Sydney has a prominent indie or lo-fi scene which features many rising, internationally touring bands such as Royal Headache, Circle Pit, Electric Flu, Raw Prawn, Bed Wettin ' Bad Boys and Dead Farmers.

Daihatsu showed more prototypes through the 1970s, for instance at the 1979 Sydney Motor Show, and then joined the Japanese Electric Vehicle Association's PREET program ( Public Rent an Electric Towncar ) with an electric version of the Max Cuore keicar.

In Nova Scotia, the Cape Breton Electric RCompany operated interurban services between Sydney, Glace Bay and New Waterford from 1901 to 1947, and the Pictou County Electric Company operated interurban services between the five towns of Pictou County from 1904 to 1931.

The station became the " North Sydney Electric Car Sidings ", with the track used for storage of rolling stock between the morning and afternoon peak periods.

* Pressed + metal 2003 / 228 / 1 Electric keyboard, Hohner Pianet, timber / metal / plastic, designed by Ernst Zacharias, made by Hohner AG, West Germany, 1962-1970 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

He was born in Sydney, and studied at PMG Engineering College and Sydney Technical College, before spending time in the United States studying at the General Electric Executive Staff College.

The Electric Horseman is a 1979 adventure and romance feature film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack.

Sydney Tramway Museum is the trading name of the South Pacific Electric Railway ( SPER ).

* 1979 – The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney ( New South Wales, Australia ) kills seven.

In Australia there is a dark ride named The Ghost Train at Luna Park, Melbourne, and a similarly named ride was destroyed by fire in 1979 at Luna Park Sydney.

Sydney Train Guards are not responsible for revenue or policing duties on trains as these roles are carried out by NSW Transit Officers.

The train service was replaced by a bus service which connects Toronto with Fassifern railway station. Train services operating from Fassifern include services to Sydney and Newcastle as well as the XPT service to Brisbane.

The front wall has a mural of a picture taken at Cleveland Street High School of a day when Dwayne " the D Train " McClain former Sydney Kings player visited the school.

She boarded the ' Bridal Train ' from Perth to Sydney and then travelled to San Francisco to be with her husband.

Major authors of this genre include Sydney Bauer, William Bernhardt, Bill Blum, Michael Connelly, William J Coughlin, Linda Fairstein, Erle Stanley Gardner, Mark Gimenez, James Grippando, John Grisham, Jeremiah Healy, David Kessler, William Lashner, John Lescroart, Phillip Margolin, Steve Martini, Brad Meltzer, John Mortimer, Michael Nava, Perri O ' Shaughnessy, Richard North Patterson, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Lisa Scottoline, Sheldon Siegel, Arthur Train, Scott Turow, and Kate Wilhelm.

Luddenham is also the location of ' The Train Shed ', the Sydney home of Thomas the Tank Engine and friends.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

Parade entrants include members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Australian Defence Force, Amnesty International Australia, Australian Marriage Equality, City of Sydney, Fire and Rescue NSW, Taronga Conservation Society and DNA ( magazine ) among many others.

Along with his wife, Beatrice Webb, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland, and Sydney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent political-intellectual society of England in the Edwardian era and beyond.

He returned to Sydney, joined the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1877, and in 1878 became an assistant astronomical observer at Sydney Observatory.

In 1922, the Theosophical Society began renting a mansion known as The Manor in the Sydney suburb of Mosman.

The ' Southern Cross L5 Society ' was formed in 1979, with groups in Sydney, Adelaide ( in 1984 ) and Brisbane ( in 1986 ).

Food was scarce in Sydney at that time and prices were being driven up, yet pigs were plentiful in the Society Islands and King could contract with Bass at 6 pence a pound where he'd been paying a shilling ( 12 pence ) previously.

* Sir Sydney Camm Commemorative Society

The Fabian Society was founded in the same year ; Sydney and Beatrice Webb were its leading members.

