Roma Street railway station, Brisbane

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Location Street address Roma Street Suburb Brisbane Brisway map Link Distance from Central 0.75 km (0.47 mi) TransLink zone 1 Access by Ground floor via Brisbane Transit Centre, or Roma Street Parklands Features and facilities Number of platforms 10 Station layout 4 island, 2 side platforms Ticket vending machine Yes Disability access Yes Citytrain profile Link Connecting services Train transfer Yes Bus transfer Yes, Roma Street Busway Station and Brisbane Transit Centre Next stations Inbound Outbound Airport Line terminus Central Beenleigh Line Central South Brisbane Caboolture Line terminus Central Cleveland Line Central South Brisbane Corinda via South Brisbane Line Central South Brisbane Doomben Line terminus Central Ferny Grove Line terminus Central Gold Coast Line Central South Brisbane Ipswich Line Central Milton Nambour and Gympie North Line terminus Central Shorncliffe Line Milton weekday off-peak South Brisbane weekends Central Exhibition Line Clockwise Anticlockwise Exhibition Central

Roma Street railway station is a major railway station in the Brisbane central business district, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It was Brisbane's first railway station, opening in 1876. Roma Street is part of the QR Citytrain network, in Zone 1 of the TransLink integrated public transport system, and is the Brisbane terminus for most Queensland long-distance trains.

The station has a total of ten platforms. Platform 2 is the terminus for the standard gauge XPT service from New South Wales, platforms 2, 3 and 10 are for long-distance train travel within Queensland (including the Tilt Train), and the remainder serve the Citytrain suburban network. All Citytrain services, including the Airtrain, stop at Roma Street. Platforms 1 and 2 make up the Roma Street Busway Station.

Pedestrian access to the station is through the ground floor entrance of the Brisbane Transit Centre, a walkway from the end of George Street, or through the Roma Street Parkland.

Contents 1 Services by platform 2 Non-Citytrain services 3 TransLink bus routes servicing Roma Street Station and Brisbane Transit Centre 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Services by platform

Roma Street Station currently serves all suburban, interurban and long distance trains. The platforms at Brisbane's Roma Street Station are numbered from 1 to 10, with 1 being the easternmost platform and 10 being one of the westernmost. However during peak hour, some services may use different platforms from the ones listed below. The services which generally use each platform are listed below.

Platform	Line	Destination	Notes
1	Inner Northern Busway	Northern & Western suburbs
2	Inner Northern Busway CountryLink North Coast	City, Southern & Eastern suburbs Sydney
3
4 & 5+	Beenleigh Line Gold Coast Line Cleveland Line Corinda via South Brisbane Line	Beenleigh Robina Cleveland Corinda	All stations* Express All stations* Peak-hr
6 & 7	Ferny Grove Line Airport Line Doomben Line	Ferny Grove Domestic Terminal Doomben	All stations* Express All stations
7 (only)	Nambour & Gympie North Line Exhibition Line	Cooroy/Gympie North Exhibition	Express Special
8	Ipswich/Rosewood Line Exhibition Line	Ipswich/Rosewood^ Exhibition	All stations* Special
9	Caboolture Line Shorncliffe Line Nambour and Gympie North Line Exhibition Line	Caboolture Shorncliffe Nambour Exhibition	All stations* All stations* Express Special
10	Traveltrain	Long Distance

+ Note: Cleveland, Beenleigh and Gold Coast services depart from Platform 6 during weekends & public holidays.
* Note: Express services operate on most suburban lines during peak periods.
^ Note: Rosewood direct services normally operate during peak only, at other times, a change is required at Ipswich.

[edit] Non-Citytrain services

[edit] TransLink bus routes servicing Roma Street Station and Brisbane Transit Centre