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Historical Map: New South Wales By Train Information Wheel, 1938

January 23, 2018
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I’m loving this little promotional piece produced by the New South Wales Railway Department in 1938. The user would rotate the outer ring so that a city’s name would line up with the red arrow, thus revealing various facts about that place, including which railway line it was located on and how far from Sydney it was by rail. Here, Canberra’s statistics are shown. A lovely little piece of railway ephemera. Source: National Library of […]

Historical Advertisement: Opening of the Eastern Suburbs Railway, Sydney, June 1979

October 27, 2017
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A full-page ad in the Daily Telegraph newspaper promoting the opening of the Eastern Suburbs line. Along with the copy promoting all the benefits – modern stations, high speed escalators and automatic turnstiles amongst them – there’s a neat little diagram that shows how the line is integrated into the wider transit network. Along with the nicely stylised City Circle, there’s also lines radiating out from the new stations to show bus connections. Of interest […]

Submission – Draft Official Map: Sydney Trains, August 2017

August 20, 2017
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Sent my way by quite a few keen-eyed Aussie correspondents, including Thomas Mudgway, who offers this commentary: Another update from Sydney, this time fairly major. Transport for NSW is making some big changes to Sydney Trains’ operating patterns, with a new order of trains allowing them to boost the Western Line by something like 300 extra services per week. The T2 line cluster has been split so that we now have a T8, which runs […]

Historical Map: Sydney Rail Transport System Strip Map, c. mid-1970s

January 6, 2017
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Here’s a great old system map of Sydney’s suburban rail system from around the middle of the 1970s. It has to be from before 1978, as that’s the year that the Eastern Suburbs line opened, and it’s not shown here. I distinctly remember seeing a few of these in old “Red Rattler” carriages in the mid-to-late 1980s, so they lived on well past their “use by” date. As seen here, the maps lived above the windows […]

Cancelled Official Map – Public Transport Network Map of Sydney, Australia, 2016

September 12, 2016
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I’ve often lamented that Sydney’s transit maps each seem to live in a “mode vacuum”, where each individual map steadfastly refuses to acknowledge any other mode of transit, even though they’re all operated by the same agency. So the light rail map won’t show any connections to the main Sydney Train network, and the ferry map ignores the major train station located directly behind Circular Quay… that kind of stuff. Unfortunately, this new attempt at an […]

Historical Map: Randwick/Coogee Buses (370, 372, 373, 374), Sydney, c. 1987

July 14, 2016
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A fairly bare-bones map showing the buses from the CBD and Central Station through Randwick and Coogee. It’s notable mainly for the inset that shows the service pattern in the city before the opening of the pedestrianised Pitt Street Mall (the main map shows the routing after the Mall’s opening). The Mall is now such an integral part of downtown Sydney that it’s sometimes hard to believe that it once wasn’t there. This map also […]

Erroneous Sydney Ferries Map from “Lonely Planet” Guidebook

April 1, 2016
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My dad just sent me this Sydney Ferries map as featured in the latest “Lonely Planet” Guide to that city. It’s obviously licensed from the official version (February 2015, 2.5 stars) with some minor edits like the removal of the background grid lines.  However, the map’s whole background has been accidentally shifted upwards, leaving all the routes seriously misplaced relative to the harbour. The Parramatta River line now appears to use Parramatta Road to reach its […]

Submission  – Sydney Tram Network at its Maximum Extent by VoomMaps

March 15, 2016
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Submitted by the map’s creator, who says: After having tried for a long time to find a schematic route map for Sydney’s historical tram network without any success, I decided that the only option was to make one myself. This was a particularly tricky task as all of the maps I could find online showed only the tram tracks, but not how the routes functioned. After many hours going through many different websites, trying to […]

Submission – Unofficial Historical Map: Sydney Suburban Rail, 1950 by VoomMaps

February 10, 2016
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Submitted by VoomMaps, who says: Inspired by this schematic map of the Sydney Suburban Network from 1969 (June 2012, 2 stars), I decided to create a retro-looking map of the rail network in 1950 in a similar style. Transit Maps says: I think you’ve nailed the look and feel of this piece quite well, although – like me with my digital recreation of a 1939 map of the Sydney network – you’ve discovered that modern computer-designed […]

Submission – Updated Official Map: Sydney Trains Network, 2016

January 12, 2016
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Submitted by Thomas Mudgway, who says: The third version of the new TfNSW style Sydney Trains map has just been published, due to the integration of the recently completed South West Rail Link into the T2 line. It is leagues better than the original map (September 2013), and just looking over it by eye it appears most of the technical errors are gone. The only label I can see obviously out of place is Cherrybrook, which […]