* Gavin Douglas: A selection from his Poetry, edited by Sydney Goodsir Smith, Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd for The Saltire Society, 1959

He is the author of numerous publications including The Declining Significance of Race, winner of the American Sociological Association's Sydney Spivack Award ; The Truly Disadvantaged, which was selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the 16 best books of 1987, and received The Washington Monthly Annual Book Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problems ' C. Wright Mills Award ; When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which was selected as one of the notable books of 1996 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review and received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award ; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics.

The Red-whiskered Bulbul was introduced by the Zoological and Acclimatization Society in 1880 to Sydney, and became well established across the suburbs by 1920, and continued to spread slowly to around 100 km away.

In the 1940s Alan McNiven, a Sydney veterinarian, introduced Dingo, Kelpie, German Shepherd, and Kangaroo Hound into his breeding program ; however, the Royal Agricultural Society Kennel Club ( RASKC ) would not register the cross breeds as Australian Cattle Dogs, even though McNiven argued they were true to conformation, colour and temperament.

Throughout the 1930s and ' 40s, the Sydney store supported The Dajonians Repertory Society, a Staff Club amateur theatre group.

For more information about Wotonga's construction, see the article, " John Gibbes: Builder of Admiralty House " that was published in April 1997 in Volume 37, Number 1, of the journal of the North Sydney Historical Society.

* Bankstown Theatrical Society, Sydney, Australia

On 2 March the Wilderness Society backed the publication of what were then rare full-page colour advertisements in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age newspapers of what would soon become an iconic photograph: Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend, Franklin River by Peter Dombrovskis.

Notable schools include the Jesuit colleges of St Aloysius and Saint Ignatius ' College, Riverview in Sydney, Saint Ignatius ' College, Adelaide and Xavier College in Melbourne ; the Marist Brothers St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, the Society of the Sacred Heart's Rosebay Kincoppal School, the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary's Loreto Kirribilli, the Sisters of Mercy's Monte Sant ' Angelo Mercy College, the Christian Brothers ' St Edmund's College, Canberra and Aquinas College, Perth-however, the list and range of Catholic primary and secondary schools in Australia is long and diverse and extends throughout metropolitan, regional and remote Australia: see Catholic Schools in Australia

Sydney's primary Koreatown is located in the heavily immigrant populated neighbourhood areas of Strathfield, Eastwood and Campsie, which is home to The Sydney Korean Society.

2MBS FM is a Sydney music radio station operated by the Music Broadcasting Society of New South Wales Co-Operative Limited.

* Igor Maver, ' Non-Australian Settings in Michael Wilding's Selected and New Short Stories Somewhere New ,' in Igor Maver, Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney ; Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 1999, 17-41.

* Ian Reid, ' The Social Semiotic of Narrative Exchange ,' in Terry Threadgold, E. A. Grosz, G. Kress and M. A. K. Halliday, ed., Semiotics, Ideology, Language, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 3, 1986.

Incorporated Engineers are recognized internationally through the Sydney Accord academic agreement as Engineering Technologists.

Please note: Incorporated Engineers who do not hold an accredited degree recognised under the Sydney Accord, or equivalent academic qualification, are currently not eligible to apply for IntET ( UK ) qualification.

* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

England went on to win the series 3 – 1, beating Australia by an innings and 83 runs at Sydney in the Fifth Test.

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

* 1905 – Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and sports executive ( d. 1990 )

* 1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A $ 2. 3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.

* 1906 – Central railway station, Sydney opens.

* Saturday 6 July 2013, Australia – Third Test, ANZ Stadium, Sydney

* Cross City Tunnel – similar project in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

Sydney was named as a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the Sydney Cricket Ground, where Lara scored his first Test century-the highly acclaimed 277 in the 1992 – 93 season.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

His mother and father had married four years previously, at which time Chaplin Sr. became the legal carer of Hannah's illegitimate son, Sydney John ( 1885 – 1965 ).

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

A large crowd of over 10, 000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup Hat-trick # Cricket | hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.

* 1999 – Glenbrook rail accident near Sydney, New South Wales.

* 2005 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese ( and many who are not ) in Cronulla Sydney.

* 1879 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor ( d. 1954 )