[Wikipedia] October 2: Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line, Sydney

[Faraaz Damji]

   The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line is a commuter railway
   line in the eastern and southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia that is
   part of Sydney's CityRail rail network.  Along with the South Coast
   Line, an intercity line that uses the Illawarra Line tracks out of
   Sydney, the line was constructed in the 1880s to Wollongong to take
   advantage of agricultural and mining potentials in the Illawarra area.
   In 1926, it became the first railway in New South Wales to run
   electric train services.  Today the railway consists of three connected
   lines: the original Illawarra Line; a branch line from Sutherland to
   Cronulla (the Cronulla Line), which opened on a former tramway
   alignment in 1939; and an underground rail link between the Sydney CBD
   and Bondi Junction, the Eastern Suburbs Line, which opened in 1979.
   The railway currently operates as a relatively high-frequency
   independent line, and has been noted by the New South Wales Government
   as the most reliable line in Sydney.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1535:
   French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed along the St.  Lawrence River
   and reached an Iroquois fort on the island now known as Montreal.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Montreal)

1835:
   Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales, Texas
   encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle of
   Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales)

1928:
   Saint Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei, a worldwide organization
   of lay members of the Roman Catholic Church.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei)

1941:
   World War II: Nazi German forces began Operation Typhoon, an all-out
   offensive against Moscow, starting the three-month long Battle of
   Moscow.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow)

1992:
   In response to a prison riot, military police stormed the Carandiru
   Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, killing at least 100 prisoners.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carandiru_massacre)


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Wiktionary's Word of the day:

   frolic: To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
   (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frolic)


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Wikiquote of the day:

   If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the room
   and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,Or
   moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghostOr Aristotle's skeleton.  Let him
   hang outHis stars on the wall.  He must dwell quietly.  -- Wallace
   Stevens --
   (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens)