City and Suburban Tramways.

Scarce, detailed c.20th map of the existing tramways as of 1914, listing the number of passengers, proposed lines and stops marked in red added.

In 1913 Bradfield was made chief engineer for metropolitan railway construction. Plans for a city railway were already well developed by his predecessors. The following year Bradfield went overseas to investigate new approaches to metropolitan railway construction. Early the following year he reported on the proposed electric lines for the city of Sydney.  Most of his proposals were deferred as a general war economy measure. Bradfield stated, ‘The transit problems of greater Sydney’, that his scheme of suburban electrification would benefit large property owners, new home purchasers and the general public by opening up new land, with quicker transport and cheaper fares. He predicted that Sydney’s population would reach at least 2,226,000 by 1950.