Sydney Trains

Sydney Trains
B set trains at Summer Hill station
Roundel
Overview
Owner	Transport for NSW
Locale	Greater Sydney
Transit type	Suburban rail
Number of lines	8
Number of stations	170
Annual ridership	288.3 million (FY 2022–2023)
Chief executive	Matt Longland
Website	Transport for NSW: Sydney Trains
Operation
Began operation	1 July 2013; 10 years ago (2013-07-01)
Technical
System length	369 km (229 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	1,500 V DC from overhead catenary
System map

Sydney Trains is the operator and brand name of the train network serving the Greater Sydney metropolitan area in New South Wales, Australia. The network is a hybrid urban-suburban rail system with a central underground core that covers 369 km (229 mi) of route length over 813 km (505 mi) of track, with 170 stations on eight lines.^[1]

It has metro-equivalent train frequencies of every three minutes or better in the underground core, 5–10 minutes off-peak at most inner-city and major stations and 15 minutes off-peak at most minor stations. During the weekday peak, train services are more frequent.

The network is managed by Transport for NSW and is part of its Opal ticketing system. In 2018–19, 377.1 million passenger journeys were made on the network, making it the most-used rail network in Australia.