South Coast railway line, New South Wales

South Coast railway line
View of the South Coast line as it runs past the Illawarra Coke Company at Coalcliff
Overview
Owner	Transport Asset Holding Entity
Termini	Illawarra Junction Bomaderry
Stations	56
Service
System	Sydney Trains and NSW TrainLink
Operator(s)	NSW TrainLink Sydney Trains Pacific National
Rolling stock	H set (OSCAR) T set (Tangara) Endeavour railcars
History
Opened	1887 (1887)
Technical
Track length	153 kilometres (95 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	1,500 V DC overhead between Illawarra Junction and Kiama
Route map Legend km Main Suburban line to Central Illawarra Junction Main Suburban line to Granville Macdonaldtown Carriage Sheds Eveleigh Railway Workshops Eastern Suburbs line to Bondi Junction 2.9 Erskineville Sydney Metro to Tallawong 3.8 St Peters Sydney Metro Trains Facility South 5.3 Sydenham Port Botany line to Port Botany Metropolitan Goods line to Chullora Junction Bankstown line to Bankstown Meeks Road Junction XPT Service Centre 6.8 Tempe Cooks River Airport line to Central 7.3 Wolli Creek East Hills line to Glenfield 8.4 Arncliffe 9.6 Banksia 10.4 Rockdale 11.6 Kogarah 12.7 Carlton 13.7 Allawah 14.8 Hurstville 16.1 Penshurst 17.1 Mortdale Mortdale Maintenance Depot 18.3 Oatley Como railway bridge over Georges River Como (1st site) closed 1972 21.2 Como 22.2 Jannali 24.5 Sutherland Cronulla line to Cronulla Woronora Cemetery 26.3 Loftus Royal National Park 30.8 Engadine 33.2 Heathcote 38.7 Waterfall Waterfall Tunnel (daylighted) Sth Waterfall Temporary Junction Cawley Loop Cawley Tunnel Helensburgh Temporary Junction Old Helensburgh Tunnel 46.4 Helensburgh Helensburgh (1st site) closed 1915 Helensburgh Tunnel Metropolitan Tunnel Old Metropolitan Tunnel Metropolitan Junction Metropolitan Colliery Lilyvale No. 1 Tunnel Lilyvale No. 2 & Deviation Tunnels Lilyvale (1st site) closed 1915 Lilyvale (2nd site) closed 1983 Hacking River 54.6 Otford Otford Tunnel Bald Hill Tunnel Tin Tunnel 56.0 Stanwell Park Stanwell Park (1st site) closed 1920 Stanwell Park Tunnel Stanwell Park Viaduct Stanwell Creek Tunnel 59.3 Coalcliff Coalcliff South closed 1920 Clifton Tunnel Clifton closed 1915 62.5 Scarborough 64.4 Wombarra 66.2 Coledale 68.6 Austinmer 70.2 Thirroul Bulli Coal siding Bulli Colliery 72.2 Bulli 74.0 Woonona 75.6 Bellambi 77.0 Corrimal 78.0 Towradgi 79.4 Fairy Meadow 81.3 North Wollongong 82.9 Wollongong 84.1 Coniston Port Kembla Inner Harbour lines Port Kembla Line to Port Kembla 86.3 Lysaghts Dendrobium Colliery siding 87.7 Cringila Port Kembla Steelworks rail network 88.8 Port Kembla North Port Kembla Outer Harbour lines 90.2 Port Kembla 88.3 Unanderra Unanderra–Moss Vale line to Moss Vale 91.6 Kembla Grange Wongawilli Colliery siding 95.1 Dapto Yallah closed 1974 Tallawarra Power Station siding 103.3 Albion Park Oak Flats (1st site) closed 2003 105.5 Oak Flats Croom Tunnel 108.9 Shellharbour Junction Dunmore closed 2014 Dunmore Quarry siding Minnamurra River 113.4 Minnamurra Bombo Quarry siding 117.6 Bombo Kiama Tunnel 119.2 Kiama limit of electrification Omega Tunnels (x4) Omega closed 1982 128.6 Gerringong Toolijooa closed 1974 140.8 Berry Jaspers Brush closed 1982 Manildra starch mill siding 153.4 Bomaderry This diagram: view talk edit

The South Coast Railway (also known as the Illawarra railway or the South Coast line) is a passenger and freight railway line from Sydney to Wollongong and Bomaderry in New South Wales, Australia. Beginning at the Illawarra Junction, the line services the Illawarra and South Coast regions of New South Wales.

Opening in segments between 1884 and 1893, the South Coast railway line was built primarily to service the Coal Cliff Colliery, in which colonial government ministers and legislators were shareholders and as an economic link between the Illawarra and Sydney. It later connected the later industrial works at Port Kembla to the greater metropolitan freight railway network in Sydney. The line also serves as a public transport link for residents in St George, Sutherland and the Illawarra. The 56-station, 153-kilometre (95 mi) line is owned by the NSW government's Transport Asset Holding Entity, with passenger services on the line provided by Sydney Trains' Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line service in suburban Sydney and by NSW TrainLink's South Coast Line service in the Illawarra.