Leura station opened in 1890. From the street you take the stairs down to the island platform. A…read moremountain town feel at this small station. There's something a little stark about the main street of Katoomba. But you don't get that feeling on Leura's main street of Leura Mall. We would sometimes get off the mountain train here instead of Katoomba and walk down to Echo Point and beyond. A triffle further of a walk, but more pleasant in leaps and bounds. A whole different experience really. There's been some battles to keep this town quaint, but the people with the white hats seem to be winning. Eternal vigilance in a quiet town to keep it quiet. The historic streetscape has been largely preserved, and the median is planted with cherry trees. Leura is also known as 'the Garden Village' and every October springs the Leura Gardens Festival. There's also the Leura Village Fair at that time. Photography is a big thing around here. A friend used to work at the photography store here.

I have to admit that this station is awesome, though for the size of the station compared to the…read moresize of the town, it does feel somewhat out of proportion. However, as a railway station, it is actually pretty awesome, despite the fact that it really isn't the most accessible one. Oh, apparently there used to even be a bar here, if the signs are anything to go by, but I suspect that it has long since been closed and is now basically a heritage-listed regional station. However, it is still really worth to trip up here just to check it out.

A kind lady on duty at this station offered to help with my luggage. It has a lift, though it's a…read morebit confusing knowing where the ticket tap off points are.

Horrible experience. I had boarded a train with a bucket of bunches of daffodils. I have to be…read morecareful transporting them so I sat in the middle carriage and had a 4 seater and put the daffodils opposite me. Then 2 people come in the carriage with suitcases so I help them with the door and there is a city rail officer sitting in front of me and WITHOUT ASKING he pushes my seat I had the daffodils on and almost recked them I had to stop him. He was extremely rude, I was about to move I was just assisting these folks get in the train with their luggage first. I said to the city rail officer "you should have asked me first I have flowers here and I was going to move anyway" he responded with "sorry but you have to make room I don't care about your flowers" horrible attitude city rail. Horrible experience. 0/10 do not recommend city rail.

Opened on February 24, 1964, this is just a cute little station next after Glenbrook going west up…read morethe mountain. Stairs only. It's on a sharp curve in the train line to help get up the steep Lapstone Hill. A platform on each side of the two tracks. In off-peak there is one train per hour each way on the Blue Mountains line. "Come on, come on, we're gonna miss the train." More often in peak travelling times. If you miss your train, you can kill some time by taking the short walk from Lapstone train station going east down to the Lapstone Lookout to see the Nepean River. I think it is 1.5 km out and back. You have an hour till the train, yah? Lapstone is 64 km west of Sydney. Population: 1,000. It's name Lapstone is derived from the smooth water-worn stones in the area. Glenbrook creek is here and water comes down the steep hill carrying river pebbles. These stones look like those used by cobblers in the olden days who would hold the stones between their legs to work the leather when making shoes. A stone in the lap is a lap stone, yah?

Glenbrook is a residential mountain community 67 km west of Sydney in the Lower Blue Mountains…read more This picturesque little town of 5,000 people is the biggest community between Penrith and Springwood, further up the mountain. There is a Royal Australia Air Force Base in Glenbrook. Glenbrook station is on the Blue Mountains train line and was opened in 1913. The town was originally named Watertank and was a stop on the "little" zig-zag railway line. The purpose of the stop was so the steam trains could refill their engines with water from the Glenbrook Lagoon. Glenbrook Creek had been dammed up to make a lagoon to store water for the trains, and a pipe-line was constructed to transport water to a tank built alongside the rail line. When the township grew, the residents obviously realized you can't have a town called 'Watertank' so in 1879 they adopted the name Glenbrook after the Glenbrook Creek. The name Glenbrook was proposed by Sir John Jamieson who believed that the creek was a brook coming from Regents Glen. When we lived in the mountains we used to get the train to Glenbrook to go to the cute movie theatre here. Indy movies sometimes, or just regular.

Warrimoo is a village in the Blue Mountains 75 km west of Sydney. Warrimoo is an Aboriginal word…read moreword meaning 'place of the eagle'. The 2006 census population was 2,285. Elevation 273 metres (900 feet). In 1898, the Karabah railway station platform was built in the area for the new train line, but closed after a few years. In 1918 the new Warrimoo station was built at a location further south. In the 1950's the station building was burnt down in a bushfire and was subsequently rebuilt. In 2001, the Black Christmas bushfires swept through the area and destroyed about 8 houses. The Mountain train line runs one train each way per hour in off-peak, with additional trains during peak hours. Besides the railway station, Warrimoo has a prominent private school (Wycliffe Christian school), a small public school (Warrimoo Public School), and a cluster of shops and a post office around the station. There are some cool tracks and lookouts here, but mainly kept to local knowledge and not publicized. Do your research first if you wanna come out as the good stuff is hidden away. One star lost for holdin' out on us. On the north side of the station you can take Rickard Road to Warrimoo Oval and the Recreation Reserve. Dorothy Wall, the author of the Blinky Bill books lived in Warrimoo. One could therefore say that the famous fictional koala Blinky Bill was born here. The world would be a better place if more children read of Blinky Bill's adventures and adopted his wholesome values.

I probably should move away from calling places like Mascot Station new, since it is probably…read moresomething like 20 years old now. Then again, in the grand scheme of things, particularly when it comes to railway stations, it probably is new. Anyway, this is the station that you DON'T get off at if you want to go to the airport. The reason I mention this is that apparently a lot of people do, and then get really confused when they can't find the airport. It's an okay station otherwise, though they should have a big 'NOT THE AIRPORT' scrawled all over it (though they used to call it Suburban).

Only (2) stops to Central Station. Quick easy trip to Domestic and International Airport [via T2…read moreAirport Line].

Springwood is located 72 km west of Sydney and "half-way up the mountain" in a local government…read morearea of the City of Blue Mountains. At the 2011 census, Springwood had a population of 8,437 people. It is largely Anglo-Celtic. I know the place well because we used to live here in the neighbouring town of Faulconbridge, and would usually get on and off the train at Springwood rather than Faulconbridge station. Not much to say about a train station really. This one gets the job done. Springwood is a large train station with most of the town shops on the south side, including *Springwood Pizza*. On the north side is a huge multi-storey parking structure. The "Mountain Train" from Sydney up to here and beyond is very relaxing once you start to rise up from the coastal plains after Penrith. You can feel your stress melt away. Lots of Sydney workers commute from here, and Springwood is about as far as you would want to commute. Those living higher up the mountain are more retired persons or local workers, etc. The people also get weirder going higher up the mountain, where it is more sparsely populated. Don't mean to offend anyone, but its true of many, but not all. Hard to give more than three stars for a train station. It's just there if you know what I mean.