Lost Railways:
Widemere Quarry Line
Fairfield to Widemere Quarry, Prospect Hill. Length: 8.3 km. Opened October 1925; closed 2nd June, 1945.A 61 cm (2 feet) gauge privately owned branch line to a quarry operated by the Sydney and Suburban Blue Metal Co. running from the Main Southern Line at Fairfield to the company s quarry on the southern side of Prospect Hill. The tracks commenced at the Fairfield station goods yard and followed a route alongside public streets including Court Road, The Horsley Drive to Smithfield, then alongside Dublin, Cordeaux and Hassall Streets and Widemere Road, crossing Prospect Creek over a timber-framed trestle viaduct. The trains running down the main street of Smithfield were a feature of the town s daily life.