Every Sydney Station

The west of the station is quieter: some businesses, fields and low-density housing beyond.

You can tell there's plenty of money here. Unfortunately patronage is quite low given the infrequent service that only goes to Campbelltown. I can see this becoming a key station if the service were better.

To the east is the town centre, a very popular shopping and dining precinct. The high street has a great collection of old shopfronts that are still in use, a cinema and supermarkets. A few arcades and laneways lead off the high street, connecting to more shops and car parks. (4/5)

The southbound platform has a larger station building also with a waiting room, amenities and nice landscaping. Most of it and the other buildings on the platform appear to be disused.

The waiting room serves as another exit, with a door through to the station's car park and a bus stop (3/5)

The Sydney-bound platform has a single building with an office, waiting room and amenities. There's no electronic departure screens at this station, it looks like the old wooden one is still in use!

Further down the platform is a grassy area with trees and an additional exit to the street (2/5)

BOWRAL, 136km from Central, is a charming station serving a surprisingly bustling town with a popular high street. It has two platforms with a collection of heritage buildings and pleasant landscaping. These are accessed from a road bridge with recently-added glass lifts. (1/5)

I'm actually finding myself get excited for high speed rail!

Copenhagen ticket machine

Travelling across Europe to cities with better transit than Sydney shows how contactless is best for ticketing. I don't want to have to study a dozen different combinations of zones & discounts to figure out what ticket is best, or worse, install an app. The system should figure that out for me!

Southeast corner of the facade of Adelaide Railway Station, showing the text "Railway Station" on two different levels, with some Skycity advertising in between

The walkway towards platforms 5 to 9 of Adelaide Station

Southern side of the station interior, showing three advertising screens and the mobility aid size self check area. On the floor is a U-turn arrow with the text "Manoeuvre a 180 degree turn in area 2070 mm x 1540 mm"

Platforms 2 and 3 at Adelaide station. A 4000 class EMU is on platform 2, with a 3000 class hybrid DMU on platform 3. You can tell it's hybrid because of the eye-searingly green window frames.

ADELAIDE is the central hub of the Adelaide Metro rail network. Perched between the northern edge of the CBD and the River Torrens, it has 9 terminus platforms. (1/11)

the current official Adelaide Metro rail network map, showing all of Adelaide's train stations and tram stops.

This project will document one man’s quest to find, and photograph, all of Adelaide’s 89 railway stations. (1/5)

GADIGAL, 17,000km from Central, is a new underground station wait hang on how did I get here?

Wellington is a nicer capital too

To the south is residential area, with a mix of detached and townhouses.

To the north is the town centre on the Old Hume Hwy, a collection of heritage buildings and cute cafes. Although the life of the town seems to have been taken by a shopping centre about 1km away.

With plenty of old charm, inside there is a waiting room, ticket office and amenities. Much of the building, including the second storey, don't appear open to the public.

There's a small weatherboard shelter on the southbound platform, but otherwise it's relatively bare. (2/3)

MITTAGONG, 132km from Central, is a larger station that serves a town centres with a strip of shops and some low/medium density housing. Its two platforms are accessed by a recently upgraded footbridge, with new glass and concrete lift towers. It features a two-storey heritage station building (1/3)

To the east is forest, there's no exit to this side. To the west are houses and an old, closed shop.

The station is down a short driveway which is lined with several community gardens. Amongst the trees there's a pergola with a mismatch of yard furniture - is this someone's backyard?

YERRINBOOL, 116km from Central, is a small rural station serving a few streets of houses. It has two platforms with small steel shelters on each and a disused weatherboard station building, and a pedestrian level crossing Despite being quiet, someone is taking great care of the gardens. (1/2)

Parramatta Light Rail stage 2 now chopped into two pieces. Stage 2a will stop at the top of Wentworth Point. Stage 2b - the most important bit that connects to metro at Olympic Park - pushed out into the indeterminate future.

Can't lie, it's quite disappointing.

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Graphic showing what's coming to Concord West

1300 homes next to Concord West station are up for consultation. Make a submission in favour by Monday: www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projec...

Nuts this is the lead story on the so-called national paper for business, and not tucked in local rag next to a story about a school's bake sale.

As always, it's the wealthiest parts of the country that get the media coverage to push back on any supply of new housing.

Rose Bay, median house price $5.1 million.

And the vibes have never been better 🍻

I think they've given up on that

The Bays and Five Dock both ripe for massive towers

A metro line with just one CBD station, that is also the terminus, and also an interchange with practically every other line, sure is going to be something

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I do wonder why the little de-mountable office is staffed, considering they don't sell tickets anymore. There's no other amenities here.

The station is located in the centre of town. To the west is the local supermarket and a handful of shops. To the east is an old country pub.

BARGO, 103km from Central, is a small, quiet station serving some shops and low-density housing. It has two platforms with an annoying ramp bridge that winds over itself.

The northbound platform has a small shelter, while the southbound has the saddest station building I've seen (1/2)

I really don't understand how one can be (rightly) upset at the loss of units, but at the same time say a taller building is a bad idea.

Looking at some old listings it has 34sqm 1 bed units, way less than the 50sqm required now.

If this building burnt down tomorrow, it wouldn't be allowed to be rebuilt with the number of units it has.