page_title: Trams in Sydney
section_title: Eastern Suburbs Lines
hierarchical_section_title: Trams in Sydney / Eastern Suburbs Lines
caption_attribution_description: Map of the former tram network of the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia at maximum extent c. 1933.
context_page_description: The Sydney tramway network served the inner suburbs of Sydney, Australia from 1879 until 1961. In its heyday, it was the largest in Australia, the second largest in the Commonwealth of Nations, and one of the largest in the world. The network was heavily worked, with about 1,600 cars in service at any one time at its peak during the 1930s.
  Patronage peaked in 1945 at 405 million passenger journeys. Its maximum street trackage totalled 291 km in 1923.
context_section_description: Circular Quay was the focal terminal point of most services to the eastern suburbs, and allowed easy transfer to ferries. For many years, 27 regular services operated from Circular Quay. A number of full-time services also operated from a secondary terminus at Railway Square.
caption: Eastern Suburbs Lines map
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