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Central railway station, Sydney

Central is a heritage-listed railway station located in the centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station is Australia's largest and second busiest railway station in Australia and serves as a major transport interchange for NSW TrainLink inter-city rail services, Sydney Trains commuter rail services, Sydney light rail services, bus services, and private coach transport services. The station is also known as Sydney Terminal (Platforms 1 to 12). The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[3] It recorded 85.4 million passenger movements in 2018 and serves over 250,000 people daily.

"Sydney railway station" redirects here. For other uses, see Sydney railway station (disambiguation).

Central

20 metres (66 ft)

26

30

Ground & underground

Yes

Staffed (24 hours, 7 days/week)

CEN

5 August 1906 (1906-08-05)

June 1926

  • 45,068,020 (year)
  • 123,474 (daily)[1]

Completed

1906 (1906)

4 August 1906 (1906-08-04)

1915, March 1921, 1955, 1964, June 1979 (1915, March 1921, 1955, 1964, June 1979)

£561,000, equivalent to approximately A$94,600,000 in 2022

75 metres

85.6 metres (281 ft) AHD

17

Walter Liberty Vernon (1901–1906)

Henry Deane (Engineer in Chief of the New South Wales Government Railways)

John Bradfield (rail engineering)

Fairfax & Roberts (clock tower)

Sydney Terminal and Central Railway Stations Group; Central Railway; Central Station; Underbridges

State heritage (complex / group)

2 April 1999

1255

Railway Platform/ Station

Transport – Rail

Central station occupies a large city block separating Haymarket, Surry Hills and the central business district, bounded by Railway Square and Pitt Street in the west, Eddy Avenue in the north, Elizabeth Street in the east and the Devonshire Street Tunnel in the south. Parts of the station and marshalling yards extend as far south as Cleveland Street, and are located on the site of the former Devonshire Street Cemetery.

operates services to Orange[53]

Australia Wide Coaches

operates services to Melbourne and Adelaide via Melbourne[54][55]

Firefly Express

operates services to Brisbane, Byron Bay, Canberra and Melbourne[56]

Greyhound Australia

operates services to Canberra[57]

Murrays

operates services to Fingal Bay via Nelson Bay[58]

Port Stephens Coaches

operates services to Brisbane and Eden[59][60][61]

Premier Motor Service

Train controllers desk, (AA15), third floor Sydney terminus

Doors linking train controllers offices, (AD07), third floor Sydney terminus

[3]

Architecture of Sydney

Light rail in Sydney

Regent Street railway station

Rail transport in New South Wales

Trams in Sydney

. 2007.

"Central Station"

Attraction Homepage (2007). .

"Central Station"

McKillop, Robert; Ellsmore, Donald; Oakes, John (2008). A Century of Central. . ISBN 978-0-9757870-6-9.

Australian Railway Historical Society

Lee, Douglas Bennett; Soriano, Tino (2002). World's Great Train Journeys. . ISBN 0-7922-8028-8.

National Geographic

at transportnsw.info (Archived 8 October 2019)

Central Station

Photographs from NSW Records

Dunn, Mark (2008). . Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 9 October 2015. [CC-By-SA]

"Central Railway Station"