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Although crossing loops were installed at Caringbah and Gymea stations when the line was opened, the single track line prevented the expansion of services to the Cronulla peninsula, and so in the 1980s it was decided to duplicate a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) section of the line between Gymea and Caringbah, with Gymea. Miranda and Caringbah all ...
A single track tramway line between Sutherland and Cronulla, with four stations and a goods siding, opened on 12 June 1911. [33] By 1932 the tramway had closed. Competing bus services had begun to run with unrestricted competition, and the tram line by this time was so full with services that trams often ran late due to holdups at the crossing ...
The Cronulla line from Sutherland to Cronulla, which opened in 1939 replacing an earlier tram service; The Eastern Suburbs line from the Sydney CBD to Bondi Junction, which opened in 1979; Operationally and historically, the entire line from the Illawarra Junction at Redfern to its terminus in Bomaderry on the South Coast was known as the ...
On 9 March 1886, the line was extended to Waterfall. On 16 December 1939, Sutherland became a junction station with the opening of the Cronulla line. Although the electric wires continued south to Loftus and Royal National Park, until this was extended to Waterfall in 1980, Sutherland was the transfer station for services to Wollongong.
The line was further extended to Bomaderry through Kiama, opening on 2 June 1893. [1] [2] An American Suburban carriage passenger train approaches Austinmer station. (photograph dated 1914) View of Shellharbour Junction station, which opened in late 2014. Throughout its long history, the South Coast Line's roster of stations has changed ...
The Southern Sydney Freight Line, an extension to the dedicated freight network from the end of the Metropolitan Goods line at Sefton to Macarthur, opened in 2013. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The Northern Sydney Freight Corridor programme saw the loop between North Strathfield and Rhodes duplicated with an underpass, opened in 2015, whilst a third track ...
Kirrawee station opened on 16 December 1939 when the Cronulla line opened from Sutherland to Cronulla. [3] In 1954 there was a holdup, and a young man stole £43. [4] Kirrawee railway station was rebuilt as part of the duplication of the remaining single track sections of the Cronulla line, under the Rail Clearways Program.
[4] A federal loan for "state works" including "speeding up of the construction of the Sutherland-Cronulla line" was granted to the NSW government in November 1938. [5] The Cronulla line replaced the steam tramway. [3] A single track railway line replaced the tram service, opening on 16 December 1939. [6] [7]