Jubilee Park

• Jubilee Park is located in Glebe next to the Anzac Bridge and Harold Park Paceway • Jubilee Park viaduct stretches around 446 metres, which makes it t he largest brick viaduct in the NSW rail system • The construction of the Jubilee Park and Wentworth Park viaducts was the first large-scale project to use bricks • The bricks used for the viaducts were supplied by the State Brickworks from Homebush now known as the Old Homebush Brick Pit • Around three million four hundred thousand bricks were used for the 2 viaducts in Jubilee Park & Wentworth Park. Jubilee Park viaduct alone used more than 2 million • Jubilee Park has been created on the land of swamps and sandflats • There have been a number of murders and deaths in Jubilee Park providing a base for any number of mysteries and ghost stories • In 1996 the Metropolitan Goods Line was redeveloped for use by the Metro Light Rail system, The Metro Light Rail system opened in 1997 & Jubilee Park station was opened on 13 August 2000 • Nearly all the underbridges of the viaduct are made up of a variety of different materials such as brick, steel girders and steel trusses • Jubilee Park is located on Blackwattle Bay • Jubilee park has a street with no name • Jubilee Park viaduct was opened in 1892 & was used until 1922 • Jubilee Park viaduct extends East of Jubilee Park at Victoria Road to The Crescent in Annandale. • Johnstons Creek runs from Stanmore to Jubilee Park • Johnstons Creek was a natural waterway until the 1890s when the channel was straightened and deepened by bricks and concrete to improve storm water sanitation in Sydney