Welcome to Central Station
Start your tour at the CountryLink travel centre on
platform 1.
Central Station location No. 12:
Walk along the colonnade to the corner of Eddy Ave and Pitt St.
Walk to the end of this lower colonnade and view the plaque which commemorates
the 1902 completion of the foundations for the new station. This foundation
stone weighs 4.5 tons, was quarried at Bowral in the southern highlands
of New South Wales and brought by rail to Central. It cost 30 pounds sterling.
Chief Commissioner Eddy died in 1898. Rawson St, named after Governor
Rawson, was cut off at Pitt St (where you are now standing) and the remainder
of the street from Pitt eastwards to Elizabeth St, became Eddy Ave in
honour of the Chief Commissioner.
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