Liverpool & Inner West Line
B sets passing atSummer Hill.
Overview
Service type	Commuter rail service
Status	Operational
Locale	Sydney,New South Wales
Predecessor	Inner West (1999–2013) Bankstown (2013–2024)
First service	30 September 2024; 16 months ago (2024-09-30)
Current operator	Sydney Trains
Route
Termini	City Circle Liverpool
Stops	30
Average journey time	1 hour
Lines used	City Circle Main Suburban Main Southern
On-board services
Disabled access	Yes
Technical
Rolling stock	K,M,A and B sets
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)standard gauge
Electrification	1,500 V DC fromoverhead catenary[1]
Track owner	Transport Asset Manager of New South Wales
Timetable number	T3
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TheT3 Liverpool & Inner West Line is asuburban rail service operated bySydney Trains in theInner West andWestern suburbs ofSydney. It operates from theCity Circle toLiverpool via theMain Suburban railway line toLidcombe and theMain Southern railway line from there to Liverpool.

Since 2024, the line has been numbered T3 and is coloured orange on maps and wayfinding information.

The section of theMain Suburban railway line used by Liverpool & Inner West Line services is the oldest railway in New South Wales, having opened in 1855. The section of theMain Southern railway line fromLidcombe toCabramatta viaRegents Park that it also uses is newer, having opened between 1912 and 1924 as deviation to provide a more direct route toLiverpool.^[2][3]Electrification to Liverpool was completed by 1929, after which electric passenger suburban services began operating the same route from Liverpool to theCity Circle via Regents Park as they do today.

Following the2011 state election, the newly electedO'Farrell government embarked on reform of transport in New South Wales, creating a new organisation,Transport for NSW, in November of that year. This was followed up with another government reform, which sawSydney Trains take over operation of the Sydney suburban rail network fromCityRail in July 2013.^[4]

Transport for NSW developed a new rail timetable, which was put into effect on 20 October 2013.^[5] The 2013 timetable was designed to integrate the projects of theRail Clearways Program, a 2004 plan to divide the network's fourteen metropolitan rail lines into five independent "clearways" by installing extra tracks, passing loops, turnouts and turnbacks at pinch points around the network, such as atHomebush and Lidcombe. By 2013, the Rail Clearways Program was substantially complete.^[6]

The 2013 timetable saw services from Liverpool to the City Circle via Regents Park, which had previously been operated by CityRail under the name Inner West Line, phased out. Instead, from 2013 stations on the Main Southern railway line between Lidcombe and Cabramatta were only serviced by the T3 Bankstown Line, a Sydney Trains continuation of earlier CityRail services on theBankstown railway line. This service operated as two branches, one from Liverpool and one from Lidcombe, connecting to the City Circle viaBankstown andSydenham instead of via the Main Suburban railway line. This configuration utilised the new turnback at Lidcombe, and reduced bottlenecking on the Main Suburban railway line. However, the changes attracted criticism due to the increased number of interchanges and increased travel time for passengers from stations west of Bankstown.^[7][8][9]

From 30 September 2024, a new Sydney Trains timetable was introduced which restored services from Liverpool to the City Circle via Regents Park and the Main Suburban railway line, branded as the T3 Liverpool & Inner West Line.^[10][11] This coincided with the partial closure of the Bankstown railway line between Bankstown and Sydenham for its conversion as part of theSydney Metro City & Southwest project.^[12] The restoration of this service was informed by community consultation undertaken by Transport for NSW in 2020, in which 85% of respondents favoured the option of restoring services from Liverpool to the City Circle via Regents Park.^[13]

• Sydney Trains A and B sets 8-car EMUs
• Sydney Trains M set 8-car EMUs
• Sydney Trains K set 8-car EMUs

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  Waratah A sets
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  Waratah B sets
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  Millennium M sets
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  K sets

T3 Liverpool & Inner West Line
km continues as 5.0 Museum 4.4 St James 3.0 Circular Quay 2.0 Wynyard 1.2 Town Hall 0.0 Central 1.3 Redfern 2.5 Macdonaldtown 3.1 Newtown 4.7 Stanmore 5.5 Petersham 6.2 Lewisham 7.0 Summer Hill 8.4 Ashfield 9.4 Croydon 10.6 Burwood 11.8 Strathfield 12.7 Homebush 14.3 Flemington 16.6 Lidcombe 18.4 Berala 19.9 Regents Park 21.2 Sefton 22.3 Chester Hill 23.7 Leightonfield 24.5 Villawood 25.9 Carramar 32.0 Cabramatta 34.2 Warwick Farm 35.7 Liverpool
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T3 Liverpool & Inner West Line services begin in theSydney CBD on theCity Circle. After leavingCentral, T3 services use theMain Suburban railway line to travel through theInner West. AtLidcombe T3 services branch off from the Main Suburban, and use theMain Southern railway line viaRegents Park to complete their journey toLiverpool.

The following table shows the patronage of Sydney Trains network for the year ending 30 June 2024.

• Leppington & Inner West Line

• 2024 establishments in Australia
• Standard-gauge railways in Australia
• Sydney Trains
• Inner West

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