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Murrays was founded by Bill Murray in the early 1950s as a school bus operator in Canberra. The operation was taken over by Ron Murray in 1970 by which time it was operating services to Captains Flat, Kowen Forest, Naas, Tidbinbilla, Uriarra and Williamsdale with 10 buses. Murrays were operating seven school buses when the services were taken ...
The Canberra line, an 8 km (5.0 mi) branch line from Queanbeyan to Canberra, was opened in 1914. [126] A 34 km (21 mi) branch line from Bungendore to Captains Flat was opened in 1940 and closed in 1969, a few years after the closure of the local mines. [127] The Crookwell line opened from Goulburn to Crookwell in 1902; it closed in 1985. [128]
Pacific Motorway (Sydney–Newcastle) / -33.719959; 151.106185. / -32.813612; 151.635522. M1 Pacific Motorway is a 127-kilometre (79 mi) motorway linking Sydney to Newcastle via the Central Coast and Hunter regions of New South Wales. Formerly known but still commonly referred to by both the public and the government as the F3 Freeway, Sydney ...
At its Sydney end, Hume Highway begins at Parramatta Road, in Ashfield. This route is numbered as A22. The first 31 kilometres (19 mi) [ 1] of the highway was known as Liverpool Road until August 1928 [citation needed], when it was renamed as part of Hume Highway, as part of the creation of the NSW highway system.
An Xplorer on the current, non-HSR Sydney-Canberra service. In 1993, the Speedrail Consortium (a joint venture between Alstom and Leighton Contractors) made a proposal for a high-speed rail link between Sydney and Canberra. It was initially going to cost A$2.4 billion ($4.1 billion in 2013).
Australians convicted of bank robbery: Brenden Abbott (born 1962), known as the Postcard Bandit [ 1] Darcy Dugan (1920–1991), bank robber and New South Wales' most notorious prison escape artist [ 2] Keith Faure (born 1951), from Victoria, career criminal [ 3] Victor Peirce (1958–2002), from Melbourne, member of the Pettingill family [ 4]
1210 was built in 1878 by Beyer, Peacock & Company, Manchester. It arrived in Sydney and began its working life as No. 120 on the southern and western lines. [1] After 15 years service the locomotive was transferred to Penrith and in 1896 it was transferred to the far north-west of NSW. The locomotive was returned to Sydney in 1912 and in 1914 ...
Collector is a small village on the Federal Highway in New South Wales, Australia halfway between Goulburn and the Australian Capital Territory. [2] It is seven kilometres north of Lake George. The name is also applied to the surrounding area, for postal and statistical purposes. At the 2021 census, Collector and the surrounding district had a ...