Flemington railway station

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Flemington
Flemington railway station 27 August 2017 04.jpg
The station entrance, concourse and platforms in August 2017
General information
LocationThe Crescent, Homebush West
Sydney, New South Wales
Australia
Coordinates 33°51′54″S151°04′12″E / 33.86495556°S 151.0698778°E / -33.86495556; 151.0698778 (Flemington railway station, Sydney)
Owned by Transport Asset Manager of NSW
Operated by Sydney Trains
Line Main Suburban
Distance14.32 km (8.90 mi) from Central
Platforms4 (2 island)
Tracks6
Connections TfNSW B.svg Bus
Construction
Structure typeGround
AccessibleYes
Other information
Status
  • Weekdays:

Staffed: 6am to 7pm

  • Weekends and public holidays:
Staffed: 6am to 7pm
Station code FMG
Website Transport for NSW
History
Opened1884(141 years ago) (1884)
Rebuilt25 May 1924(101 years ago) (1924-05-25)
ElectrifiedYes (from October 1929)
Passengers
2023 [1]
  • 2,691,650 (year)
  • 7,374 (daily) [2] (Sydney Trains, NSW TrainLink)
Services
Preceding station TfNSW T.svg Sydney Trains Following station
Lidcombe
towards Parramatta or Leppington
Leppington & Inner West Line Homebush
towards City Circle
Lidcombe
towards Leppington
Strathfield
towards City Circle
Lidcombe
towards Liverpool
Liverpool & Inner West Line Homebush
towards City Circle
      North Shore & Western Line does not stop here
Former services
Preceding stationFormer servicesFollowing station
Rookwood
towards Bourke
Main Western Line
(1887-1967)
 Homebush
towards Sydney
Pippita
towards Abattoirs
Abattoirs Line
(1911-1995)
Terminus
Location
Flemington railway station

Flemington railway station is a suburban railway station located on the Main Suburban line, serving the Sydney suburb of Homebush West. It is served by Sydney Trains T2 Leppington & Inner West and T3 Liverpool & Inner West Line services.

Contents

History

The former concourse in August 2007 Flemington Railway Station 3.JPG
The former concourse in August 2007

Flemington station opened in 1884. On 25 May 1924, it was relocated further west to its present site when the Main Suburban line was quadrupled from Homebush to Lidcombe. [3] [4]

From 1923 until 1972, extensive cattle yards existed opposite the station to the north. [4] [5] This was redeveloped as the Sydney Markets in 1975. It included railway sidings for produce trains. These have since been decommissioned. When Enfield Yard was closed for redevelopment in the mid-1990s, the sidings became a locomotive changeover point for freight trains. [6]

The suburb of Flemington, south of the station, has long been residential. In 1992, the suburb of Flemington was officially renamed "Homebush West", used as a technical term for the houses north of the station. Due to the change in the official name of the suburb and the importance of the neighbouring Sydney Markets, in 2015 a proposal was raised to rename the station to Sydney Markets. [7]

An upgrade to the station was planned from 2014 and works completed in 2018, resulting in the replacement of the historic concourse with a new one with lift access to the platforms. [8]

To the west of the station is the Flemington Maintenance Depot where the Olympic Park line branches off. Between the station and the Sydney Markets lie two tracks exclusively used by freight trains travelling between the Main North line and the Metropolitan Goods line. [9]

Services

Platforms

PlatformLineStopping patternNotes
1no scheduled services
2no scheduled services
3services to Central & the City Circle [10]
T3
services to Central & the City Circle
(weekday early morning, late night and weekends only)		 [10]
4
T2
services to Parramatta & Leppington [10]
T3
services to Liverpool via Regents Park
(weekday early morning, late night and weekends only)		 [10]

Transit Systems operates one bus route via Flemington station, under contract to Transport for NSW:

Flemington station is served by two NightRide routes:

Description

Flemington railway station consists of two island platforms. The northern one (platforms numbered 1 and 2) is not in regular use, and regular scheduled services only use the southern island platform (numbered 3 and 4). Stairs and lifts connect the platforms to an overhead concourse. The main village commercial centre of Flemington is south of the station, and the concourse descends to street level here via stairs and a lift. To the north of the station is the large market complex of Sydney Markets at the Flemington locality. The concourse is connected to the markets on the north side via a long, elevated walkway which spans across the freight line tracks and former goods sidings and continues into the market complex.

References

  1. ↑ "Train Station Monthly Usage". Open Data. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  2. ↑ This figure is the number of entries and exits of a year combined averaged to a day.
  3. ↑ Flemington Station NSWrail.net
  4. 1 2 Flemington Railway Station Group NSW Environment & Heritage
  5. ↑ "20 Years Ago" Railway Digest October 1992 page 402
  6. ↑ "Flemington" Railway Digest May 1992 page 190
  7. ↑ "What's in a name: Push to rename Flemington train station to Sydney Markets".
  8. ↑ Have your say on major upgrade of Flemington Station Archived 4 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine Transport for NSW 2 December 2014
  9. ↑ Flemington Middle Junction SA Track & Signal
  10. 1 2 3 4 "T2: Inner West & Leppington line timetable". Transport for NSW.
  11. ↑ "Transit Systems route 408". Transport for NSW.
  12. ↑ "N60 Nightride". Transport for NSW.
  13. ↑ "N61 Nightride". Transport for NSW.

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