Petersham railway station, Sydney

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Petersham

Inner West Line
Station code	PSM
Suburb	Petersham
Street(s)	Trafalgar St
Distance from Central Station	5.50 km
Station Altitude (above sea level)	? m
Types of stopping trains	Suburban all stops
Number of platforms	2
Number of tracks	6
Platform arrangement	1 Island
Type of station	Ground
Ticket barriers	No
Transfers available	Bus
Disabled access	No
Station facilities	Link

Petersham railway station is on the Inner West Line of the CityRail network. It is located in the suburb of Petersham in Sydney, New South Wales. It receives the Inner West line services (4 services an hour on weekdays and 2 on weekends), which operate on the 'local' pair of tracks (the southernmost pair). A single island plaform is provided on the local tracks. Petersham train station is frequently used by more than 600 students from both Fort Street High school and Leichhardt High School, especially around 8:00am (when school starts) and 3:15pm (when school ends).^{[citation needed]}

1 History
2 Platforms/Service
3 Gallery
4 Neighbouring stations
5 External links
6 References

[edit] History

Petersham station opened in 1857.^[1] The Main Suburban Railway Line through Petersham was quadruplicated in 1892,^[2] and an island platform was built to serve both 'fast' and 'slow' pairs of tracks. The line was sextuplicated through Petersham in 1927 in association with electrification works^[3] and the island platform serving the old 'fast' pair of tracks (to become the 'Up' and 'Down Suburban' tracks) was demolished. An ornate station building stands to the north of the tracks, but is no longer used as part of the station.