Capital City Stations:
Sydney

Central Station, Sydney, NSW

The first terminal station in Sydney was built in 1855 on a site known as the Cleveland Paddocks, located between Devonshire and Cleveland Streets, midway between today's Central and Redfern stations. It also incorporated a goods train line that passed under the George Street road overbridge at Railway Square in what was known as 'The Dive'.

Milsons Point, NSW

Milsons Point Railway Station was constructed between 1929 and 1932 as part of the northern approaches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The station was officially opened as part of the larger bridge opening celebrations to roadway, railway and pedestrian traffic. Until then, the North Shore Line finished on the shores of Lavender Bay on the site of Luna Park, where a ferry took passengers across the harbor to the City of Sydney. The original line remains as a branch line from near Waverton station, and is used today for storing suburban trains.

Wolli Creek, NSW

Building a station where two lines cross but on diffrent levels gave the designers of Wolli Creek Station the opportunity to create something interesting visually, but they blew it by coming up with something that looks bitty and unfinished. Wolli Creek station was built as part of the Airport line opening on 21 May 2000. The station is located on a former industrial site and siding. Since the station's opening, the suburb has been significantly redeveloped with high density housing.

Sydney Olympic Park, NSW

Olympic Park station is the only station on the Sydney Olympic Park railway line, originally built as the Abattoirs Branch line to serve the state abattoirs and associated sale yards located in the area that is now Sydney Olympic Park. Larged crowds can pass through the station quickly and safely, thanks to its critically acclaimed design in which passengers join a train from one platform, while incoming passengers alight onto another platform on the other side of the train.

Ben Lomond, NSW

The highest town in northern NSW, Ben Lomond is home to the longest hand cut railway cutting in Australia, the highest passenger railway station in the southern hemisphere (at the time of the construction of the railway), and a scattering of old and historical relics of times past. The railway station is also significant as the highest railway station in NSW (1,363m) and for its important historical role in the economic development and community life of Ben Lomond and surrounding districts.

Junee, NSW

The heritage-listed Junee railway station, located on the Main South line in New South Wales,serves the town of Junee in the Junee Shire. Junee is served by two daily NSW TrainLink XPT services in each direction operating between Sydney and Melbourne, and a twice weekly NSW TrainLink Xplorer between Griffith and Sydney split from Canberrra services at Goulburn. The Junee Roundshouse is now a railway museum.

Albury, NSW

Albury-Wodonga is a broad settlement incorporating the twin Australian cities of Albury and Wodonga, built around where the Hume Highway cross the Murray River. Albury Railway Station opened in 1881 with the arrival of the main line from Sydney. Two years later, the Victorian Irish broad gauge was built across the Murray River. At last, a rail connection was made between Australia's largest two cities, Sydney and Melbourne, creating the famous break of gauge on the New South Wales/Victoria border.

Werris Creek, NSW

The small New South Wales town of Werris Creek, near Tamworth and north of Quirindi, is recognised as the first railway town in Australia. For approximately 70 years Werris Creek was the largest railway centre in northern New South Wales, the depot alone employing 800 people. From the 1970s, the railway began to decline, but it still remains an important part of the network, with Pacific National still using the depot.

Cootamundra West, NSW

When approaching the New South Wales town of Cootamundra from Wallanbeen, it is easy to miss this wonderful, abandoned heritage-listed railway station located on the outskirts of town beside the Olympic Highway. The heritage-listed former railway complex on the Lake Cargelligo line at Cootamundra, was abandoned as a station because of the change of proposed route for the main southern line.

Tenterfield, NSW

The old Tenterfield Railway Station hasn't seen rail traffic for a number of years, but still attracts visitors interested in railway history, now that it is a railway museum. 18km from the NSW/Qld border, the station was the last on the Great Northern Railway before reaching the border and Wallangarra station, which is dissected by it. The museum has an interesting collection of rolling stock and railway memorabilia.

Armidale, NSW

Armidale railway precinct is located on the Main North line, which runs from Sydney and extends as far as Wallangarra on the Queensland border. The Main North Line (formerly known as the Great Northern Railway) runs through the Central Coast, Hunter and New England regions. The line was the original main line between Sydney and Brisbane, however this required a change of gauge at Wallangarra. The line is now closed north of Armidale.

Boorowa, NSW

Boorowa is a farming village in the Hilltops Region in the south west slopes of New South Wales. It is located in a valley 340 kilometres southwest of Sydney around 490 metres above sea-level. The town is located on the Boorowa River, a tributary of the Lachlan River. The soil in the area is rich volcanic soil washed down over millennia from an extinct volcano known as Mount Canemumbola.

Gerogery, NSW

The otherwise insignificant railway station at Gerogery, in the Riverina district of New South Wales, enjoyed its solitary day of fame on 6th September 1981 when the first test run of NSW Government Railways’ XPT Train set a new Australian speed record of 183km/h a short way from the station down the main southern (Sydney to Albury) ralway line.

Hawkesbury River, NSW

Hawkesbury River is the name of the railway station at Brooklyn, on the Hawkesbury River. The station is on the Main Northern railway line, which is served by the Central Coast and Newcastle Line. Though the name of Brooklyn has been gazetted for the town here three years earlier, the station's name seems to have been chosen because it was built primarily to service the construction works of the Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, located just north of the town of Brooklyn. The bridge was the final link in the Eastern seaboard rail network and was a major engineering feat at the time of its construction.