Banksia railway station
railway station in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Banksia railway station is a suburban railway station located on the South Coast line, serving the Sydney suburb of Banksia. It is served by Sydney Trains T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line services.
History
Banksia station opened on 21 October 1906 with one island platform. In 1923, as part of the quadruplication of the South Coast line from Wolli Creek to Rockdale, Platforms 1 and 4 were built along with an underpass.
In August 2020, an upgrade to Banksia station as part of the Station Access Program was proposed. It includes the addition of lifts, heavily modified entrances, canopy extensions, and upgraded toilets. Construction began in December 2020 and was completed on 16 March 2022, and the lifts were opened on 7 April 2022.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Banksia railway station” is railway station in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Banksia, railway and station, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “railway station in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4856687. Authority coordinates are -33.945, 151.140. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1923, 2020 and 2022.
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This entry incorporates text from “Banksia railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.