This development is one of the factors which led to large-scale industrial development in the Sydney Coal Field of eastern Cape Breton County.

* the Sydney Coal Field in the southeastern part of the island along the Atlantic Ocean drove the Industrial Cape Breton economy throughout the 19th and 20th centuries — until after World War II its industries were the largest private employers in Canada

By the early twentieth century Sydney became home to one of the world's largest steel plants, fed by the numerous coal mines in the area under the ownership of the Dominion Coal Company.

The Sydney Coal Railway connects a bulk coal unloading pier in Whitney Pier with the Lingan Generating Station in Lingan.

The first members to graduate from the new Coal Valley High School were Ruth Schroeder, Evelyn Martin, Mary Kepple, Florence Robinson, Raymond Johnson, Harlan Raub, Robert Anderson, Sydney Bradford and Francis Creger.

In 1878, his father remarried to Ellen L. Spencer and moved the family to Sydney, Nova Scotia on the island of Cape Breton when he took over the Sydney and Louisbourg Coal and Railway Company Limited.

The GMA reorganized its mines on the north side of Sydney Harbour in 1900 as the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company ( SCOTIA ).

Hawker-Siddley's DOSCO subsidiary announced in 1965 that its mines had only 15 years of production left and concluded that opening new underground mines in the Sydney Coal Field would be too expensive.

William Whitney had a well known older brother, industrialist Henry Melville Whitney ( 1839 – 1923 ), president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, and later founder of the Dominion Coal Company and Dominion Iron and Steel Company in Sydney, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island.

Whitney joined his brother Henry in organizing the Dominion Coal Company Ltd. in 1893, and the Dominion Iron and Steel Company Ltd. in 1899, to exploit the mineral resources of the Sydney district of Cape Breton Island.

Two Sydney Coal Railway EMD GP38-2 | GP38-2 locomotives leave the Lingan Generating Station after unloading coal in Nova Scotia.

The steel mill at Sydney and the iron mine at Bell Island were owned by the Dominion Steel and Coal Company ( DOSCO ), which at one point was one of the largest private employers in Canada.

The line interchanges with the Sydney Coal Railway ( SCR ), formerly the Devco Railway, at Sydney, and with CN at Truro.

* Sydney Coal Railway ( former Devco Railway ), operates between Sydney, Nova Scotia and New Waterford, Nova Scotia and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island, railway trackage is owned by Nova Scotia Power Corporation, operation was subcontracted to SCFQ )

On the same date, Logistec Corporation announced that it was purchasing the Sydney Coal Railway ( SCR ) from the Quebec Railway Corporation.

Mining of the Sydney Coal Field can be traced as far back as 1720 when French soldiers from Fortress of Louisbourg pried coal from exposed seams along the coast near Port Morien.

Between 1858-1870, the GMA opened 19 underground mines in the Sydney Coal Field, with most production destined for export to the northeastern United States.

In addition to the GMA, many independently owned collieries opened in the Sydney Coal Field after 1858, including several US-financed operations at New Victoria, Bridgeport, and Reserve Mines.

Large-scale industrialization came to the Sydney Coal Field when two large conglomerates were formed in the 1890s: the Dominion Coal Company, or DOMCO ( in 1893 ), and the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, or SCOTIA ( in 1900 ).

Glace Bay served as the hub of the Sydney & Louisburg Railway and also as a major fishing port.

Railway connections between the port of Sydney to Canadian National Railway in Truro are maintained by the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway.

An A-Set ' Waratah ' double-decker Cityrail train at Central Railway Station, Sydney

Askin accused the state government of allowing the transport infrastructure of the state to decline and promised to build the Newcastle freeway without a toll, to construct the Eastern Suburbs Railway and to plan for a second crossing of Sydney Harbour.

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* June 23 – Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway.

The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway makes Sydney its eastern terminus and provides rail connections to CN in Truro via Port Hawkesbury.

It was originally part of the commercial port of Sydney, including the Darling Harbour Railway Goods Yard.

* Sydney and Louisburg Railway, an historic railway in Cape Breton Island, NS.

Broken Hill is one of the stops of the Indian Pacific passenger service, operated by the Great Southern Railway, from Sydney in New South Wales to Perth in Western Australia via Adelaide in South Australia.

However the arrival of Sydney and Louisburg Railway in 1894 brought heavy volumes of winter coal exports to Louisbourg Harbour's ice-free waters as a winter coal port.

