Yass Junction railway station, New South Wales

Yass Junction
Southbound view in May 2013
Location	Faulder Avenue, Yass
Coordinates	34°48′32″S 148°54′55″E / 34.8090°S 148.9154°E / -34.8090; 148.9154
Owned by	RailCorp
Operated by	NSW TrainLink
Line(s)	Main South Yass Tramway
Distance	318.01 kilometres from Central
Platforms	2 side
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Other information
Station code	YAS
History
Opened	3 July 1876
Previous names	Yass
Services
Preceding station   NSW TrainLink   Following station Harden towards Griffith NSW TrainLink Southern Griffith Xplorer Gunning towards Sydney Harden towards Melbourne NSW TrainLink Southern Melbourne XPT

Yass Junction railway station is located on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the town of Yass. The station is not in the town itself but is located approximately four kilometres away near the Hume Highway.

Yass Junction station is located outside of Yass due to the refusal of the Engineer-in-Chief of the New South Wales Railways, John Whitton to build the Main South line through the middle of Yass itself. After a visit on 8 December 1871, to investigate possible routes for the extension of the line from Goulburn, Whitton remarked that "to bring the station to North Yass would increase the length of the line by about three quarters of a mile; that the cost would be considerably more than I had recommended, probably £30,000 or £40,000 for works alone; and that in an engineering point of view [a] divergence to North Yass could not be entertained.

Despite continuous objections, none of Whitton's working plans or other Government surveys were able to find a suitable route for the railway to pass through Yass. Instead, the present route from Gunning to Bowning was chosen which passed four kilometres to the north, with the station opening on 3 July 1876 as Yass.

After a Government Bill was passed "to authorise the construction of tramways along certain streets and highways in the city and suburbs of Sydney and elsewhere", a tramway was built from to Yass Town to convey passengers. The trams departed from a small dock platform behind Platform 2 (the south bound platform). The line opened on 20 April 1892, with Yass station renamed Yass Junction on the same day. On 18 May 1914 the line from Coolalie was duplicated.

Services on the Yass Tramway were suspended on the line on 1 January 1957, started again on 1 December 1957, but again suspended on 18 May 1958. A private bus service continued to carry passengers between the two locations but it also ceased on 18 May 1967. The final services were three steam specials hauled by locomotives 1210 and 3112 on 29 October 1988, before the line was formerly closed on 14 November 1988. In 1990, Yass Town station was leased to the Australian Railway Historical Society.