Sydney's rail network | Australia's Railway History

Hello, I'm proud to present you the evolution of Sydney's railway network.
This video goes through the growth of Sydney's railway network in an easy format to show the building of the metropolitan railways of Sydney and their electrification.

Most of the narration done by Rose Beds.

Sources:
Various Wikipedia pages
NSW railway history

Programs used:
Adobe Premier Pro
Adobe After Effects

Edited by True Believers

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[the_train_man]

Not bad man! Love the animations. Living in Melbourne, this gave me and others lots of information about Sydney's awesome rail!

[sydneyrailvlogs.]

The ladies pronunciation is a bit off with some of the stops which is okay. But with my preference I prefer you doing the voice-over instead of someone else. But still this is a good video

[markeaston]

Great video thanks. This sets out the evolving history really well!

[scottietheshark]

Yes! What a great way to actually see in a video how Sydney has evolved... that voiceover's a shocker though

[anthonylemon]

Well done, great video and very informative. Thank you for producing it.

[rsepsot]

Great video! I love how visual and easy to understand it is.

[jptcclips]

This was very interesting! I never even knew there was a line from Westmead to Rogan’s Hill!

[tsegulin]

I used to take the train up the North Shore to school every day. Still love the Sydney rail system and make a point of taking the train whenever I'm back down there.
I've never seen the chronology of the rail system laid out like this before - thank you! I had no idea that so many lines were built and subsequently closed.

[warrenookland]

The Ropes Ck line was closed to passenger traffic in the early 80s. In 1986 the last passenger train (a tour) ran, then the overhead wiring was removed. (I think that was the last train to run the entire length of the line)
The St Marys end has been used on and off many times including for a period to allow for electric passenger trains shunting operations.

Now days the line is in use on;y for freight from between St Marys to just short of Christie St. Beyond that is abandoned or reused for other things.

[taowang]

4:13 the olympic park line is closed
4:23 walle creek Wolli creek actual name

[AUSSIENYC]

Wow thank you so much! That was really interesting

[jaredatherton]

2:57 Never heard of the Coranoola line before!

[leokimvideo]

I would call this the de-evolution of the network. Without the all important loop lines in the network that was part of John Bradfields original concept the Sydney network is a totally dysfunctional rail network that only required one issue in the city circle to affect the entire network.

[KenanTurkiye]

Heres something you may find interesting. :)

The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird
the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)

In the past 40 years 37 countries have changed their name.
Obviously one can not change the name of an apple or an orange etc in other languages,
but country names are like peoples' individual names, so if you're named John we don't call you Karen. :)

Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.

The name it self has a suffix, '-iye', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',
just like the Latin suffix of '-ia', which exists in such country names like
Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Indones-ia etc.
Basically, the use of '-iye/-ia' is the same as the the use of '-land' suffix in country names like
Ire(Eire)-land, Po(le)-land, Eng(Anglo)-land and so on and so on.

Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).

The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish been over 10, 000 years is much older than Latin which is around 1300 years old.

Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble (to sound like) 'Türkiye'
we got various spellings like;

Turq-uía (in Spanish),
Turch-ia (in Italian),
Turq-uie (in French)
Turk-ei (in German)
Turk-ey (in English)

Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as turkey was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named turkey....

...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird 'Turkey Fowl' to define 'Turkish Chicken'...

....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.

In time you don't get to call the harehound simply as Greek or you don't call the terrier Britirsh, or shepherd as simply German,
but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just 'Turkey' and later 'turkey', and this went on for hundreds of years.

Now in modern times, this caused confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on an atlas.

Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )

So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )

Best wishes. ;)

[mr_skylne]

Wow, there are a lot of stations here that I did not know about, great video! Btw can you do evolution of the Intercity line in Sydney too?

[fayyadahnafhassan]

tell me every platform which way the train goes to in stations from Campbelltown to Revesby and Penrith to city pls because I want to know

[hazptmedia]

Also just a correction 4:40 its 2020 not 2019

[RahulKaleWasTaken]

Very interesting seeing how the train line that I use every day was built

[ademari]

If you wanna add something extra. The line from tallawong to chatswood got extended to Bankstown in 2025.

[monketok]

2:48 Small fact, this was the year the Harbour Bridge opened, allowing that connection to be made!