Bondi Junction Railway Station - History

History

As a long-standing major commercial area in Sydney's east, a railway line had long been considered to Bondi Junction. The suburb was variously proposed to been the intermediate or the ultimate terminus of an Eastern Suburbs Railway since 1916. In 1967 tenders were awarded for the actual construction of the Eastern Suburbs Railway as far as Bondi Junction. Construction began shortly thereafter.

Read more about this topic:  Bondi Junction Railway Station

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    “There is no history of how bad became better.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)