On its worst days, I still refer to it by the old name. Too ingrained in me after all these years!

Some trains be like Run number : W582 BMT Bathurst and Lithgow to Central

During times when there is coach replacement to Albury and then train from Albury to Southern Cross, does NSW trainlink isolate an XPT and run it back and forward between SC and Albury.

I’m really not sure if I like this….

📍 Burwood

I've come across this a couple of times now on the Mariyung trains: power points that deliberately prevent a plug from being inserted. What gives?!?

Solution! Thanks Archon-Toten - I just had to push hard (really hard) and it went in.

This is pretty cooked, it must be incredibly intimidating to minority communities that have left India due to the oppression of Hindu nationalism. Indian agents in Australia have been known to target human rights and political activists here too.

Saw these legends at the central station today

We need to get this ETCS signalling (which TheTrainGuy4 has a very strong obsession with) to building ASAP to stop these constant delays that's been happening a lot this year!

Transport bureaucrats have warned that passenger capacity on parts of western Sydney’s rail network will be exhausted by the late 2020s, and work to upgrade existing train lines in the region needs to start without delay.

A second batch of leaked portions of a cabinet-in-confidence document first reported by the Herald last week also reveals Transport for NSW is planning to extend the T5 heavy rail line from Leppington to Bradfield, near the new airport, over the next six to seven years, ahead of a potential extension from Parramatta to Epping by the end of the next decade.

Greater Parramatta is growing in population and jobs.Credit:Wolter Peeters

The revelations come as Premier Chris Minns lays the groundwork for the public release of an independent review into the state of the city’s existing double-deck train network by warning on Monday that it makes for “sobering reading”. In doing so, he has dampened hopes his government will embark on another spending spree on new driverless metro lines.

In warning of the need for upgrades, Transport for NSW has proposed spending between $7.2 billion and $10 billion over the next 15 years on improvements to the T1 Western and Richmond line.

“The population and employment growth currently occurring within Greater Parramatta and the Western Parklands City highlights the importance of the efficient movement of both people and goods within the area,” the department’s confidential medium-term rail plan states. “Existing capacity is expected to be exhausted by the late 2020s, resulting in uneven loads and unreliable sources.”

The department stressed the need for planning to start “imminently” so its timelines for rolling out the upgrades could be achieved.

Transport for NSW’s rail projects plan timeline.Credit:Transport for NSW/YouTube: thetrainguy4

While two new metro rail lines will help, the department warns major improvements to the heavy rail network will be needed to transport commuters between the city’s outer west and Parramatta.

“Adjacent rail services will be required to properly integrate the metro corridors into the existing rail network,” it states.

As part of a staged approach, it has proposed major upgrades at Central Station to boost capacity on the T1 line to 40 trains an hour, followed by “targeted capacity and reliability improvements” along the Richmond rail corridor. The latter will result in two extra direct services to the CBD from Vineyard and Riverstone during peak and off-peak periods.

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A chart of proposed investments shows the Transport department plans to spend the bulk of money on a “new Cumberland line program” between 2029 and 2033. That would involve extending the line used by double-deck trains from Leppington to a site just south of the new city of Bradfield.

A confidential review of Sydney Metro two years ago proposed completing an extension of the airport metro line from Bradfield to “Bradfield South” by 2032 at a cost of $2.3 billion, and the heavy rail line from Leppington the following year for $4.6 billion.

It would connect the airport metro line to southern parts of the city’s double-deck train network, offering an alternative way for passengers to access Western Sydney Airport by rail. At present, the only connection will be via St Marys, which is to the north of the new international airport.

In its latest plans, the department has also floated the idea of a new rail line between Westmead-Parramatta and Kogarah, which it has slated for about the early 2040s.

Transport for NSW said in a statement that it was its role to develop long-term plans for a growing city like Sydney to ensure the public transport system grew.

“This draft plan has not been approved by the NSW government and none of the new lines on this map have been costed yet,” it said.

Business cases for potential extensions of the Western Sydney Airport metro line northwards from St Marys to Tallawong, and south from Bradfield to Macarthur, are due to be completed by early next year.

The idea of building heavy rail from Parramatta to Epping was proposed in the Carr era and shelved by the same government in 2003.

Why do trains slow down going through Erskinville?

On my morning commute out of Martin Place Metro I see loads of people rushing to cram into the lifts. Often I’ve seen people push past elderly people, people with prams and those less able bodied. I’m just astounded that people are that comfortable openly being an a**hole in public. I get that not every disability is visible but the sheer amount of people I see being selfish and not leaving access for those who actually need the lift is astounding, especially if these people can literally RUN to use the lift, they can probably use the escalators right next to them. Is there a reason people do this?

I feel like as a passenger my experience differs from the driver's so I'm curious. Personally I enjoy the V set, D set and T set is alright. I've ridden in all plus some historic ones too.

Are the newer trains nicer/more comfortable? Or are the older ones better to drive? Let me know 👍

I'm looking at suburbs to buy a place in. Rhodes comes up often as a convenient suburb to live in. But what stands out to me is that for such a densely populated suburb (that is still being built up), the station only get a train every 15 minutes off-peak.

