Regents Park railway station is located on the

Main South line The Main South Line, sometimes referred to as part of the South Island Main Trunk Railway, is a railway line that runs north and south from Lyttelton in New Zealand through Christchurch and along the east coast of the South Island to Inverca ...

, 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

Regents Park Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. It occupies of high ground in north-west Inner London, administratively split between the City of Westminster and the Borough of Camden (and historically betwe ...

. The station is heritage-listed in the state heritage register for

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.Regents Park Railway Station Group
NSW Environment & Heritage 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

The original Regents Park station opened on 11 November 1912 when a line was built from

Lidcombe Lidcombe is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lidcombe is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Cumberland Council, with a small industrial part in the north ...

. The station was moved in 1924 when the

was extended to

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in an attempt to reduce overcrowding on the

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. The new station opened on 8 October 1924, built in a characteristic standard design of this period.Regents Park Railway Station Group
NSW Environment & Heritage A booking and parcels office was constructed on the footbridge as part of the 1924 station. This was replaced with the present building in 1945, and later converted into a kiosk. In 2001, a lift was installed from the footbridge down to the platform, and new canopies built connecting to the platform buildings. Immediately south of the station lies Sefton Park Junction with services heading south 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 ...

via the

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and west to

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

via the Main South line. The

Southern Sydney Freight Line The Southern Sydney Freight Line (SSFL) is a freight only railway line in the south-western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The line was built to segregate freight trains from the Sydney Trains network. It forms part of a dedicated freight only c ...

passes beneath the junction. Until it closed in April 1966, Regents Park was the junction for a line to

Potts Hill Potts Hill, a suburb of local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is 21 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is a part of the South-western Sydney South We ...

Reservoir and sidings serving an industrial complex to the north-west of the station.

Platforms & services

Historically Regents Park was served by services from the city and Lidcombe operating to Bankstown and Liverpool on an alternate basis. This changed in the early 2000s, when most services to Liverpool were altered to operate via Bankstown. Today Regents Park is served by T3 Bankstown line services terminating at Lidcombe and three Liverpool – City via Strathfield services on weekdays.

Transport links

Transdev NSW Transdev NSW is a bus operator in the northern, southern and western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, operating on behalf of Transport for NSW. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Australasia. It is a different subsidiary to Transdev John Holland, whi ...

operate two routes via Regents Park station: * 908: Bankstown station to Merrylands station * 909: Bankstown station to Parramatta station Regents Park station is served by one NightRide route: * N50:

to City (Town Hall)

References

External links

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Regents Park station details
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