lbury railway station is the station serving the New South Wales border town of Albury on the main Sydney-Melbourne railway line. The station is 642.40 km (399 mi) from Central railway station in Sydney.
History

Albury Station was opened on 3 February 1881. This coincided with the opening of the Gerogery to Albury extension of the Great Southern Line from Sydney.[1] At that time the Victorian line was complete as far as Wodonga, and a trip between Sydney and Melbourne required a coach connection to cross the Murray River.

The broad gauge line from Melbourne reached Albury in 1883. [2] New South Wales had a different railway gauge, which meant that all travellers in either direction had to change trains at Albury. To accommodate this, a very long railway platform was needed; the covered platform is one of the longest in Australia. In 1962, the standard gauge line was extended to Melbourne’s Spencer Street Station (now Southern Cross), and all freight and interstate passenger services use the long standard gauge platform. Broad gauge trains from Melbourne continued using the back (dock) platform, however, have ceased operating in 2008 as the broad gauge line is being converted to standard gauge.