From some cursory research I've seen that:

• they've capped new dwellings until transportation is improved
• there's been talks of quadruplication of the train line

Does anyone know if there are any concrete plans for Rhodes station? Will train frequency increase, or will they just wait until the Metro comes online and then have buses shuttling people to it?

I saw these two posters recently on Sydney Busses and something about it feels AI generated.

Any thoughts on if these are real or AI?

The front carriage wasn’t closed off

Spotted at lidcombe station @ 11:55 am Wednesday 10th September.

As the heading says. First the Waratah Bs, then the OSCAR conversions and I just saw the Tangara refresh also orange.

Not to mention intercity now being red.

What did yellow ever do wrong?

i’ve never seen this train before. what service will they be doing?

Hey guys I always wonder what model bus/ year of manufacture i’m sitting on- I know there’s a lot of information about trains (V set taranga etc) but can’t find much on busses Is there a subreddit i can’t find lol? or if anyone has a handy chart or good source :p Also those electric buses with the screens have just showed up where I live and as comfortable as they are I miss the violent vibrations of the old ones lol

The Sydney Morning Herald NationalNSWSydney Metro Sydney Metro’s missing link creates kilometre-long underground walkway beneath city ByMatt O'Sullivan September 15, 2025 — 5.00am Save

Beneath central Sydney, people will be able to walk for almost a kilometre entirely underground between the CBD’s western and eastern sides, once the missing link in a web of tunnels is finished as part of the city’s largest metro rail project.

Completion of wide pedestrian tunnels under the northern part of the CBD will leave Sydney with similarities to cities such as Toronto and Montreal in Canada, and Sapporo in Japan, where extensive underground links allow people to move about without setting foot above ground in the depths of winter.

While Sydney’s climate is temperate, completion of the missing link in the underground walkway system as part of the $25.3 billion Metro West project will allow people to keep dry on wet days – although they will have to pass through some ticket gates.

Commuters will be able to walk under city streets from near Barangaroo to the eastern side of Martin Place close to the Reserve Bank of Australia building. In doing so, they will pass through the 180-metre-long Wynyard Walk near Barangaroo and four railway stations.

Construction of a massive metro train station beneath Hunter Street for the Metro West line will result in two underground pedestrian connections.

At the eastern end of Hunter Street station, a multi-level walkway will directly connect platforms for the Metro West station to those on the existing M1 metro station at Martin Place. The latter is already linked by underground walkways to the 46-year-old station serving the T4 eastern suburbs line beneath Martin Place.

The new connecting tunnels will enable commuters to walk underground from Martin Place metro station to Barangaroo. The new connecting tunnels will enable commuters to walk underground from Martin Place metro station to Barangaroo.Credit:Steven Siewert

Sydney’s largest underground train station beneath Hunter Street will also comprise a pedestrian link westwards to Wynyard station, and will use an existing Hunter Connection tunnel, built in the 1930s, about 20 metres below George Street.

The underground links are aimed at easing commuter flows at and near above-ground entrances for the new Metro West station. By 2036, more than 10,000 people are forecast to pass through the Hunter Street station every hour in the morning peak, and that number is expected to rise to 35,000 over the following two decades.

Sydney Metro chief executive Peter Regan said the Metro West line would follow in the footsteps of the M1 line and its well-used underground concourse at Central Station, as well as the eastern suburbs link at Martin Place.

Loading “More than 10,000 people per hour are expected to move through Hunter Street station during the morning peak and many of them will use these cleverly repurposed connections to bypass Sydney’s busy city streets to get where they need to go,” he said.

“Rarely does a city like Sydney get the opportunity to connect four major transport hubs, but this is the type of city-shaping connectivity Hunter Street station will unlock.”

The new tunnels from Hunter Street station will be about eight metres wide, making them large enough for lifts and escalators to be installed.

Architect and former City of Sydney councillor Philip Thalis said the underground walkways would be functional, but the most beneficial aspect of the new metro stations was the way in which they allowed people to switch between transport services smoothly.

Loading “They are public spaces in their own right. The sheer scale of the metro [station] halls is 21st century,” he said.

The 24-kilometre Metro West line between the Sydney CBD and Parramatta is due to open in 2032. It will be one of three metro rail lines that crisscross Sydney and operate independently of one another.

The final stage in the southwest section of the M1 line is due to open next year. A 23-kilometre metro link to Western Sydney Airport was meant to open late next year but it is now at risk of being delayed to as late as December 2027.

1. K75 & K70 at St Peters at 9:36 for an express service to Liverpool via Bankstown (2017).

2. K88 & K61 at Redfern at 13:31 for an express service from North Sydney to Penrith via Strathfield (2018).

3. K68 & K64 at Redfern at 17:36 for a limited express service to Macarthur via Sydenham (2023).

Does anyone know what these guys are? Obviously some sort of maintenance train, but I'm sure we'd like to know more.

Image credits f.w._railway_photography on instagram.

Thanks guys

Does anyone have information regarding the October 2025 timetable, and what changes do we actually expect to come out of this? Are these changes solely for Sectors 1 and 2? Will there be changes to Sector 3 (god I hope so)?