Stanmore railway station is a railway station located on the Inner West Line of the CityRail

CityRail

CityRail is an operating brand of RailCorp, a corporation owned by the state government of New South Wales, Australia. It is responsible for providing commuter rail services, and some coach services, in and around Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, the three largest cities of New South Wales. It is...

 network in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It serves the inner-western suburb of Stanmore

Stanmore, New South Wales

Stanmore is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Stanmore is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Marrickville Council.-History:...

. Stanmore has an average of 5540 weekday commuters.

The Inner West line uses the two southernmost tracks of the six tracks passing through the station. Stanmore has a side platforms and an island platform accessed by a subway, with one face against the Down Suburban track where trains rarely stop.

History

A station opened at Stanmore in 1878. The Main Suburban railway line through Stanmore was quadruplicated in 1892, and sextuplicated in 1927 in association with electrification works. The island platform between the 'Down Suburban' and 'Up Local' tracks was the original station house and entrance, this became the current island platform on completion of quadruplication works in 1892.

Platforms and services

The station is served by two to four trains per hour each way, with additional trains during weekday peak hours. During off-peak hours two of these four train services towards Regents Park terminate in Ashfield

Ashfield railway station

Ashfield railway station is a railway station serving the Ashfield area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Maryhill Line 4 km north of Glasgow Queen Street, a short distance west of Cowlairs North Junction. It has two side platforms...

.

Transport links

Sydney Buses runs one route via Stanmore station:

• Route 412 - between King Street Wharf
  King Street Wharf
  King Street Wharf covering approximately five hectares, is a former maritime industrial area on the eastern shore of Darling Harbour, an inlet of Sydney Harbour, Australia, that has been redeveloped into a mixed use tourism, commercial, residential and maritime development as part of the extensive...
  
   and Campsie station

NightRide

NightRide

NightRide is a network of bus routes in operation between midnight and 5.00 am in Sydney, Australia. The eleven routes are run by private bus operators and allow for a nightly shutdown of the CityRail commuter rail network. Established by the New South Wales Ministry of Transport and monitored by...

 runs one route via Stanmore station:

• Route N50 - between Liverpool
  Liverpool, New South Wales
  Liverpool is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Liverpool is located 32 km south-west of the Sydney central business district, and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of Liverpool...
  
  and City (Town Hall)

Neighbouring stations