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Sydney, the largest city in Australia, has an extensive network of passenger and freight railways. The passenger network is a hybrid metro-suburban railway with a central underground core running at metro style frequencies, which branches out into a suburban commuter type network. The system also carries freight, and there is a separate network of freight lines, some of which are disused. The network has more in common with rapid transit systems than it does with North American and European commuter networks. This is illustrated by the everyday service, 20 hours a day operation, 15 minute or better frequencies on most of the network, large underground sections, a ridership comparable and even larger than most North American rapid transit systems and relatively small distances between stations. ==Passenger service== (詳細はSydney Trains (launched 1 July 2013). Trains operate for 20 hours a day, and over 1 million weekday passenger journeys are made on 2365 daily services over 2080 km of track and through 306 stations (including interurban lines).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=CityRail timetabling – a look inside the covers. )〕 Suburban services operates along the portions of the main lines from Sydney to the north, west, south and south-west, and also along several dedicated suburban lines. All of these lines are electrified at overhead 1500 V DC, starting in 1926. Most suburban services operate through central Sydney via the underground ''City Circle'' (a horseshoe-shaped line), the Eastern Suburbs underground line, or over the Harbour Bridge. There are long term plans for a new underground line passing beneath Pitt Street to a new harbour crossing (known as ''MetroPitt''), and a long-standing concept for a new underground line that will pass down the western side of the central business district (known as ''MetroWest''). A similar rail line called "Sydney Metro City" is currently in the planning stages with construction expected from 2017-2024 Timetables are published for all lines, and most lines run on headways of 15 minutes in peak periods, half-hourly off-peak and weekends. Headways are closer over shared routes. Although frequencies match metro style operation in the city core, few Sydneysiders use the underground network as a metro, most journeys being commuter trips from suburbs into the central city area. An exception to this is the Eastern Suburbs line which serves the high density inner eastern suburbs and opened in 1979. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Railways in Sydney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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