Sandown railway line, Sydney

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Sandown Line
Overview
Mode	Former passenger line
Area	Western Sydney
Map colour	Orange
Owner	RailCorp
Design
Stations	4 (all closed)
Connects	formerly Rosehill
1892	Opened
1959	Electrified
c1990	closed to passenger services
Operations
Operator(s)	freight operators
Fleet	formerly 3-car Y-sets
Depot(s)	nil
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The Sandown Line is a short industrial railway line in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The line branches from the Carlingford line at Camelia junction, just north of Rosehill station. It was electrified in 1959. The railway is now used by occasional freight trains only, but when electrified it carried an infrequent electric suburban service to serve the surrounding industrial area, operated by single-deck 3-car trains (marshalled as Y-sets). The line had 3 simple stations: Sandown, Hardies and Goodyear (a platform called Cream of Tartar Works closed prior to electrification). The clousure of Goodyear station preceded the closure of the remaining two. All stations were unattended by staff members. The overhead wires were removed in December 2002.

[edit] See also

• Railways in Sydney
• CityRail
• List of closed Sydney railway stations

[edit] External links

• Pictures from nswrail.net

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