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.

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Type: Railway station
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

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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 740 metres north of Cairns railway station.

HMAS Cairns

Military installation

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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, also called Cairns CBD, is a coastal suburb comprising the central business district of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. 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: station located on surface and transportation
Location: Cairns, Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-16.92603° or 16° 55′ 34″ south

Longitude

145.7716° or 145° 46′ 18″ east

Elevation

12 metres (39 feet)

Open location code

5RM73QFC+HJ

GeoNames ID

8827671

Wikidata ID

Q5017724

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Satellite Map

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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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