Industrial action spurred by ethnic tensions delayed the works as did an injunction taken out by residents of the exclusive suburb of Woollahra to prevent round the clock tunnelling works, spawning a chain of legal action not completed in the High Court of Australia until 1982 - some three years after the project was completed.
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In 1967 the New South Wales Government awarded the contract for the civil and structural design of the entire line to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority (SMA), the Commonwealth Government agency responsible for the design and construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in south-eastern Australia.
A number of units were fitted with exhaust gas scrubbers for use on Eastern Suburbs Railway construction in the 1970s.
Labor's election promises included making the supply of state housing a top priority, reviving the State Bank which had been under the control of the federal government since 1932 and revitalizing the state's railways including the long delayed Eastern Suburbs line.
He promised to build the Newcastle freeway without a toll, to construct the Eastern Suburbs Railway and to plan for a second crossing of Sydney Harbour.
A few additional services run during peak hours, including a couple of services running directly to and from Central, some continuing along the suburban Eastern Suburbs Line.
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