Central Railway Station

Central Station Square looking West in 1921.

Central Railway Square in January 1929.

Central Railway Square on George Street having Christ Church, St. Laurence in 1900.

1910.

Central Railway Square in 1914.

Devonshire Street tunnel, opened in 1906, allows pedestrians to walk unimpeded from Central Station to Railway Square, and then on to the Marcus Clark building after an extension in the early 1970s, a total distance of some 380 metres.

I have memories of walking through it after night classes at the NSW Institute of Technology (now UTS). It was rather a dismal and dirty place, and somewhat scary when a beggar with a hand in his pocket asked if you could spare a dollar or two.

It now extends to Darling Harbour after the closure of the old goods railway line. This photo, taken circa 1977, by Niels Ellmoos, is held by the City of Sydney Archives. Derek Woodlands wrote at FB in 2026.  

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1939.

Central Railway Square, 1945. 

Central Station under construction in 1903. 

Central Railway Station tower sometime between 1922 & 1927. 

George Street at Haymarket.

slog up Pitt Street to Central Station circa 1912.

Cemetery where Central Station would be... 

same cemetery seen at a different angle...