Editing Sydney (section)

====Suburban trains====
{{Main|Sydney Trains}}

[[File:Central Station Concourse Hall.jpg|thumb|[[Central railway station, Sydney|Central station]] is the busiest railway station in Australia, and the city's main public transport hub.]]
Sydney has the largest public transport network in Australia, with 67% of residents having access to adequate public transport services.<ref>{{cite web |title=How Australia's biggest cities rank for public transport access |website=SBS News |publisher=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-australias-biggest-cities-rank-for-public-transport-access/iy0wrwm4k |access-date=20 May 2025}}</ref> Sydney's rail network began with the construction of a rail line to present-day Granville in 1855. Afterwards, the network grew with European settlement in the 19th century.<ref name="NSW Rail History">{{cite web |title=History of the NSW railways |website=NSW Government |access-date=20 May 2025}}</ref> The first electric trains were introduced in 1926, by which point electric trams were also running. By 1991, all lines within Sydney were electrified.<ref name="Dictionary of Sydney Rail Electrification">{{cite web |last1=Dunn |first1=Mark |title=Electrification of the Sydney Suburban Train Network |website=Dictionary of Sydney |access-date=20 May 2025}}</ref> The rail network, aswell as all public transport within Sydney, is ticketed through [[Opal card | