Coffs Harbour to Newcastle train

Trains from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle start at €43.79 and take 3h 38m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle starts at €43.79 and takes 3h 38m door to door, run by 1 operator over 367 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 38mDoor to door
  • 2h 54mMoving
  • €47.09 to €113.09From
  • 06:47 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 12.1 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€47.09 to €113.09 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

NSW TrainLink runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Coffs Harbour to Newcastle on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €111.99Fri18
  2. about €113.09Sat19
  3. about €85.04Sun20
  4. about €68.54Mon21
  5. about €70.19Tue22
  6. about €63.59Wed23
  7. about €81.74Thu24
  8. about €65.79Fri25
  9. about €62.49Sat26
  10. about €56.99Sun27
  11. about €48.19Mon28
  12. about €47.09Tue29
  13. about €62.49Wed30
  14. about €57.54Thu1

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026

Cheapest€43.79
  1. NSW TrainLink NS610807:301h 6m08:36Coffs Harbour railway stationWauchope railway station
  2. NSW TrainLink NS370510:151h 51m12:06Wauchope railway stationNewcastle Interchange

Changes at Port Macquarie, with 99 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 5h 20mCO2 12.3 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€48.19
  1. NSW TrainLink NS345106:472h 54m09:41Coffs Harbour railway stationNewcastle Interchange

Door to door 3h 38mCO2 12.1 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
NSW TrainLink€45.993h 16m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

The train gets you into Newcastle. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Newcastle for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Newcastle Interchange and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Coffs Harbour to Newcastle

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €48.1990 days
  2. €36.6460 days
  3. €34.9945 days
  4. €50.9430 days
  5. €53.6921 days
  6. €57.5414 days
  7. €81.747 days
  8. €85.043 days
  9. €111.991 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €34.99.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 220 percent. The dearest point is €111.99, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €56.99Sun
  2. €48.19Mon
  3. €47.09Tue
  4. €62.49Wed
  5. €57.54Thu
  6. €65.79Fri
  7. €62.49Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Coffs Harbour

Rail
  • Coffs Harbour railway station
  • Sawtell railway station

Newcastle

Rail
  • Newcastle Interchange
  • Newcastle railway station
  • Civic railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 367 km against 319 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Pittwater, Sydney, Central Coast, Port Macquarie. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Coffs Harbour at 06:47 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Coffs Harbour to Newcastle

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle take?

The Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle takes 3h 38m door to door, of which 2h 54m is spent moving. The route runs 367 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle cost?

The Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle starts at €43.79 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €61.93. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle?

1 operators run the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle: NSW TrainLink. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle use?

The Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle leaves from Coffs Harbour railway station and arrives at Newcastle Interchange. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle?

Fares for the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €34.99. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 220 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle produce?

The Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle produces about 12.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 367 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle?

Operators on the Train from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 38m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Coffs Harbour to Newcastle on 17 September 2026: 367 km of route against 319 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €43.79, and 3h 38m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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