Moss Vale railway station, New South Wales

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Moss Vale
Southern Highlands Line
Station code	MSV
Town	Moss Vale
Street(s)	Bay St
Distance from Central Station	145.710 km
Station Altitude (above sea level)	? m
Types of stopping trains	Intercity
Number of platforms	3 (2 in use)
Number of tracks	9
Platform arrangement	1 Island
Type of station	Ground
Ticket barriers	No
Transfers available	Bus
Disabled access	Yes
Station facilities	Link

Moss Vale Railway Station is a station and intermediate terminus of the Southern Highlands line of the CityRail intercity network, serving the town of Moss Vale, New South Wales, Australia. The station opened in on 2 Dec 1867 as Sutton Forest, but was renamed to Moss Vale ten years later. It is served by the diesel railcars that use the Southern Highlands Line, but is also served by CountryLink services running between Sydney and Melbourne, Canberra and Griffith.

The station has an unusually wide island platform, which is connected to the station entrance and the street by a pedestrian overpass. There is effectively Easy Access to the station. Platform 2 of the station contains a cafe. At the north end there is a dock platform, which was previously used for passenger trains that used the connecting line to Wollongong, the junction for which is just north of the station. Since regular passenger trains no longer use the line (apart from a twice weekly heritage service), the platform is usually unused except as a storage for freight engines.

Since the station is an intermediate terminus for the line, with only a few services continuing further south to Goulburn, the station has a large stabling yard for the Endeavour railcars that use the line. They can be stored here overnight, stabled, and fueled, but are serviced in Eveleigh or Broadmeadow Service Centres.

1 Platforms/Service
2 Neighbouring stations
3 Connecting Services
4 See also

[edit] Platforms/Service

Moss Vale signal box.

The station is part of the Southern Highlands Line which has an infrequent service, with trains running approximately every 1.5 to 2 hours. Most trains on the line terminate here, with only 3 trains a day each way on weekdays, and 2 trains on weekends serving the stations further south of Moss Vale. These trains only come in the early morning and in the evenings. During the daytime on weekdays there is a replacement bus service heading south in the late morning, and heading north in the afternoon. The station is also served by four CountryLink services each way; 2 XPT services to Melbourne, and 2 Xplorer services to Canberra. On Saturdays, the morning Canberra service which divides at Goulburn also proceeds to Griffith, the return journey arriving with the afternoon service from Canberra on Sunday.

Dock platform (not numbered):

Not currently in use - this platform is no longer used by passenger services.

Platform 1:

Southern Highlands Line - terminating services; intercity services to Campbelltown and Central.
CountryLink Southern - country services to Sydney (4 per day).

Platform 2:

Southern Highlands Line - intercity services to Goulburn.
CountryLink Southern - country services to Melbourne (2 per day), Canberra (2 per day) and Griffith (1 per week).

[edit] Neighbouring stations

Preceding Station (inbound)	Line	Following Station (outbound)
Burradoo	Southern Highlands Line	Exeter

Countrylink Southern
Bowral (Canberra Xplorer) (Griffith Xplorer) Campbelltown (Melbourne XPT)	↔	Moss Vale	↔	Bundanoon (Canberra Xplorer) (Griffith Xplorer) Goulburn (Melbourne XPT)

[edit] Connecting Services

The station has an adjoining bus stop, which is served by the South Coast (Wollongong) to Southern Highlands (Bundanoon) CityRail bus route which operates via Robertson. One service comes from Bundanoon in the early morning heading to Wollongong and a return service from Wollongong to Bundanoon operates in the evening. Three other services depart from this station to Wollongong: one in the early morning, one in the early afternoon and another the early evening. Return services for these arrive in the early and late mornings.