Hurstville railway station
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Hurstville railway station is located on the Illawarra line, serving the Georges River Council suburb of Hurstville. It is served by Sydney Trains' T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line services and NSW TrainLink's South Coast Line services.
History
Hurstville station opened on 15 October 1884 on the terminus of the Illawarra railway line from Redfern. On 26 December 1885, the line was extended to Sutherland.[1] The station initially had two side platforms and two through running lines. When the line was duplicated in 1925, the station was rebuilt with two island platforms, with the southern platform serving the Illawarra main line and the northern platform serving the Illawarra Local (IL) line.
The Illawarra Local pair of tracks end at Hurstville, with the up track continuing a little further to the King Georges Rd underpass. Both tracks merge onto the Illawarra mainline. There are also three sidings branching off the Up Illawarra Local, which are now unused with some track lifted.[2][3]
In 1920, five people were killed when two trains collided while one was shunting at the station.[4]
In 1965, the air rights above the platforms were covered by the Hurstville Super Centre shopping centre, one of the first suburban stations in Sydney to receive such treatment of its overhead airspace.
The original station buildings survived underneath until demolished during refurbishment in the early 1990s. Prior to September 1998, the station received an easy access upgrade which included lifts to each platform.
The centre was refurbished in 2008 and rebranded Hurstville Central.[5]
There have previously been plans to build several residential towers above the station[6] but these plans have been shelved over concerns about the integrity of overhead supports in the event of a derailment.[7]
In late 2019, as part of the Transport for NSW's More Trains More Services program, a crossover was proposed to be built east of the station, to allow Hurstville to Bondi Junction all station services to swap operation from the Illawarra Local tracks to the Illawarra Main tracks and utilise platforms 3 & 4 instead of 1 & 2. The crossover would optimise the capacity of T4 and South Coast Line services along the Illawarra railway line corridor.[8] Construction began in 2020 and it was commissioned and brought into service in February 2024, with final works completed in June 2024.[9]
Platforms and services
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Transport links
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Transit Systems operates four bus routes via Hurstville station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
- 410 to Marsfield[10]
- 490: to Drummoyne[11]
- 491: to Five Dock[12]
- M91 to Parramatta station via Bankstown station[13]
U-Go Mobility operates sixteen bus routes via Hurstville station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
- 450: to Strathfield station via Roselands Shopping Centre[14]
- 452: Beverly Hills station to Rockdale station[15]
- 455: Kingsgrove to Rockdale Plaza[16]
- 940: to Bankstown station via Riverwood[17]
- 941: to Bankstown station via Roselands Shopping Centre[18]
- 943: to Lugarno[19]
- 945: to Bankstown station via Riverwood[20]
- 947: to Kogarah station via Ramsgate[21]
- 953: to Kyle Bay, Connells Point & South Hurstville[22]
- 954: to Hurstville Grove[23]
- 955: to Mortdale via Oatley[24]
- 958: to Rockdale Plaza via Carss Park[25]
- 959: to Bald Face[26]
- 970: to Westfield Miranda via Sylvania Heights[27]
- 971: to South Cronulla via Sylvania & Miranda[28]
Hurstville railway station is served by two NightRide routes:
- N10: Sutherland station to Town Hall station[29]
- N11: Cronulla station to Town Hall station[30]
Trackplan
References
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- ↑ Hurstville Station NSWrail.net
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- ↑ Hurstville Train disaster Sydney Morning Herald 26 August 1920 page 8
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- ↑ On track – railway views drawing developers' gaze Sydney Morning Herald 13 September 2003
- ↑ Safety risk stops rail apartments Sydney Morning Herald 4 December 2004
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External links
- Hurstville station details Transport for New South Wales
- Hurstville Station Public Transport Map Transport for NSW