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The Cronulla railway line is a suburban branch line serving the southern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Trains operates electric passenger train services over the line as part of its Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line .
The Cronulla branch line and the Eastern Suburbs Railway are exclusively used by passenger trains. Historically, passenger services were provided to the Sydney Central by steam locomotives. The first services to Hurstville were run by steam locomotives of the Q.158 and R.285 classes. [ 28 ]
Cronulla railway station is the heritage-listed terminus railway station on the Cronulla line in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built by the NSW Department of Railways during 1939.
The Eastern Suburbs Railway (ESR) is a commuter railway line in Sydney constructed in the 1970s. [1] It is operated by Sydney Trains and has stations at Martin Place, Kings Cross, Edgecliff and Bondi Junction.
The accident was the third major accident resulting in fatalities on the CityRail network in 13 years, after the Cowan rail accident in 1990 and Glenbrook rail accident in 1999. On 24 November 2011, a Pacific National coal train derailed near Clifton , causing the suspension of South Coast Line services between Waterfall and Thirroul .
Diesel shuttle trains connect at Kiama and operate to Bomaderry. Although electrified to Wollongong in 1985, several diesel trains operated between Sydney and Nowra until 1991, one of which was the South Coast Daylight Express, operated as a locomotive hauled train of Budd and Tulloch type passenger cars which included catering facilities. [48]
In late 2019, as part of the Transport for NSW's More Trains More Services program, a crossover was proposed to be built east of the station, to allow Hurstville to Bondi Junction all station services to swap operation from the Illawarra Local tracks to the Illawarra Main tracks and utilise platforms 3 & 4 instead of 1 & 2.
Gymea railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Cronulla line, serving the Sydney suburb of Gymea. It is served by Sydney Trains' T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line services.