Sydney to City of Port Phillip train

Trains from Sydney to City of Port Phillip start at €90.54 and take 7h 2m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Sydney to City of Port Phillip starts at €90.54 and takes 7h 2m door to door, run by 1 operator over 824 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 2mDoor to door
  • 6h 18mMoving
  • €103.74 to €225.29From
  • 06:47 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 27.2 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.

€103.74 to €225.29 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

12Go lists the departures it sells between Sydney and City of Port Phillip.

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

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Sydney to City of Port Phillip 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 €202.74Mon21
  2. about €174.69Tue22
  3. about €171.94Wed23
  4. about €225.29Thu24
  5. about €170.29Fri25
  6. about €172.49Sat26
  7. about €155.99Sun27
  8. about €105.39Mon28
  9. about €103.74Tue29
  10. about €137.84Wed30
  11. about €142.24Thu1
  12. about €129.59Fri2
  13. about €135.64Sat3
  14. about €112.54Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026

Cheapest€90.54
  1. NSW TrainLink NS962507:301h 57m09:27North Sydney railway stationCanberra railway station
  2. NSW TrainLink NS239711:093h 52m15:01Canberra railway stationCity of Port Phillip station

Changes at Canberra, with 102 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 8h 15mCO2 26.0 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€105.39
  1. NSW TrainLink NS295006:476h 18m13:05North Sydney railway stationCity of Port Phillip station

Door to door 7h 2mCO2 27.2 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€100.996h 19m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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A hotel room

A room in City of Port Phillip for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Sydney to City of Port Phillip

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

  1. €128.4990 days
  2. €91.6460 days
  3. €81.1945 days
  4. €74.0430 days
  5. €108.1421 days
  6. €112.5414 days
  7. €155.997 days
  8. €171.943 days
  9. €202.741 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €74.04.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 174 percent. The dearest point is €202.74, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €112.54Sun
  2. €105.39Mon
  3. €103.74Tue
  4. €137.84Wed
  5. €142.24Thu
  6. €129.59Fri
  7. €135.64Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Sydney

Rail
  • North Sydney railway station
  • Rookwood railway station, Sydney
  • APM Siding
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 824 km against 716 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 Tuggeranong, Wollongong, Canberra. The gap between arriving and leaving is 91 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 11 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 Sydney at 06:47 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Sydney to City of Port Phillip

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 Sydney to City of Port Phillip take?

The Train from Sydney to City of Port Phillip takes 7h 2m door to door, of which 6h 18m is spent moving. The route runs 824 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 Sydney to City of Port Phillip cost?

The Train from Sydney to City of Port Phillip starts at €90.54 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €95.76. 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 Sydney to City of Port Phillip?

1 operators run the Train from Sydney to City of Port Phillip: NSW TrainLink. Between them they file around 4 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 Sydney to City of Port Phillip use?

The Train from Sydney to City of Port Phillip leaves from North Sydney railway station and arrives at City of Port Phillip station. 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 Sydney to City of Port Phillip?

Fares for the Train from Sydney to City of Port Phillip bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €74.04. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 174 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Sydney to City of Port Phillip produce?

The Train from Sydney to City of Port Phillip produces about 27.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 824 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 Sydney to City of Port Phillip?

Operators on the Train from Sydney to City of Port Phillip publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 2m 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 The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Sydney to City of Port Phillip on 20 September 2026: 824 km of route against 716 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €90.54, and 7h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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