St Peters Station,Platforms/Services,Transport Links,
St Peters Station
St Peters railway station is part of the CityRail network. Straddling the border of the Sydney suburbs of St Peters and Newtown, it services a residential and industrial area. St Peters station opened in 1884 with the construction of the Illawarra railway line to Hurstville. The station is located in a cutting, and immediately to the east of the station the tracks pass beneath the Princes Highway. The station has two island platforms each serving two tracks, of which only the western one (platforms 1 and 2) is regularly used as a stopping point for passenger trains. To the west of the station lies an incomplete island platform partially built as a plan to expand the tracks between Sydenham and Erskineville to six but it was never completed and has no tracks. The original platform buildings on platforms 1/2 were demolished in the early 1990s and replaced with modern shelters. This station does not have easy access for wheelchairs. The Clearways Project previously envsiaged that St Peters would have six tracks, with stopping trains serving only a newly built western-most island platform, however this project was cancelled in November 2008.
Platforms/Services
Currently only Bankstown Line trains service St Peters station. Four trains per hour operate during weekday daytime periods, 2 trains per hour at other times. Some trains on the Illawarra Line stopped at St Peters, prior to the construction of the Eastern Suburbs Railway and it was also serviced by East Hills Line trains until circa 1990.
Platform 1:
Bankstown Line - all stations services around the City Circle (anticlockwise: via Museum).
Platform 2:
Bankstown Line - all stations services to Lidcombe or Liverpool via Bankstown & Sydenham.
Platform 3:
Not currently in use - used only by trains during trackwork or in emergencies.
Platform 4:
Not currently in use - used only by trains during trackwork or in emergencies.
Transport Links
Sydney Buses runs three routes via St Peters station:
Route 308 - Between Gresham Street and Marrickville Metro Shopping Centre.
Route 370 - Between Coogee and Leichhardt Marketplace.
Route 422 - Between Circular Quay and Tempe.
