Main Suburban railway line

Main Suburban railway
Sydney Metropolitan Rail Area with Main Suburban railway highlighted in black
Overview
Owner	Transport Asset Holding Entity
Termini	Redfern Granville
Stations	17
Service
Services	T1 North Shore & Western T2 Inner West & Leppington T9 Northern
Operator(s)	Sydney Trains
History
Opened	1855
Technical
Track length	10 km (6.2 mi)
Number of tracks	4/6
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead 1500 V DC[1]
Operating speed	Track speed varies between 50 km/h (on local) and 100 km/h (on main)[2] 43.3 km/h (network average)[3]
Route map Main Suburban line through Croydon Legend km To Sydney Harbour Bridge or City Circle 0.00 Central 1.30 Redfern Illawarra line to Bomaderry 2.48 Macdonaldtown 3.10 Newtown 4.67 Stanmore 5.50 Petersham 6.25 Lewisham Inner West Light Rail 7.03 Summer Hill 8.38 Ashfield 9.42 Croydon 10.62 Burwood 11.81 Strathfield Main Northern line to Armidale 12.74 Homebush 14.32 Flemington Olympic Park line 16.61 Lidcombe Main Southern line to Albury 18.63 Auburn 20.66 Clyde 21.22 Granville Old Main South line to Cabramatta Main Western line to Dubbo Note: most crossovers not shown This diagram: view talk edit

The Main Suburban railway line is the technical name for the trunk railway line between Redfern railway station and Parramatta railway station in Sydney, Australia, but now generally refers to the section between Redfern and where the Old Main South Line branches off at Granville Junction.^[4] The railway line then continues on as the Main Western line towards the Blue Mountains. This term distinguished this trunk line from the Illawarra Line which branched south from the Illawarra Junction to Wollongong, and later the North Shore line which carried trains north over the Harbour Bridge.