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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain. Autumn in our street at Castle Hill, north-western Sydney.
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Crimson Princess. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank. Looking back at the Sydney Harbour Bridge Carlingford in Ireland derived its name from Scandinavian origins, from the time of the Viking invasions and settlements.
The area was settled in the mids and, at the time, was an agricultural area on the outskirts of Sydney. Like much of the Hills District, Carlingford was a significant orange-growing area for the city. Pennant Hills Road , then a major arterial road from Parramatta to the northern suburbs, was a major route of transportation for agricultural produce from the area.
When the train line which terminated at Carlingford railway station , then known as Simpson's Railway, was completed in , it too, became a major route for the area. Carlingford Produce, a gardening and agricultural-materials seller located next to the train station, is located in the former train workshops. This office closed in The Carlingford Shopping Square office opened on 1 December and was renamed Carlingford Court in and remains open. A Carlingford North office opened on 1 March The property eventually had many cottages, together with a hospital, an orchard and vegetable gardens.
The land is now the site of the Alan Walker Retirement Village. Land owned by the homes has since been developed for housing, with street names such as Trigg, Marella, Carramar, Buckland and Lisgar reflecting the names of individual houses or Anglican Home Mission Society services. Girls' Home property in the south of the suburb has become, since , Anglicare's Kingsdene Special School for severely to profoundly intellectually disabled children, as well as the American International School.
James Ruse Agricultural High School, established in , is a testament to the agricultural history of Carlingford as well as the rapid pace of urbanisation; which soon made the school, and its large farm, somewhat of an anomaly amongst the s- and s-style houses which dominate the suburb. More recently, in the s, the government policy of urban consolidation has seen the development of high-density units and apartment blocks around the town centre and the train station.
There have also been redevelopments of older houses into medium-density townhouses , and duplex housing. In , the HMS K13 memorial was unveiled, and stands as a prominent feature in Carlingford, passed by thousands of motorists along Pennant Hills Road each day. The Carlingford town centre is located on Pennant Hills Road and comprises a shopping strips and two shopping centres , Carlingford Court and Carlingford Village.
The shopping strip, near Carlingford railway station, includes Carlingford Bowling Club, the only pub in Carlingford. Carlingford Court, managed by GPT, is a typical large suburban shopping centre featuring supermarkets, discount department stores, specialty shops and a Fitness First. The centre underwent major reconstruction in the late s and underwent minor redevelopment after the Myer department store closed on 31 March Carlingford Village is a smaller shopping complex, which has many Asian food outlets.
As with much of Sydney, Carlingford has relatively limited public transport access, which is reflected in the low public transport patronage by commuters. Carlingford railway station is the terminus of the Carlingford Line on the Sydney Trains network.
The Carlingford Line, which opened on 20 April as a private railway, then as a public line on 1 August , [6] is a mostly single-track line. There is currently only one service in the early morning which connects to the city directly, at other times a train-change at Clyde , is necessary to reach other stations, and consequently the service has a low patronage, though it is quite popular during peak hours.
As part of the CityRail Clearways Project , a passing loop was promised to the Carlingford Line with two services per hour all day to become effective in This was however scrapped in the mini-budget. The rail line was closed on 5 January , with a new light rail route being constructed on the site. Because of the limited public transport most residents travel to work by cars.
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