Classic route
Canberra Xplorer
Sydney → Canberra · Australia
Canberra Xplorer in pictures
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- Distance
- 321 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 77 km/h
- Top speed
- 145 km/h
- Operator
- NSW TrainLink
- Train
- Xplorer DMU
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1914
- Runs
- 3× daily each way
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only passenger train to Australia’s capital: three Xplorer railcars a day take the 1914 branch past the wind farms above Lake George.
Australia’s capital is reached by a single modest railcar service, and the Canberra Xplorer wears that duty well. Out of Sydney it climbs into the Southern Highlands, pauses at Goulburn’s grand 1869 station, then takes the 1914 branch across sheep paddocks and the wind-farmed escarpment above Lake George. The final bend follows the Molonglo River into Kingston, a short hop from Parliament House.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2666822 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 42 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 14 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: NSW TrainLink — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Southern Highlands towns of Mittagong and Moss Vale
- Goulburn’s 1869 station
- Tarago sheep country
- Wind farms above Lake George
- Bungendore village station
- Molonglo approach to Kingston
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