Central Station, Sydney

Sydney Central
Underground, Above ground, Ground level
Station viewed from the western forecourt in 2013
Location	Eddy Avenue, Haymarket, Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	33°52′57″S 151°12′24″E / 33.88250°S 151.20667°E / -33.88250; 151.20667Coordinates: 33°52′57″S 151°12′24″E / 33.88250°S 151.20667°E / -33.88250; 151.20667
Elevation	20 metres (67 ft)
Owned by	RailCorp
Operated by	Sydney Trains
Platforms	27 15 terminating 10 through 2 unused
Tracks	30
Connections	Bus Light rail
Construction
Structure type	Ground: 15 Elevated: 8 Underground: 4 (2 in use, 2 never used)
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Website	Sydney Trains
History
Opened	5 August 1906 (1906-08-05)
Electrified	Yes
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	11.35 million
Services Preceding station   Sydney Trains   Following station Redfern towards Epping or Emu Plains or Richmond T1 North Shore, Northern & Western Line Town Hall towards Hornsby or Berowra Redfern towards Macarthur T2 Airport Line through to City Circle either Museum or Town Hall Green Square towards Macarthur Redfern towards Leppington or Campbelltown T2 Inner West & South Line Redfern towards Lidcombe or Liverpool T3 Bankstown Line through to City Circle either Museum or Town Hall Redfern towards Waterfall or Cronulla T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line Town Hall towards Bondi Junction Redfern towards Olympic Park T7 Olympic Park Line (occasional services only) Terminus Preceding station   NSW TrainLink   Following station Strathfield towards Dungog NSW TrainLink North Coast Terminus Strathfield towards Moree or Armidale NSW TrainLink North Western Strathfield towards Broken Hill or Dubbo NSW TrainLink Western Campbelltown towards Canberra, Griffith or Melbourne NSW TrainLink Southern Wolli Creek towards Bomaderry (Nowra) or Port Kembla South Coast Line Glenfield towards Goulburn Southern Highlands Line Strathfield towards Newcastle Central Coast & Newcastle Line Strathfield towards Bathurst Blue Mountains Line Preceding station   Sydney Metro   Following station Pitt Street towards Chatswood Sydney Metro City and Southwest Waterloo towards Bankstown Preceding station   Great Southern Railway   Following station Lithgow towards East Perth Indian Pacific Terminus

Central Railway Station
Eddy Avenue façade and coach terminus in 2009
Location in Greater Metropolitan Sydney
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Railway station terminus
Architectural style	Federation Free Classical
Address	Eddy Avenue, Haymarket, Sydney, New South Wales
Country	Australia
Coordinates	33°52′57″S 151°12′24″E / 33.88250°S 151.20667°E / -33.88250; 151.20667
Construction started	1901
Completed	1906 (1906)
Opened	5 August 1906 (1906-08-05)
Inaugurated	4 August 1906 (1906-08-04)
Renovated	January 1979, 1915 (1915-1921-1979)
Client	New South Wales Railways
Owner	Government of New South Wales
Height
Tip	85.6 metres (281 ft) AHD
Technical details
Material	Sydney sandstone Carrara marble and terrazzo Australian Red Cedar joinery Acid etched glazing metalwork balustrades
Design and construction
Architect	Walter Liberty Vernon (1901-06)
Architecture firm	New South Wales Government Architect
Developer	Government of New South Wales
Engineer	Henry Deane (Engineer in Chief of the New South Wales Government Railways)
Services engineer	Dr John Bradfield (rail engineering)
Other designers	Fairfax & Roberts (clock tower)
Main contractor	NSW Department of Public Works
Designations	NSW State Heritage Register Register of the National Estate (defunct register)
References

The Central railway station is a railway station located at the southern end of the central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Often abbreviated as Central or Central station, the station is the largest and busiest railway station in New South Wales. It services almost all of the lines on the Sydney Trains network, and is the major terminus for NSW TrainLink services. Actual patronage was 11.35 million passenger movements in 2013.

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.

There have been three terminal stations in Sydney. The original Sydney station was opened on 26 September 1855 in an area known as Cleveland Fields. This station (one wooden platform in a corrugated iron shed), called Sydney Terminal, had Devonshire Street as its northern boundary. It was frequently but unofficially called Redfern station, while at that time the present Redfern station was officially called Eveleigh. It should be noted that these first and second Sydney Terminals were never actually located in Redfern, being to the north of Cleveland Street which is Redfern's northern boundary.

When this station became inadequate for the traffic it carried, a new station was built in 1874 on the same site and also called Sydney Terminal. This was a brick building with two platforms. It grew to 14 platforms before it was replaced by the present-day station to the north of Devonshire Street. The new station was built on a site previously occupied by the Devonshire Street Cemetery, a convent, a female refuge, a police barracks, a parsonage, and a Benevolent Society. The remains exhumed from the cemetery were re-interred at several other Sydney cemeteries including Rookwood and Waverley cemeteries. Bodies were moved to Botany by steam tram motors and flat cars.