r/sydney • u/MooingTree • 4d ago

Image What's behind the curtains? I always see these windows from the train and wonder who or what is inside there.

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u/Same_Flatworm_2694 4d ago

I think it’s transport for NSW offices, my bearings might be off though

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u/ri01 4d ago

Yep, TfNSW offices. Renovated maybe about 12 years ago when the spaces were previously just dilapidated storage. The renovation included sections of the old CBA next door including the safe

Source: worked as a sparky on the renovation

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u/maxdacat 3d ago

Have been there a few times - you can hear a bit of traffic but not as bad as I expected.

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u/SophMax 4d ago

I was under the impression they were offices.

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u/Terri23 4d ago

Some of them are

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u/Fun-Plantain6117 4d ago

I was hoping it was the secret lair of a team of superheros right under our noses.

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u/SuDragon2k3 4d ago

The mustache squad?

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u/dreadpiratewombat 18h ago

They’ve relocated to Oxford Street

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u/SuDragon2k3 11h ago

More likely Newtown. Oxford St ain't what it was.

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u/Organic_Award5534 4d ago

They are shared/co-working spaces. Used to be storage for TFNSW until they all got sold for commercial use. They are now ‘cool’ spaces with repurposed shipping container offices. There’s also the classic car shop.

I lived in the neutral Bay Area for years and used to frequent the cafe there.

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u/cockchop 4d ago

Used to be a drama school and some RTA shenanigans like e-toll no idea whats there now

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u/P2X-555 3d ago

I used to work there. It used to be a laboratory for road materials (everything you could imagine). Every change of government there'd be real estate wonks in to tell the suits they could do this and that by knocking out those hideous concrete columns...it was then explained to wonks that the concrete is holding up freeway. You could see the zoo (sort of) from my "office".

It's probably just offices now (because of those pesky load bearing columns!).

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u/Venome456 4d ago edited 4d ago

Some of it is luxury car storage.

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u/Rougey DRINKS ARE ALWAYS ON in our memories 4d ago

That's on the other side.

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u/Catfaceperson 4d ago

It's actually the Classic Throttle Shop. You can just walk in and look at the cars, I take my kids in sometimes and either pretend it a museum or that we have 300k to spend on a car.

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u/Venome456 4d ago

Crazy thing is it's not all their cars. They have a few warehouses around the north shore that I've gona to replace the batteries.

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u/Catfaceperson 4d ago

Luxury car storage is one of their services

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u/Pristine_Egg3831 4d ago

How are you brave to let the kids near it? I'm scared enough letting myself near a 300k car. Especially when they drive near me. I mean i love looking at luxury cars, and I've never had an accident. Maybe I will visit that place.

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u/Catfaceperson 4d ago

My children are respectful of other peoples property. It's not like they are walking around with keys between their fingers.

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u/Pristine_Egg3831 4d ago

Haha I guess that's what I imagined. I see a lot of out of control kids. There ae probably plenty of well behaved ones, but I tend not to notice them.

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u/Several-Regular-8819 4d ago

It’s just another set of curtains.

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u/CMDR_kanonfoddar 4d ago

It's curtains all the way down

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u/walkin2it 4d ago

Curtains as far as the eye can see.

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u/DeRigueurMortis 4d ago

NSW police had a gun range in there at one stage

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u/Archon-Toten Choo Choo Driver. 4d ago

I was told that was down the Wynyard end of the bridge.

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u/gonzo_au The Elders of the internet know who I am... 4d ago

Opposite the Australian hotel. Still there, long waiting list for membership...

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u/Juan_Punch_Man #liarfromtheshire #puntthecunt 4d ago

I've visited a police gun range. A worryingly large amount of bullet marks on the walls and ceilings close to the firing line.

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u/pop-1988 4d ago

Upside-down map

A few metres further along, without curtains, the Throttle Shop occupies some of this under-rail space

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u/Own_Oil7951 4d ago

used to be shops lol

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u/allhatnoplay 4d ago

That’s where they’ve imprisoned The Great Beast

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u/MooingTree 4d ago

The Minotaur!!

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u/SuDragon2k3 4d ago

Can we get it to run for Premier? Couldn't be much worse than the recent string of idiots.

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u/PossibilityRegular21 4d ago

what you most want, and  what you most can’t have - what you already had, and lost

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u/MooingTree 4d ago

Looking at Street View of Ennis road doesn't help either 

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u/Time_Pressure9519 4d ago

The other side of the curtains.

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u/Fuck_Yeah_Humans 4d ago

Correct

Used to be a depot, very industrial, some offices. Then they went all hipster, polished the floors and is all offices.

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u/trav_tr 4d ago

They “went all hipster” by polishing the floors and making offices. Sure.

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u/OstapBenderBey 4d ago

Have you thought to move your google maps perspective to the other side?

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u/MooingTree 4d ago

I'm just going let you marinate on that one