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

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.

In 1910, DOMCO and DISCO formed the Sydney & Louisburg Railway to haul coal and steel from the mines and mill to these ports.

The Sydney and Louisburg Railway ( S & L ) is a historic Canadian railway.

In 1910, the Sydney and Louisburg Railway was incorporated to operate all DOMCO railway lines.

In 1961 DOSCO had its subsidiary the Cumberland Railway assume the operations of the Sydney and Louisburg Railway on Cape Breton Island.

The road did business as the Sydney & Louisburg Division of the Cumberland Railway.

In 1973, the Sydney and Louisburg Railway Historical Society was created.

* Sydney & Louisburg Railway Museum

Devco Railway took over the operations of the Sydney and Louisburg Railway on March 30, 1968 when DEVCO expropriated the S & L as part of the assets of the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation, or DOSCO.

Indeed, ifor several years it continued to operate under its old name of the Sydney & Louisburg Division of the Cumberland Railway.

In 1973, the Sydney and Louisburg Railway Historical Society was created by retired employees of that company to assist with the tourist railway and to preserve the Louisbourg station.

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On March 30, 1968 DEVCO expropriated DOSCO's coal mines and the Sydney and Louisburg Railway, settling for a payment of $ 12 million.

One of DEVCO's first tourism-related developments in the early 1970s was the Cape Breton Steam Railway, a joint project with the Sydney and Louisburg Railway Historical Society, which saw unused Devco Railway tracks between Glace Bay and Port Morien used for operating a tourist railway, with coal-powered steam locomotives.

During the early 1980s, the Devco Railway retired its diesels locomotives inherited from the Sydney and Louisburg Railway, which had purchased them second-hand during the early 1960s, and purchased a fleet of new diesel locomotives and coal hoppers, as well as building new locomotive shops at Victoria Junction, between Sydney and Glace Bay, and shut down the Glace Bay roundhouse and machine shops.

The trackage was organized as the appropriately named Sydney and Louisburg Railway ( S & L ) in 1910.

On March 30, 1968 DEVCO expropriated DOSCO's coal mines and the Sydney and Louisburg Railway, settling for a payment of $ 12 million.

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.

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

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

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.

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

A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

More controversial changes included the 1967 abolition of Sydney City Council and increased rates of development in Sydney, often at the expense of architectural heritage and historic buildings.

* Bellevue, Glebe, an historic house in Sydney, New South Wales

Green bans helped to protect historic 18th century buildings in The Rocks from being demolished to make way for office towers, and prevented the Royal Botanic Gardens from being turned into a car park for the Sydney Opera House.

The bustling city centre of Cabramatta could have been confused with the streets of Saigon and historic " Chinatown ", while the Sydney CBD appeared very Western in comparison.

The Notre Dame School of Medicine, Sydney is located in the historic parish buildings associated with the Sacred Heart Parish in Darlinghurst.

* Digitised historic Sydney Morning Herald from the National Library of Australia

* Digitised historic Sydney Herald from the National Library of Australia

Sydney Smith, the famous wit, writer and vicar of Foston-le-Clay, successfully led a campaign to save Clifford's Tower, emphasising the historic importance of the location for the surrounding city.

Camperdown is a heavily-populated suburb, home to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the University of Sydney and the historic Camperdown Cemetery.

* The Hermitage, Ryde, a historic house in Sydney

* The Hermitage, Vaucluse, a historic house in Sydney

Notable displays on the Western side include a complete and particularly historic Lancaster bomber known as G for George, a Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine sunk during a raid on Sydney Harbour in 1942, rare German aircraft such as the Me 262 and Me 163, and a restored Japanese A6M Zero, that was flown in combat over New Guinea.

* Rona, Bellevue Hill, a historic house in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill

CBRM is home to several performance centres, including the Centre 200 sports arena in Sydney ( home to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles QMJHL team ) and the historic Savoy Theatre, in Glace Bay.

There are numerous historic walks through the area, visiting historical buildings such as Cadmans Cottage and Sydney Observatory, and the Dawes Point Battery, which was the first fortified position in New South Wales.

The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, the other being the historic Sydney Observatory.

St Albans is a small and historic village on the Macdonald River, New South Wales, Australia, about 94 kilometres ( 65 mi ) north west of Sydney.

The historic Members Pavilion under lights with the Sydney skyline behind.

: On a recent trip to Sydney, Australia, I noticed that the city has placed hotel-style ashtrays filled with sand on sidewalks throughout the central business district and the historic area called " the Rocks.

The concept began in Sydney, Australia in 1980 known as The Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Eisteddfod, a NSW Arts Council sponsored-event, including some Sydney high schools at the historic Hordern Pavilion.