Wollongong to Craigieburn train

Trains from Wollongong to Craigieburn start at €85.04 and take 5h 54m at their fastest.

WollongongWollongongCraigieburnCraigieburn

The Trains from Wollongong to Craigieburn starts at €85.04 and takes 5h 54m door to door, run by 1 operator over 737 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 19 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 54mDoor to door
  • 5h 10mMoving
  • €93.29 to €240.14From
  • 06:47 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 24.3 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.

€93.29 to €240.14 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 Wollongong to Craigieburn 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 €240.14Sun20
  2. about €163.69Mon21
  3. about €163.69Tue22
  4. about €125.19Wed23
  5. about €201.64Thu24
  6. about €159.29Fri25
  7. about €154.34Sat26
  8. about €111.99Sun27
  9. about €94.39Mon28
  10. about €93.29Tue29
  11. about €123.54Wed30
  12. about €132.89Thu1
  13. about €121.34Fri2
  14. about €126.84Sat3

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€85.04
  1. NSW TrainLink NS282707:301h 43m09:13Wollongong railway stationTuggeranong station
  2. NSW TrainLink NS682209:593h 31m13:30Tuggeranong stationCraigieburn

Changes at Tuggeranong, with 46 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 44mCO2 24.3 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€94.39
  1. NSW TrainLink NS855806:475h 10m11:57Wollongong railway stationCraigieburn

Door to door 5h 54mCO2 24.3 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€90.545h 46m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Craigieburn for the night the train gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Wollongong to Craigieburn

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

  1. €100.9990 days
  2. €74.0460 days
  3. €62.4945 days
  4. €73.4930 days
  5. €114.7421 days
  6. €126.8414 days
  7. €154.347 days
  8. €163.693 days
  9. €240.141 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €62.49.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 284 percent. The dearest point is €240.14, 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. €111.99Sun
  2. €94.39Mon
  3. €93.29Tue
  4. €123.54Wed
  5. €132.89Thu
  6. €121.34Fri
  7. €126.84Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Wollongong

Rail
  • Wollongong railway station
  • North Wollongong railway station
  • Bulli railway station

Craigieburn

Rail
  • Craigieburn
  • Donnybrook
  • Beveridge railway station
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 737 km against 640 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, Sydney, Canberra. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Wollongong 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 Wollongong to Craigieburn

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 Wollongong to Craigieburn take?

The Train from Wollongong to Craigieburn takes 5h 54m door to door, of which 5h 10m is spent moving. The route runs 737 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 Wollongong to Craigieburn cost?

The Train from Wollongong to Craigieburn starts at €85.04 for one passenger, as of 19 September 2026. A typical fare is €89.72. 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 Wollongong to Craigieburn?

1 operators run the Train from Wollongong to Craigieburn: 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 Wollongong to Craigieburn use?

The Train from Wollongong to Craigieburn leaves from Wollongong railway station and arrives at Craigieburn. 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 Wollongong to Craigieburn?

Fares for the Train from Wollongong to Craigieburn bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €62.49. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 284 percent, measured on 19 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Wollongong to Craigieburn produce?

The Train from Wollongong to Craigieburn produces about 24.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 737 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 Wollongong to Craigieburn?

Operators on the Train from Wollongong to Craigieburn publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 54m 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 Wollongong to Craigieburn on 19 September 2026: 737 km of route against 640 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €85.04, and 5h 54m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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