Granville railway station

Granville railway station is a major station in the suburb of Granville, Sydney. The station is at the junction of the Western railway line and the Old Main South line and is served by trains of the T1:North Shore, Northern & Western Line and T2:Inner West and South Line on Sydney's Sydney Trains network, and some NSW TrainLink Intercity trains on the Blue Mountains Line. It has traditionally served as a transfer station, a role that has been diluted somewhat since the opening of the Cumberland Line in 1996.Granville is the 42nd most patronised railway station in Sydney (out of a total of 176 stations), with an average of 5990 passengers boarding per day.HistoryThe station opened in 1860 as Parramatta Junction, and is close to the original terminus of the first railway line in New South Wales which was completed in 1855. Granville Junction lies immediately to the west of the station and is the junction point of the Main Western Line and the original Main South Line, now referred to as the Old Main South after the opening of the Lidcombe-Cabramatta bypass.On 18 January 1977, the Granville railway disaster, Australia's worst rail disaster, occurred resulting in the death of 83 people, about 200 m west of the station.