The town was originally spelled Louisburg and several companies, including the Sydney and Louisburg Railway adopted this spelling.

The town's more recent history is preserved at the Sydney and Louisburg Railway Museum located in the restored railway station in the centre of town.

Liverpool is at the head of navigation of the Georges River and combined with the Great Southern Railway from Sydney to Melbourne reaching Liverpool in the late 1850s, Liverpool became a major agricultural and transportation centre as the land in the district was very productive.

It rises to the south-west of Sydney near the coal mining town of Appin, and then flows north past Campbelltown, roughly parallel to the Main South Railway.

* Historical NSW Rail Timetables-Historical Sydney Railway Timetables

* John Bradfield, Engineer and designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge ; Story Bridge ; and the Sydney Railway System

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Category: Railway lines in Sydney

Bathurst is also located on the Main Western Railway line that starts at Sydney Central Station and proceeds for 242 rail kilometres to Bathurst.

Early tram routes through Railway Square, Sydney | Railway Square

* Cumberland Railway and Coal Company.

The year 1883 witnessed the completion of a north / south Chicago and Great Southern Railway ( later the Chicago and Indiana Coal Railway ) line between Attica and Fair Oaks, some to the north.

Coal rail cars at the Ashtabula Railway

A through-line of the Norfolk Southern Railway line passes through the community, and also provides services to the nearby Buckingham Coal Company mine.

By 1895, he employed six men, and sold the mine to the Fort Smith and Western Coal and Railway in the following year.

Chadick eventually found financing and established the Choctaw Coal and Railway in 1888, but was unable to come to terms with J. J. McAlester over the issue of right of way.

The town of Earlsborough ( as it was spelled on the town plat ) began in 1891, when the Choctaw Coal and Railway ( later the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ) built a line west from the Seminole Nation into Oklahoma Territory.

The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, which has its roots in the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, the remnants of which were acquired in the late 20th century by the Reading Anthracite Company, acquired extentive coal lands and would become one of the most notable of the coal companies operating in Pennsylvania until the demise of the anthracite industry after World War II.

They founded the LaFollette Coal, Iron, and Railway Company in order to exploit mineral resources they had observed.

( 1956 ) Coal On The Move Via The Virginian Railway, reprinted with permission of Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1995 by Norfolk & Western Historical Society, Inc. ISBN 0-9633254-2-6

Coal delivered by rail from Newcastle's mines to Seattle fueled the growth of the Port of Seattle and attracted railroads, most notably the Great Northern Railway.

Throughout the mid-1880s, the Northern Pacific Railway, the parent of Northern Pacific Coal Company, pushed to reach Puget Sound across the Cascade Mountains.

Soon the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway built a line along the Coal River to transport coal from the coal fields in Boone and Logan counties into the hub in nearby town of St. Albans.

Around 1903, the new town of Page became the location of one if the earliest stations on the expanding Deepwater Railway, as well as home of the Page Coal and Coke Company.

:" Railway Service Crane ", " Sports Motor Car ", " Coal Tipper ", " Cargo Ship ", " Double Decker Bus ", " Lifting Shovel ", " Blocksetting Crane ", " Beam Bridge ", " Dumper Truck ", " Automatic Gantry Crane ", " Automatic Snow Loader ", " 4-4-0 Passenger Locomotive "

* Joseph Bryan Geoghegan born 1816 Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire ( musician and songwriter ) writer of " Down in a Coal Mine ", " John Barleycorn ", " Ten Thousand Milesaway ", " Pat works on the Railway ", " Johnny, I hardly knew ya ", and many others.

Finally, under the direction of General Cornelius Clarkson Watts, a Confederate veteran, construction of the Coal River and Western Railway began in 1902 and was completed in 1904.

Radstock was the terminus for the southern branch of the Somerset Coal Canal, which was turned into a tramway in 1815 and later incorporated into the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

Coal attracted investment which led to various companies, one of which was the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company, building an elaborate transport system of railways.

Didcot Railway Centre has an industrial example ( numbered DL26 and built to the same design as a Class 05 ) preserved after being used by the National Coal Board in the northeast.

Attractions in the town include the Big Pit National Coal Museum ( an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage ), Blaenavon Ironworks, the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Blaenavon World Heritage Centre, Blaenavon Male Voice Choir and many historical walks through Blaenavon's mountains.