The Australian train system is very efficient. The trains are also very clean. Lately, due to…read moreCovid, there aren't as many passengers as usual. Riders buy an Opal card and load money on it. Then whenever you use it, you "tap on" at a little device that records your fare and how much you have left before you top it up. You can also tap directly with your credit card for contactless payment if you have the symbol on your card. Hornsby is a larger town so it is has a number of trains passing through the smaller villages on the way to Hornsby. It's also a very popular stop because it's right across from Westfield shopping mall and the Hornsby outdoor mall. I have been getting on the train at Lindfield since it's about a 10 minute walk from my bnb. It's fun to look at all the interesting village names: Turramurra, Warrawee, and Waroonga for example. I enjoy riding the train because it gets me where I want to go so no driving is needed.

Some rotten staff members from back in the day that were just horrid human beings to school…read morestudents, including me. I literally was trying my best not to get attention but when I lost my transport card, they scowled me instead of helping. These days staff don't care what students are up to. Which I'm happy for students but like its also gone a little in the other direction now lol. Anyway thanks for making my life miserable back in the day!

It turns out that I really had no choice but to get off the train at this station, but that mainly…read morehad to do with it being a limited express, and I wanted to get off at another station that this train wasn't stopping at. Look, it is probably a useful station for people who happen to live in the area, but in the long run it really isn't all that flash.

Tuzzamuzza. This station once provided easy access to Turramurra Music Shop, which back then was…read morethe one and only reason to visit the suburb. However, with their price gouging over the years, there came a day when the music died, and the people needed another reason to stop here. Some might suggest Gillian Day Spa is that reason, others the 1-star cyclery, whilst a great many others would laud praise on the India Tea & Curry House (with Jai Ho coming to the party later). Kipling's Garage Bar which turned an old garage into a funky new bar would be the current frontrunner... I hope to visit one day soon and rekindle my relationship with this station. Alas, it's been a while.

Actually, this station is actually a pretty major railway station in that it provides an…read moreinterchange between two lines, and when they open up the North-East link this will also, for a time at least, be the terminus (though I believe they are going to send the trains straight through to Chatswood). The station is pretty cool though, and has quite a few facilities as well. However, it is the underground section that I particularly like.

Space age! I love going down the stainless steel escalators. It reminds me of a James Bond movie…read moreand sliding down the metal part between the runs. The station is clean and efficient and very busy with people especially before and after work. The announcements are clear and there is a well sized lift....but please let the disabled people use it.

I remember coming down here quite a number of years back, and I also sort of remember catching the…read moretrain from here to head back into the city to wait for the train to Melbourne (which was leaving in the evening). The station itself really has nothing all that special about it, though I should mention that it does happen to be accessible. However, yeah, it really isn't one of those places that grabs my fancy.

Of late Cityrail has been doing a mysterious special express where it cuts out 3 stations between…read moreGordon and Hornsby and just does the Gordo-Tuzza-Waitara-Hornsby dash. I'm cheering on Monday's because it means I am in less of a rush to get to my gym class, and another worthless station gets skipped :) That's our Pymbie, gateway to the worst pub on the North Shore, and an easy stop to skip. Pymbie's weird like that. It kinda plonks you in the middle of nowhere. As someone that grew up in West Pymble I can attest to almost never using this train station in my youth, which seems absurd since my high school was in Waitara. However, the station was so far away that it was really only accessible by bus and anyone that knows Pymble avenue will tell ya that there ain't no bus on this planet gonna get up that hill... so the buses dumped ya at Gordon Station instead. Pymble train station only became a necessary station for me when I took on a job at the golf club behind PLC for 6 years. Even then it was a good 15 minute walk from the station to work (and I was coming via the city because I was studying computer programming at the time). Much like the pub of the same name, this station just ain't my scene!

The jewel of the upper North Shore. From its single open air platform to immaculately manicured…read moregreenery, this station is sleepy and serene. It's 1 of 2 stops that gets skipped, on the Gordon to Hornsby express leg, and it's probably testament to the easy going nature of the 'roongians that they let this slide. I've almost never alighted at this station, but have used it regularly to board on the city-bound leg. This usually has me facing the park with the sun peeking through gaps in the leaves, as I sit and wait. And somehow, for the briefest of moments, waiting for a train don't seem so bad.