History of Trains In Sydney Bradfield Era

In 1912, the NSW Public Works Department appointed John Bradfield as Chief Engineer for Metropolitan Railway construction. In 1915 he designed a plan to electrify the all Railway Lines and to Build the City Circle Loop as we know today. This didn't take off until after World War 1, once the government had some money to build these large scale capital work projects. The Tunnels were built from central to Museum & St James first, opening in 1926, with the western portal from Central to Wynyard via Town Hall completed by 1932. The Western portal then continued and connected Wynyard with the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the same year. Bradfield's original plans to connect the 2 lines and create a city circle Loop wasnt completed until 1956, as the government had run low on cash during the great depression and the outbreak of Word War 2, meaning Bradfield died before seeing his work completed.

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John Bradfield's Original Railway Plans