Traditional Owners

We acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Sydney basin, the traditional custodians of the land and waterways on which this trail is built.

Development of the Greenway trail 

For information about Greenway supplied by Inner West Council, click here.

The Metropolitan Goods Lines were a series of lines designed to divert goods trains off passenger lines and avoid unnecessary delays for both forms of transport. They spread throughout the Sydney area from 1916 and played a major role in the development of the city and suburbs. Many of the lines are no longer used and have been abandoned, while others have been turned over to light rail. This article focuses on those sections of the line.

The Rozelle/Darling Harbour sections of the Metropolitan goods lines originally ran from Wardell Rd Junction to Darling Harbour passing through the suburbs of Dulwich Hill, Summer Hill, Lewisham, Haberfield, Leichhardt, Annandale, Glebe, Pyrmont as well as Darling Island, then under Pyrmont Bridge Road at Pyrmont Bridge to enter Darling Harbour and continue through to rejoin the Main line near Mortuary Station. In its heyday it was the main route for coal, wheat and other goods into and from Rozelle Goods Yard as well.

The last goods train operated on the line in 2008. Light Rail services on the L1 line began in 2014.

At the Sydney CBD end, the Goods Line is another short section of rail trail on this rail corridor.