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Sydney Central Station

Sydney Central
Underground, Above ground, Ground level
Central Station in Sydney (3).jpg
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
Central Railway Station
Central station syd1.jpg
Eddy Avenue façade and coach terminus in 2009
Central railway station, Sydney is located in Sydney
Central railway station, Sydney
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
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
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
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 Redfern, had Devonshire Street as its 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 Redfern. 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.


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