Canberra train station
The Canberra station located in the district Kingston the Australian capital Canberra . It is the terminus of the CountryLink trains to and from Sydney .
Immediately after Canberra was founded in 1913, construction began on a new rail link between Queanbeyan and the future capital. The line was built on behalf of the Australian Federal Government by the Ministry of Public Works of the State of New South Wales and opened on May 25, 1914, initially only for freight traffic.
The original development plan by Walter Burley Griffin provided for a rail link to the City Center district, the actual city center. Construction began in December 1920 under the direction of the New South Wales Railway Commission. The line was opened on June 15, 1921. It branched off just before today's train station , crossed the Molonglo River and ended at today's Garema Place. A little further north, in the Braddon district, was a small freight yard.
In July 1922, the temporary wooden bridge was destroyed in a flood of the Molonglo River. The bridge has never been repaired and the line has ended at its current location since April 21, 1924. When Canberra was given the status of the capital of Australia in 1927, the train service was noticeably improved with the introduction of sleeper trains , which connected to trains to Melbourne in Goulburn . In 1966 the original station building was replaced by a new building.
Web links
- History of the Canberra Railway ( Memento of February 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 35 ° 19 ′ 9 ″ S , 149 ° 8 ′ 54 ″ E