East Maitland railway station, New South Wales

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East Maitland
Hunter Line
Station code	EAM
Suburb	East Maitland
Street(s)	Melbourne St
Distance from Central Station	181.34 km
Station Altitude (above sea level)	? m
Types of stopping trains	Suburban all stops
Number of platforms	2
Number of tracks	4
Platform arrangement	Island
Type of station	Ground
Ticket barriers	No
Transfers available	No
Disabled access	No
Station facilities	Link

East Maitland is a railway station in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. It is part of CityRail's outer suburban network, on the Hunter Line. It is both the second and fourth site of the station known as East Maitland , the first being about where Victoria St station is, the third opened originally as Morpeth Junction when the short branch to Morpeth was opened in 1866 and about 400 metres from the present site of East Maitland . The second station was closed in 1873 and became the goods yard. It was reopened with the construction of the coallines- double railway tracks next to the main tracks which were constructed in 1916 at which time the Morpeth line was realigned to junction with trains to and from Newcastle instead of to and from Maitland.

Today the station shows the former importance with the disused Morpeth platform just to the north of the main line and with a former ticket and parcels office at the lower level of the station entry.

Preceding Station (inbound)	Line	Following Station (outbound)
Victoria Street	Hunter Line	High Street