Thornton railway station, New South Wales

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Thornton railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves Thornton in the eastern suburbs of Maitland opening in 1913. The original station site opened on 1 August 1871 as Woodford and was renamed in to Thornton in 1887 to avoid confusion with Woodford railway station in the Blue Mountains. The line from Tarro was duplicated in 1880 and quadrupled on 10 February 1913 when the current station site opened. To the south-west of the station, the Bloomfield Colliery branches off.

Platforms and services

Thornton has two side platforms. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Hunter Line services travelling from Newcastle to Maitland, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Scone, Telarah and Dungog.

Transport links

Hunter Valley Buses operates two bus routes via Thornton station, under contract to Transport for NSW:

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