Wondabyne railway station

Wondabyne railway station is a railway station on the Newcastle and Central Coast Line in the NSW TrainLink Intercity network. The station is noted for its remoteness and having an extraordinarily short platform (like Zig Zag), which is less than a train carriage long.

The station is a request stop, indicated on the timetable by an a next to the stop time. Any passenger wishing to alight at the station must inform the guard of their intention to do so, and then travel in the last carriage of the train and exit through the rear door only. When a passenger wishes to board a train at Wondabyne, they must signal the driver. The platform on the Mullet Creek side connects to a public pontoon. Six kilometres downstream (southwards), Mullet Creek flows into the Hawkesbury River. It is the smallest railway station on the Central Coast and Newcastle Line.

Bushwalking Tracks
At the south end of the platform on the escarpment side is a track that climbs to the edge of the plateau above. At the edge a well formed fire trail continues on to Mount Kariong and then the Gosford suburb of Kariong. There is a bus service from Kariong to Gosford. Fifteen minutes along the trail from the edge of the escarpment, on the south side, a track commences that ends at the well known geological formation, Pindar Cave.

Platforms and services
The station receives roughly one service every hour each way in off-peak periods, which is usually a Central to Wyong service. It receives a few additional services during peak hours. Trains don't stop at the station between 9:45pm and 4:15am.

Trivia

 * It is the only railway station in Australia which has no road access
 * It is the only request stop on the CCN line
 * Although it is so remote, the station still has CCTV, automated announcements and an emergency help point
 * The stop number assigned to Wondabyne station does not begin with Wondabyne's postcode, unlike most other stations. It begins with 2250, the postcode for Gosford (which is a few kilometres north of Wondabyne). However, the stop number assigned to the platforms begins with Wondabyne's postcode, 2256.