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.

* The second, the Eastern Suburbs line, opened in 1979.

Most of the platforms at Redfern and Central stations are above ground, including the platforms for the City Circle, but the Eastern Suburbs line is underground.

There were later plans to extend the Eastern Suburbs line from Bondi Junction to Bondi Beach, but the plans have since fallen through.

There are also two instances of disused tunnels and platforms on the Eastern Suburbs line at Redfern and Central ( see below ).

The never-used platforms at Central, numbered 26 and 27, lie above the Eastern Suburbs Railway platforms and have never been used for trains.

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

The Eastern Suburbs Line passing over the Eastern Distributor motorway in Sydney

1908 How papyrus defeated South Sydney and assisted in making Eastern Suburbs great

He was about to join Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby League, but had to give up his career due to family reasons.

He was about to join Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby League, but had to give up his career due to family reasons.

* 29 June – the World Club Challenge concept is trialled as English champions St Helens travel to Sydney to play Australian champions Eastern Suburbs.

* South Sydney wins the first Australian championship, defeating Eastern Suburbs 14 – 12 in the final

Darlinghurst is well-served by public transport, with many bus routes from the Eastern Suburbs converging on Oxford Street prior to entering the central business district.

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.

The project is called " Rail Clearways ", and the five new sectors are listed as the Illawarra and Eastern Suburbs Line, the Bankstown Line, the Campbelltown Express Line, the Airport & South Line and the North-West Lines.

* May 2006: New timetable for Eastern Suburbs, Illawarra and South Coast Line, including revised changes on all lines.

* October 2010: New timetable for Eastern Suburbs, Illawarra and South Coast Line ( Which includes extra services to Cronulla, extra weekend services for the Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra, & South lines as well as more direct fast weekend services between Kiama and Bondi Junction on the South Coast line ) including revised changes on all lines.

* Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Lines: Bondi Junction to Waterfall / Cronulla via City

The towns of Wentworth and Wentworth Falls, the federal Division of Wentworth, an electorate in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, the Wentworth Falls waterfall, and Wentworth Avenue which runs through the suburb of Kingston in Canberra, were named after him.

* Sydney Roosters, formerly Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club

The club is a member of the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer.

The tournaments who did not want to provide prize money eventually faded out of the calendar, including the U. S. Eastern Grass Court circuit with stops at Merion Cricket Club and Essex county club.

Partizan is the first Eastern European football club which played in a European Cup final ( in 1966 ).

The main local football club is Great Yarmouth Town, also known as the Bloaters, who play in the Eastern Counties League.

The local football club, Bungay Town, currently play in the Anglian Combination, having previously been members of the Eastern Counties League.

The club then went on to lose the Southern League Championship final against the Eastern Champions Brighton and Hove Albion Reserves 4 – 0 but it was the start of an upturn in the club's fortunes.

The Big Four went out of existence during the Second World War, but the Riders were able to field a club in the Eastern Rugby Football Union, along with Balmy Beach, Montreal and the Argonauts.

Despite winning the Supporters ' Shield for best record in the league, the club would be eliminated from the MLS Cup in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

The Blue Bombers set attendance records in 2011, most noticeably the club posted six consecutive sell-outs at Canad Inns Stadium in the regular season in addition to selling out the Eastern Division Championship game.

The club won the President's Trophy that season, despite the organization filing for bankruptcy protection, and qualified for the Eastern Conference Finals before losing to the eventual Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils.

It would become home to the Boston Yacht Club, Corinthian Yacht Club, Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead Yacht Club, Dolphin Yacht Club, and the oldest junior yacht club in America, the Pleon Yacht Club.

They are the only Serbian ( and ex-Yugoslav ) club to have ever won the European Cup, having done in 1991, and the only team from the Balkans and Eastern Europe to have ever won the Intercontinental Cup, which it won also in 1991.

Red Star is one the most successful clubs from the Balkans and Eastern Europe being the only club which was both European and World club champion.

Red Star is the most successful club from Serbia ( and former Yugoslavia ) in all European competitions, and the only club from Eastern Europe that has won both UEFA Champions League and Intercontinental Cup.

Still, Partizan became the first club from the Balkans and Eastern Europe who reached the European Cup final.

The local football club, Thetford Town, plays in the Eastern Counties League.

Eastern Washington University offers club, intramural, and varsity sports.

They then beat the New Britain Red Sox in three straight games to become the first Detroit Tigers farm club to win the Eastern League championship.

In 1886 workers at the Arsenal formed a football club initially known as Dial Square after the workshops in the heart of the complex, playing their first game on 11 December ( a 6-0 victory over Eastern Wanderers ) in the Isle of Dogs.

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.

The club was founded in 1908 in Paddington, Sydney, under the name Eastern Suburbs ; in 1995 the name was changed to the Sydney City Roosters and, in 2000, to simply the Sydney Roosters.

After two AFL crowns and three Eastern Division titles, Talamini watched the club rebuild and win the division again in 1967.