Welcome to Central Station
Start your tour at the CountryLink travel centre
on platform 1.
Central Station location No. 11:
Walk around the corner to your left under the Eddy Ave viaduct. The central
arch was originally used by the trams. Stop at the bus terminal end of
the arch.
To your left, the suburban platform buildings are a different colour
sandstone to the lower sections of the Central Station main building (to
your right) which was built from sandstone quarried at Pyrmont. The upper
sections are a different sandstone again.
You will also notice a plaque to your right remembering the soldiers
of World War I. They would travel from here to Darling Harbour where the
ships were loaded. Even today you can still see tracks on some of the
piers still standing at Darling Harbour.
At the time, there were 45,000 railway men and 8,500 of these enlisted.
More than 1,200 were killed. Many of them operated trains in Europe –
either the heavy rail systems or the narrow gauge lines which took them
to the front line.
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