Nambour railway station is located on the North Coast line in

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, Australia. It serves the town of

Nambour Nambour is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Nambour had a population of 11,187 people. Geography Nambour is north of the state capital, Brisbane. The town lies in the sub ...

in the Sunshine Coast Region.

History

On 16 December 1963, the present station building was opened by Minister for Transport Gordon Chalk. On 11 August 1988, a bus station was opened outside the station by Minister for Transport Ivan Gibbs. South of the station lie stabling sidings for electric multiple units. In 2016 a major upgrade to the station commenced.

Services

Nambour is the terminus for

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services from

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with two services daily continuing to

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. To relieve congestion on the single track North Coast line, the rail service is supplemented by a bus service operated by Kangaroo Bus Lines on weekdays to Caboolture as route 649. Nambour is also served by long-distance Traveltrain services; the ''

Spirit of Queensland The Spirit of Queensland is a Queensland Rail long distance passenger rail service. It is operated by a diesel powered Tilt Train that runs five times a week on the North Coast line between Brisbane and Cairns, a distance of 1,681 kilometres ...

'', ''

Spirit of the Outback The Spirit of the Outback is a long-distance passenger rail service in Queensland, Australia, operated by Queensland Rail's Traveltrain division. Route Debuting in November 1993 by combining the former '' Capricornian'' and '' Midlander'' tr ...

'' and the Bundaberg and Rockhamption ''

Tilt Train The Tilt Train is the name for two similar high-speed tilting train services, one electric and the other diesel, operated by Queensland Rail. They run on the North Coast line from Brisbane to Bundaberg and Rockhampton (electric) and Cairns (d ...

s''.

Services by platform

Transport links

Sunbus operate five routes to and from Nambour station: *610: to Sunshine Plaza via Kunda Park *612: to Sunshine Plaza via Bli Bli *630: to Noosa Junction via Doonan *631: to Noosa Junction via Cooroy *636: to

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Greyhound Australia operate services from Nambour station to

and Cairns.Brisbane-Cairns timetable
Greyhound Australia 1 November 2018

References

External links

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