Which Sydney LGA has the most railway stations?

I have done two seperate blogs regarding the amount train stations in each Local Government Area in Melbourne, and Victoria.

I feel it is right to expand on this for this week.

This time, we head north to the city of Sydney, and figure it out the LGAs that city has, and then find out how many railway stations these LGAs have. Strange Sydney Man is in charge for this week.

How is Sydney defined?

Figuring this out was a fairly difficult task, but I think I figured it out.

According to this official government website, it seems to me that Greater Sydney includes about 33 Councils. Anything located within the ring consisting of Sutherland Shire (the Shire), Campbelltown City, Wollondilly Shire, Blue Mountains City, and Hawksbury City is considered a part of Sydney. The Central Coast is sometimes counted as a part of Sydney, but I am going to exclude thatbecause I don't think the people who live there will be too happy if I say they are a part of that city (and also because the website does not consider it part of Sydney either).

The sheet

I created a Google Sheets spreadsheet which you can find here. 

Some notes:

- The LGA with the most stations is the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, with a whopping twenty stations.

- The LGA with the most NSW Trainlink stations is the City of Blue Mountains, with nineteen stations. This one was not particularly surprising.

- The LGA with the most Sydney Metro stations is The Hills Shire, with six stations.

- LGAs not mentioned here are the Municipality of Hunter's Hill, Lane Cove Council, Mosman Council, and the city of Randwick. None of these areas have any stations within them.

- Pretty interesting to see Camden Council with only one station, considering it is a growth area.

- I will do the rest of New South Wales the other day.

Conclusion

That is it for now! Have a good day!


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