Central is a heritage listed railway station in the centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and Australia's largest and busiest railway station, serving as a major interchange for rail, light rail, buses and coaches. It was officially opened on August 4, 1906, with passenger services beginning the next day, and was designed by the government architect Walter Liberty Vernon working with railway engineers in a Federation Free Classical style built of Sydney sandstone at a cost of 561,000 pounds. Built on a grand scale, the station gained an 85.6 meter clock tower in 1921, and its design separated passenger, tram and vehicle traffic through elevated platforms and an extensive underground luggage network, with a prominent colonnade and porte cochere that once sheltered tram passengers. The building was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on April 2, 1999.
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Building Type LocationEddy Avenue, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing Status Building Type
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Central railway station, Sydney - Wikipedia
Introduction, sentence 1
Central is a heritage-listed railway station
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Eddy Avenue, Sydney, New South Wales
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Central is a heritage listed railway station in the centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and Australia's largest and busiest railway station, serving as a major interchange for rail, light rail, buses and coaches. It was officially opened on August 4, 1906, with passenger services beginning the next day, and was designed by the government architect Walter Liberty Vernon working with railway engineers in a Federation Free Classical style built of Sydney sandstone at a cost of 561,000 pounds. Built on a grand scale, the station gained an 85.6 meter clock tower in 1921, and its design separated passenger, tram and vehicle traffic through elevated platforms and an extensive underground luggage network, with a prominent colonnade and porte cochere that once sheltered tram passengers. The building was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on April 2, 1999.
In Style: Edwardian architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Edwardian architecture in Australia
View the Source2. Central Railway Station, Sydney (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1906)Quote, Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1906)
Wikidata item Q1585639, property P1619: 1906
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