Gymea is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Gymea is located 26 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.

The postcode is 2227, which it shares with adjacent suburb Gymea Bay.

The Gymea Lily, Doryanthes excelsa is a 6m tall perennial that is prevalent in the area.

Gymea is primarily a low density, residential suburb.

Located close to Gymea railway station, the suburb's shopping strip is known as Gymea Shopping Village.

Gymea railway station is on the Cronulla branch of the Illawarra railway line, part of the City Rail network, which provides regular rail services to the city.

Gymea railway station is on Gymea Bay Road, in the middle of the main shopping area.

Gymea is also home to a campus of the Sydney Institute of TAFE.

Gymea is home to the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, which features art galleries, art studios, a theatrette, gardens, meeting rooms, gallery shop and cafe.

Like many suburbs in the Sutherland Shire, Gymea maintains an active culture of youth sport and has well-established cricket, rugby league, swimming ( Gymea Bay Amateur Swimming Club ), football ( Gymea United FC, which is currently the largest club in the Oceania region ), and netball clubs.

* The Gymea Village Fair is held every year in the last Sunday in October.

Grays Point is adjacent to the Royal National Park and the suburbs of Gymea Bay and Kirrawee.

To the west is the suburb of Gymea Bay, across the bay of the same name.

Gymea Technology High School ( commonly known by its acronym, GTHS ) is located on the Princes Highway in the suburb of Gymea, in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, next to Gymea TAFE.

English is the only subject which is compulsory throughout the entire duration of a student's enrolment at Gymea THS.

Mathematics is compulsory at Gymea THS up until the end of Year 10.

The line section from Gymea to Caringbah was duplicated in 1985, and under the CityRail Clearways Project, the remaining sections of single line railway from Sutherland to Gymea and Caringbah to Cronulla were duplicated in 2010.

NightRide runs the following route via Gymea railway station:

File: Gymea railway station entrance. jpg | Entrance

File: Gymea railway station platform 1 from outside. JPG | Platform 1 seen from outside station

Services on the eastern side of the station connect Westfield Miranda, Gymea, Kirrawee and Grays Point.

Veolia Transport runs two routes via Gymea station:

The Gymea Lily has been adopted as a symbol of the area and features on the crest of many local organisations.

Gymea Technology High School also lies on Kirrawee's outskirts.

Gymea Bay takes its name from the small bay on the north shore of the Port Hacking estuary ( also known as the Port Hacking River ).

The Gymea Lily has been adopted as a symbol of the area and features on the crest of many local organisations.

By the 1920s, steam trams operated between Cronulla and Sutherland, via Gymea.

Although a crossing loop was installed at Caringbah Station when the line was opened, the single track line prevented the expansion of services to the Cronulla peninsula, and so in the 1980s it was decided to duplicate a section of the line between Gymea and Caringbah, with Gymea.

Originally, Gymea Station was one of two crossing loops between Cronulla and Sutherland, with the other being at Caringbah Station.

Working inland from the sea, the indented north bank of Port Hacking is formed by the suburbs of Cronulla, Woolooware, Burraneer, Caringbah, Dolans Bay, Port Hacking, Lilli Pilli, Yowie Bay, Miranda, Gymea Bay and Grays Point.

grass, Forest Grass Trees ( Xanthorrhoea arborea ), Sydney Waratah ( Telopea speciosissima ), Flannel Flowers ( Actinotus minor as well as Actinotus helianthi ), Bluberry Ash ( Elaeocarpus reticulatus ), Silky Hakea ( Hakea sericea ), Variable Bossiaea ( Bossiaea heterophylla ), Bonnet Orchids ( Cryptostylis erecta ), Hyacinth Orchids ( Dipodium variegatum / punctatum / roseum ), Pomax umbellata, Native Parsley ( Lomatia silaifolia ), edible Native Currants ( Leptomeria acida ), Broad Leaved Geebungs ( Persoonia levis ), Sydney Golden Wattles ( Acacia longifolia ), Gymea Lilies ( Doryanthes excelsa ), various Sheo-oaks ( Allocasuarina littoralis / distyla / verticillata etc.

The suburb has one public primary school, Gymea North Public School ; a Catholic primary school, St Catherine Labouré Primary ; a secondary school, Gymea Technology High School ; and the Sydney Montessori School for pre-primary, primary and secondary students.

* Gymea, a suburb of Sydney, Australia

Gymea Bay is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Gymea Bay is 27 & nbps ; kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.

Veolia Transport NSW buses ( routes 961 and 962 ) connect Bangor to Menai, Illawong, Alfords Point, Barden Ridge, Padstow, Bankstown, Sutherland, Kirrawee, Gymea and Miranda.

Over the last decade it has become a popular shopping and ' café culture ' district with many cafés, restaurants, boutiques and gourmet food shops opened along Gymea Bay Road.

Many children in Gymea attend schools in Gymea Bay, especially Gymea Bay Public School ( the largest primary school in the Sutherland Shire ), and Kirrawee.

CityRail, Sydney's train network is notorious for vandalism.

This is a toilet of a brand new CityRail H set | OSCAR train, damaged in just within a period of 5 years

Granville railway station is a major station on the South line and Western line of the CityRail network.

Cabramatta railway station is a junction station on the CityRail network, where the South line and Inner West line merge.

There are no train stations in Darlinghurst, however Kings Cross railway station on the CityRail Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra line is just over the northern border of the suburb.

Morisset railway station, located on Dora Street, is linked to Sydney and Newcastle by CityRail services on the Newcastle and Central Coast Line, and to Maitland and towns further north by CountryLink services on the Main North Line.

CityRail is an operating brand of RailCorp, a state-owned corporation of the Government of New South Wales, Australia.

CityRail is responsible for providing commuter rail services, and some coach services, in and around Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, the three largest cities of New South Wales.

The majority of the CityRail system is electrified with 1500 V DC supplied by overhead wire and are operated by double-deck multiple units.

The CityRail network is divided into three sectors, based around three maintenance depots.

The CityRail network is undergoing a process of expansion in response to concerns that rail services are inadequate in Western Sydney.

At present, Transport for New South Wales is undertaking or planning several construction projects for CityRail.

This is the first CityRail train to have new features: CCTV security cameras, Automatic DVAs, Wheelchair Ramps and indicator boards.

The CityRail Millennium or M set is a class of electric multiple unit operated by CityRail in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The Tangara ( an Australian Aboriginal word meaning to go ) is a class of electric multiple unit operated by CityRail in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Redfern railway station, located on the western edge of the suburb is a major station on the CityRail network.

Penrith Railway Station is a major railway station on the Western Line of the CityRail network.

Tullochs manufactured much of the rolling stock for what is now CityRail.

Rhodes railway station is on the Northern line of the CityRail network.

* The largest rail network in Sydney is heavy rail and run double deckers electric multiple unit trains that were introduced in 1972 with the CityRail L, R & S sets, these have allowed many more passengers to board the trains compared to the 1950s single level ' Red Rattlers ', and ' Silver Ghosts '.

* Miranda railway station is on the Cronulla branch of the Illawarra line on the CityRail network.

Bondi Junction railway station is an underground station which is the eastern terminus of the Eastern Suburbs railway on the CityRail system.

Olympic Park railway station was built to cater for large crowds to the stadium, and is accessible from the Strathfield and Lidcombe on the Western line of the CityRail network.