Every night an estimated 2.5 million electric streetlights illuminate the way for pedestrians and motorists around Australia. Key points: Tamworth was the first municipality in Australia with an ...

Tamworth, NSW travel guide ... The historic Goonoo Goonoo Station has ... (on the site where the 1888 steam engines powered the street lighting system). The Tamworth Powerstation Museum features ...

The first city in Australia to use electric street lights wasn't Sydney or Melbourne — it was Tamworth. And it all unfolded in a very Aussie kind of way.

Tamworth became a major coaching station and milling centre in the 1860s. The population increased from about 650 in 1866 to about 3000 in 1876 when it was declared a municipality.