Topic summary
Main Northern railway line

23
North Shore line to Sydney
45
limit of suburban passenger services
Long Island Depot
Former General Gordon service
Mullet Creek Tunnel
Mullet Creek dead end
Vales Point coal unloader
Eraring coal unloader
Newstan colliery
limit of electrification
to Port Waratah
Hanbury Dive
to Kooragang Island coal loaders
Sandgate Cemetery branch
Bloomfield Colliery
Whitburn Colliery
Hunter Valley collieries line
Hunter River Junction
(1st)
Camberwell and Rixs Creek collieries
Mount Owen colliery
Hunter Valley collieries line
Mount Arthur and Drayton collieries
Merriwa line to Ulan and Gulgong
Dartbrook colliery
limit of intercity passenger services
455
580
limit of passenger services
unfinished Guyra–Dorrigo line
unbuilt Glen Innes–Inverell line
792
border
km
The Main Northern railway line, also known as the Great Northern Railway, is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia, running from Strathfield in Sydney to Armidale.
The 1980s saw the line closed progressively north of Armidale; passenger services north of Tamworth were cancelled in 1990 but were reintroduced as far as the former two years later.
The Sydney–Brisbane rail corridor now branches off the Great Northern Railway after Maitland and follows the North Coast line.