St James railway station, Sydney
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St James
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Elizabeth Street entrance in June 2011
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| Location | Elizabeth Street, Sydney | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°52′13″S 151°12′43″E / 33.8702°S 151.2120°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | RailCorp | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Sydney Trains | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | City Circle | |||||||||||||||
| Distance | 4.40 kilometres from Central | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (1 island) | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed | |||||||||||||||
| Station code | STJ | |||||||||||||||
| Website | Sydney Trains | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 20 December 1926 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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St James railway station is located on the City Circle, at the northern end of Hyde Park in the Sydney central business district. It is served by Sydney Trains T2 Airport, Inner West & South and T3 Bankstown line services. It is named after the nearby St James' Church.
Part of the Bradfield Plan, St James station was originally intended to be a major interchange with the Eastern Suburbs line on Sydney's underground rail system. Plans for the construction of St James included railway lines in four directions, but the original plan was never completed due to disagreements over the routes. Four platforms were completed, but the two inner platforms, intended to support Bradfield's proposed eastern and western suburbs lines, were never put into service. When the Eastern Suburbs line was eventually built it was done so via a different route via Town Hall.
In the 1990s, the two island platforms were connected by filling in the track space between the two inner platforms, resulting in the single, large island platform seen today.
The station itself was designed by New South Wales Government Architect George McRae, but not completed until after his death. An example of Inter-War Stripped Classical architecture influenced by Art Deco. One distinctive feature of the station is a neon sign from the late 1930s advertising Chateau Tanunda Brandy installed by Tucker, Lingard & Co, located at the northern entrance on Elizabeth Street.
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