and the removal of rubbish bins from Sydney's underground rail stations.
		But while developed cities like Sydney, London and Madrid will incorporate the latest security technology to thwart attacks, security analysts say ageing railways in developing countries will have to rely on plain old police work.
	www.thedailystar.net /2006/07/19/d607191317121.htm (684 words)

	Adelaide Booksellers: Railways
		A diverse collection of contemporary steam photographs taken by the author in his wolrd-wide search of Steam.
		World Railways: An Illustrated History of the Iron Horse.
		White, H.P. A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume 2 Southern England.
	www.adelaidebooksellers.com.au /webcurrentlist/railways_5.htm (677 words)

	Nsp [Archive] - TweakTown Forums
		Optus were also the first to provide coverage at all underground railway stations in Australia (which is really only Sydney and Melbourne), and there is a proposal for coverage along all of the rail tunnels, not just the stations.
		I didn't realise Brisbane had an underground railway.
		I've been on both Melbourne and Sydney's underground railways and there has been coverage at stations but not in the tunnels - however apparently the Airport-Central link in Sydney has coverage along the tunnels on Optus.
	www.tweaktown.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-127.html (679 words)

	Rail and Railways - International Train and Railway Travel Routes
		Rail and Railways - International Train and Railway Travel Routes
		Railway Resources with Worldwide Links to Railway and Train Companies
		Thalys Railway (High-Speed - Holland, Belgium, France, Germany)
	routesinternational.com /rail.htm (142 words)

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