Punchbowl railway station is located on the
Bankstown line
The Bankstown Line (numbered T3, coloured orange) is a commuter rail line operated by Sydney Trains in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It serves Canterbury-Bankstown and parts of the Inner West and Western Sydney. The Bankstown railway li ...
, serving the
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...
suburb of
Punchbowl. It is served by
Sydney Trains
Sydney Trains is the operator of the suburban passenger rail network serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The network is a hybrid urban- suburban rail system with a central underground core that covers over of track and 170 ...
T3 Bankstown line services.
History
Punchbowl station opened on 14 April 1909, when the
Bankstown line
The Bankstown Line (numbered T3, coloured orange) is a commuter rail line operated by Sydney Trains in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It serves Canterbury-Bankstown and parts of the Inner West and Western Sydney. The Bankstown railway li ...
was extended from
Belmore to
Bankstown
Bankstown is a suburb south west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is located in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, hav ...
.
Punchbowl Railway Station Group
NSW Environment & Heritage
Until it closed in the early 1990s, the Punchbowl Maintenance Depot
The Punchbowl Maintenance Depot was a train storage and maintenance depot in the south-western Sydney suburb of Punchbowl.
The depot opened in 1923 and was one of four electric train depots built under the Bradfield electrification plan, the ...
lay to the north-west of the station.
Platforms and services
References
External links
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Punchbowl station details
Transport for New South Wales
Punchbowl Metro station
Sydney Metro
City of Canterbury-Bankstown
Railway stations in Sydney
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1909
Bankstown railway line
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