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Until the 1990s most road freight between Sydney and Brisbane passed along the New England Highway instead, due to the easier topography of the Northern Tablelands it traverses. Between 1950 and 1967, traffic on Pacific Highway quadrupled due to the attraction of coastal towns between Sydney and Brisbane for retirement living and tourism.
Before the introduction of XPT railcars, the Brisbane Limited train between Sydney and Brisbane (here in 1987) was hauled by locomotives. The Sydney–Brisbane railway corridor consists of the 987-kilometre (613-mile) long 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard-gauge main line between the Australian state capitals of Brisbane and Sydney (New South Wales), and the lines immediately connected to it.
The North Coast railway line is the primary rail route in the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers regions of New South Wales, Australia, and forms a major part of the Sydney–Brisbane rail corridor. The line begins at Maitland and ends at Roma Street railway station in Brisbane, although freight services terminate at the yard at Acacia Ridge ...
M1 Pacific Motorway is a 127-kilometre (79 mi) motorway linking Sydney to Newcastle via the Central Coast and Hunter regions of New South Wales.Formerly known but still commonly referred to by both the public and the government as the F3 Freeway, Sydney–Newcastle Freeway, and Sydney–Newcastle Expressway, it is part of the AusLink road corridor between Sydney and Brisbane.
In 1974, the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway section was declared part of the National Highway, and the route marker was subsequently updated to National Highway 1 for this section [3] In 1993, the route numbering was further complicated with the introduction of the Metroad numbering system within the Sydney metro area.
North Sydney: North Sydney: 0: 0.0: Bradfield Highway (A1) [south] – Sydney Cahill Expressway [south] – Sydney: Southern terminus; Bradfield Highway (A1) (no access south to the Bradfield Highway) Road continues south as the Cahill Expressway (with access via Arthur Street) Warringah Freeway (M1) [north] – Willoughby, Mosman, Chatswood
The North Coast line to Brisbane, via the North Coast was opened in stages between 1905 and 1930, but a ferry carried trains across the Clarence River until the Grafton Bridge was completed in 1932. The Newcastle rail network remained independent of the main network radiating from Sydney until 1889, when the line between Sydney and Newcastle ...
Casino has one platform with a passing loop. Each day the station is served by a northbound XPT service to Brisbane and a southbound service to Sydney. In addition a daily XPT to/from Sydney terminates at Casino. [7] NSW TrainLink also operate coach services from the station to Tweed Heads, Robina, Surfers Paradise and Brisbane. [7]