Cairns railway station
Cairns railway station is a railway station in the Cairns CBD in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, serving the city of Cairns. The station is the terminus of the North Coast railway line from Brisbane and the terminus for the Tablelands railway line to the Atherton Tableland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway stop
- Description: railway station in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Cairns Railway Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cairns Hospital and Cairns Control Room.
Cairns Hospital
Hospital
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Cairns Hospital, known as the Cairns Base Hospital between 1932 and 2013, is the largest major hospital in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is located at 165 The Esplanade, Cairns North, Cairns. Cairns Hospital is situated 1½ km north of Cairns railway station.
Cairns Control Room
Building
Cairns Control Room is a heritage-listed military building at Grafton Street, Cairns City, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1942 by the Queensland Department of Public Works. Cairns Control Room is situated 690 metres north of Cairns railway station.
HMAS Cairns
Military installation
Photo: Fosnez, Public domain.
HMAS Cairns is a Royal Australian Navy base located adjacent to the Trinity Inlet on the shore of Trinity Bay in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Although used regularly as a port-of-call since before World War II, a permanent RAN presence was not established until 1971, when a maintenance and support base for patrol boats was set up. HMAS Cairns is situated 1¼ km southeast of Cairns railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cairns City and Parramatta Park.
Cairns City
Suburb
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Cairns City is a coastal suburb at the centre of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as the Cairns Central Business District. In the 2021 census, Cairns City had a population of 3,616 people.
Parramatta Park
Suburb
Parramatta Park is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Parramatta Park had a population of 3,621 people.
Portsmith
Suburb
Portsmith is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Portsmith had a population of 314 people.
Cairns railway station
- Categories: railway station, station located on surface, transport stop, and transportation
- Location: Cairns, Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-16.92566° or 16° 55′ 32″ southLongitude
145.77128° or 145° 46′ 17″ eastElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
5RM73QFC+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 11162772034OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stopGeoNames ID
8827671Wikidata ID
Q5017724
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Cairns railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Cairns”
- French: “Cairns”
- French: “gare de Cairns”
- German: “Bahnhof Cairns”
- Japanese: “ケアンズ駅”
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