Hornsby railway station, Sydney

Hornsby railway station is a railway station at the junction between the North Shore and Main Northern railway lines of the CityRail network in Sydney, Australia. It also serves the commercial and residential area of Hornsby. Confusingly, trains from Hornsby via the Shore can return to Hornsby via the Main, and visa versa. On July 10th 2003, this caused the communications system in a Millennium Train to fail because the train's software could not compute that the origin and destination of the service had the same name.

Clearways Project

Under the Clearways Project, Hornsby is to get a new Platform 5 for use by through northbound trains. Existing Platform 4 then becomes a centre turnback platform for Northern line trains via Strathfield (later Epping Chatswood trains via Thornleigh). The additional platform is required in part for the extra trains that will operate when the Epping to Chatswood line opens.

Accessibility

Hornsby has three lifts connecting the concourse with 1 island platform and 2 side platforms, and thus has Easy Access for wheelchairs.

Transport Links

Shorelink runs a number of services to and from Hornsby railway station:

Route 574 - Hornsby Hospital
Route 587 - Westleigh via Normanhurst
Route 588 - Normanhurst West via Normanhurst
Route 592 - Limited service to Brooklyn and Mooney Mooney
Route 593 - Parklands Road
Route 595 - Mount Colah via Hornsby North
Route 596 - Hornsby Heights
Route 597 - Berowra station via Berowra Heights

Hornsby is also the terminal of NightRide routes N80 and N90, both of which go to Town Hall - N80 via Strathfield, N90 via Chatswood.

Train spotting

Hornsby is one of the best locations in the state of New South Wales for Railfans, because of the large number, large variety of trains including freight trains, and because of the complexity of operation of the points and signals many of which are close enough to be seen from the platforms.

Neighbouring stations

Countrylink North Coast
Strathfield	↔	Hornsby	↔	Gosford
Countrylink North Western
Strathfield	↔	Hornsby	↔	Gosford

Notes

CityRail -- Millennium Train Incident Reports

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