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Sydney and Coal
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.
* Sydney Coal Railway
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.
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 ).

Sydney and Railway
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.
Category: Railway lines in Sydney
* 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
Category: Railway lines in Sydney
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

Sydney and former
Point Edward on the west side of Sydney Harbour is the location of Sydport, a former navy base () now converted to commercial use.
Of the former, Sydney Watson's Scarlet and Purple ( 1913 ), The Mark of the Beast ( 1915 ) and In the Twinkling of an Eye are cited as examples of the genre.
Crowe is friends with many current and former players of the club, and currently employs former South Sydney forward Mark Carroll as a bodyguard and personal trainer.
The allegations of corruption against Askin were revived in 2008 when Alan Saffron, the son of the late Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron, published a biography of his father in which he alleged that Saffron had paid bribes to major public officials including Askin, former police commissioner Norman Allan, and other leading figures whom he claimed he could not name because they were still alive.
This squat, a large warehouse with several unusual spaces able to be used as theatres or other venues ( thanks to its former use by the Navy ) became a critical site for the development of arts and music in Sydney in the mid to late 1980s, with independent musical and art events being held there regularly.
The trading of Adam Schneider and Sean Dempster, as well as the team being coached by the former assistant coach at Sydney, Ross Lyon, plus the fact that former Saints players Barry Hall, Tony Lockett and Peter Everitt had played for the Swans, have led to a much stronger rivalry between the clubs, with matches being dubbed " Ross versus Roos " ( from 2007 until 2010 ) by many commentators.
* Transport Construction Authority, a former agency of the Government of New South Wales with responsibility for new railway projects in the city of Sydney, Australia.
Paul Kelly ( born 28 July 1969 ) is a former Australian rules footballer, winner of the Brownlow Medal and captain of the Sydney Swans for ten seasons.
Statues of Edward can be found throughout the former empire, such as those in Waterloo Place, London ; Centenary Square, Birmingham ; Union Street, Aberdeen ; Queen's Park, Toronto ; North Terrace, Adelaide ; Franklin Square, Hobart ; Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne ; Phillips Square, Montreal and outside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
He also hosted the Australian Conservation Foundation ’ s Spirituality and Sustainability Forum with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and is an ambassador and former board member of the Royal Botanic Gardens Foundation, Sydney.
Statistics Canada classifies Sydney as a medium population centre which for census purposes includes the neighbouring communities of Westmount, a significant portion of Sydney River, and a other portions of the former Cape Breton County.
Sydney is served by Highway 125 which connects to Highway 105 and encircles the former city limits to its eastern terminus.
Other port facilities on Sydney Harbour are located outside the former city limits in Point Edward ( Sydport ) and North Sydney ( Marine Atlantic ferry terminal ).
Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport is located several kilometers outside the former city limits in Reserve Mines.
At the Australian Federation Convention which produced the first draft that was to become the Australian Constitution in Sydney in 1891, a former Premier of New South Wales George Dibbs described as the " inevitable destiny of the people of this great country " the establishment of " the Republic of Australia ".
It came under intense scrutiny in July 2002 when the Washington Post alleged in an editorial that the program was vaguely defined, and investigative political journalist Ritt Goldstein observed in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald that TIPS would provide America with a higher percentage of ' citizen spies ' than the former East Germany had under the notorious Stasi secret police.
Nevertheless, in 2007, a municipality in Sydney recognised Buie as the man who shot down Richthofen, placing a plaque near Buie's former home.
* Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultra Marathon, a former marathon race.
On the same date the organisation reverted to its former name, " Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras " ( from " New Mardi Gras "), as more than 9, 100 participants joined in the 2012 Parade, on 134 floats.
These were Lily Tomlin, a gay actress and comedian ; Peter Tatchell, a world-renowned gay rights campaigner ; Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations at that time ; Bev Lange, Chief Executive Officer of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation at the time, a former President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a former co-chair of the Sydney Gay Games ; Lex Watson and Sue Wills, Campaign Against Moral Prosecution's ( CAMP ) first Co-Presidents ; and Hannah Williams and Savannah Supski, who had recently protested against the ban against same-sex couples at Hannah's Melbourne school formal.

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