Sydney Light Rail audio guide — L2 and L3

22 narrated places along the line · 8.5 km · the map is free, no time limit

Every place on the map

Each red dot is a place with its own story. The story starts by itself when you reach it — on foot, by bike or by car.

All 22 places in this guide

Here is every place the guide tells you about, with the first line of its story:

1. The Rocks — Sydney's oldest neighbourhood and the place where European Australia began.
2. Circular Quay — Circular Quay is the historic ferry terminal where Sydney was born — Captain Arthur Phillip and his First Fleet anchored here in 1788.
3. Customs House — Customs House is one of Sydney's most beautiful sandstone buildings, completed in 1845 to manage the colony's booming shipping trade.
4. Four Seasons — The Four Seasons is a sleek, modern luxury tower — but it stands on the slope early Sydney called Hangman's Hill, beside the site of Sydney's old gaol.
5. Sydney Exchange — The historic heart of Australian commerce.
6. Martin Place & Matrix Fountain — The Matrix Fountain in Martin Place is the very location used in the 1999 science-fiction blockbuster The Matrix — the exact spot where Neo is distracted by the Woman in the Red Dress during his training simulation with…
7. Strand Arcade — It opened on the first of April, 1892 — the fifth and last of the great Victorian arcades built in Sydney, and the only one still standing as it was built.
8. Queen Victoria Building — The Queen Victoria Building, known as the QVB, is a magnificent Romanesque-style building completed in 1898 that occupies an entire city block.
9. Sydney Town Hall — Sydney Town Hall is the grand civic heart of the city, completed in 1889.
10. St Andrew's Cathedral — St Andrew's Cathedral is Australia's oldest cathedral — Anglican, consecrated in 1868, with twin towers in English Gothic.
11. Chinatown — Sydney's Chinatown has been the beating heart of the city's Chinese community for over one hundred and fifty years.
12. Thai Town — Sydney's Thai Town is one of the most authentic clusters of Thai restaurants and grocery stores outside Thailand.
13. Korean Town — Sydney's Korean Town is a compact strip centred on Pitt Street around Liverpool Street, just steps from Chinatown.
14. Central Station — This is Central Station Sydney's largest railway terminal, opened in 1906.
15. Centennial Park — Centennial Park is Sydney's grandest public park, and one of the great urban green spaces of the world.
16. Surry Hills — Surry Hills is Sydney's most creative inner-city suburb, and a neighbourhood that has reinvented itself dramatically over the last century.
17. Crown Street, Surry Hills — Crown Street is the spine of Surry Hills — Sydney's most fashionable inner-city neighbourhood.
18. Randwick — Randwick is a bustling suburb that sits right between the green expanse of Centennial Park and the ocean beaches.
19. Captain Cook Statue — The Captain Cook statue on this corner honours the British explorer who charted the East Coast of Australia in 1770.
20. Moore Park — Moore Park is the great green break between the city and the eastern suburbs — a hundred and fifteen hectares that began as common land set aside by Governor Macquarie and became a public park in 1866, named after Charles…
21. Fox Studios & Equestrian Centre — Fox Studios stands on what was, for more than a century, the Sydney Showground.
22. Randwick Hospital Campus — The Randwick Hospital Campus is one of Australia's most vital medical hubs.

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By Andrew Sorokin, Sydney guide since 2006.