Double Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district.It is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra.. Double Bay takes its name from the bay of Sydney Harbour and refers to the two geographical formations between Point Piper and …

The railways of New South Wales, Australia, use a large variety of passenger and freight rolling stock.The first railway in Sydney was opened in 1855 between Sydney and Granville, now a suburb of Sydney but then a major agricultural centre.The railway formed the basis of the New South Wales Government Railways.Passenger and freight services were operated from the …

The first part of the North Sydney tramway system was a double-track cable tramway which commenced at the original Milsons Point Ferry wharf, located where the north pylon of the Harbour Bridge is now. ... The commercial district of North Sydney includes the second largest concentration of office buildings in New South Wales, with a large ...

Garden Island is an inner-city locality of Sydney, Australia, and the location of a major Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base. It is located to the north-east of the Sydney central business district and juts out into Port Jackson, immediately to the north of the suburb of Potts Point.Used for government and naval purposes since the earliest days of the colony of Sydney, it was …

Maroubra is a beachside suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.It is 10 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Randwick.. Maroubra is the largest suburb within Randwick City Council by both area and population;. Maroubra Junction is a locality in the centre of the suburb.

New South Wales' railways date from 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, located at the intersection of Brown and Church Streets, Newcastle.Privately owned and operated to service the A Pit coal mine, it was a cast-iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway.. Many proposals for routing the …

Edgecliff is a small suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.Edgecliff is located 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra.The postcode is 2027. Edgecliff is surrounded by the suburbs of Double Bay, Woollahra, Paddington, Rushcutters Bay and Darling Point.

Botany Bay (Aboriginal: Kamay), an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13 km (8 mi) south of the Sydney central business district.Its source is the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and the Cooks River at Kyeemagh, which flows 10 km (6 mi) to the east before meeting its mouth at the Tasman Sea, midpoint between the …

Paddington is an upscale inner-city area of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.Located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the Sydney central business district, Paddington lies across two local government areas.The portion south of Oxford Street lies within the City of Sydney, while the portion north of Oxford Street lies within the Municipality of Woollahra.

Erskineville is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.It is located 6 kilometres south west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney.Erskineville is a diverse suburb homing to a wide variety of ethnicity from its varying Southeast Europe and Aboriginal community.