St Marys railway station, Sydney

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St Marys is a railway station on the Western line, Sydney of the CityRail network. It has four tracks, and the tracks are paired by direction down/down/up/up. This means that all trains to the city leave from the same island platform, so if a train happens to travel on the unexpected track, it is merely a matter of walking to the other side of the island platform. All 4 platforms can have trains terminated on and sent back to the origin station. St Marys platforms are accessible by lifts, and is therefore classified as an Easy Access station for wheelchairs.

History

St Marys station opened on 1 May 1862 as South Creek with the construction of the Main Western Linecite web|work=Nswrail.net| title=Main Western railway line|url=http://www.nswrail.net/lines/show.php?name=NSW:main_west| accessdate=27 January| accessyear=2007] . The name was changed to St Marys on 1 August 1885 after the nearby St Mary Magdalene Church. It is the current western extent of quadruplication of the Western Line built as part of the Blue Mountains electrification in the 1950s, although the original proposal was to extend it through to Penrith. St Marys was the junction of the former Ropes Creek branch line, which opened in 1942. This line is now truncated into two storage sidings at the western end of the station.

Platforms/Services

The station is served by three trains per hour for most of the time, with additional trains at peak hours.

Platform 1
*Western line colour>Western Line - all stations and limited stops services to Central, then to Lindfield, Gordon, Hornsby or Berowra via the North Shore line colour>North Shore Line.

Platform 2
*Western line colour>Western Line - all stations and limited stops services to Central, then to Lindfield, Gordon, Hornsby or Berowra via the North Shore Line.

Platform 3
*Western line colour>Western Line - all stations services to Penrith and Emu Plains; peak hour limited stops services to Penrith and Emu Plains.

Platform 4
*Western line colour>Western Line - all stations services to Penrith and Emu Plains; peak hour limited stops services to Penrith and Emu Plains.

Bus Services

St Marys Station Bus Interchange

Westbus
*769 - to Mount Druitt via Willmot and Tregear
*770 - to Mount Druitt via Oxley Park
*771 - to Colyton.
*772 - to Mount Druitt via Erskine Park and St Clair
*773 - to West St Clair.
*781 - to Penrith.
*782 - to Penrith.
*790 - to Penrith.
*835 - Between Penrith and Liverpool.
*N4 - to Mount Druitt.
*N5 - to Erskine Park.NightRide
*N70 - Between Penrith station and Town Hall.

Trackplan

Neighbouring stations

Neighbouring stations

ee also

*Railways in Sydney
*CityRail

Notes and References