Petersham Station

History

Platforms/Service

Transport Link

Petersham Station

Petersham railway station is on the Inner West Line of the CityRail network. It is located in the suburb of Petersham in Sydney, New South Wales. It receives the Inner West line services (4 services an hour on weekdays and 2 on weekends), which operate on the 'local' pair of tracks (the southernmost pair). A single island platform is provided on the local tracks. Petersham train station is frequently used by more than 600 students from both Fort Street High school and Leichhardt High School, especially around 8:00am (when school starts) and 3:15pm (when school ends).[citation needed]

History

Petersham station opened in 1857. The Main Suburban Railway Line through Petersham was quadruplicated in 1892, and an island platform was built to serve both 'fast' and 'slow' pairs of tracks. The line was sextuplicated through Petersham in 1927 in association with electrification works and the island platform serving the old 'fast' pair of tracks (to become the 'Up' and 'Down Suburban' tracks) was demolished. An ornate station building stands to the north of the tracks, but is no longer used as part of the station.

Platforms/Service

Platform 1:

Inner West Line - all stations services to Central and the City Circle (clockwise).

Platform 2:

Inner West Line - all stations services to Lidcombe and Liverpool (Lidcombe trains proceeding via the Bankstown Line.)

Transport Link

Sydney Buses runs two routes via Petersham station:

Route 412 - Between King Street Wharf and Campsie station.

Route 445 - Between Balmain Wharf and Canterbury station.

NightRide runs one route via Petersham station:

Route N50 - Between Liverpool and City(Town Hall).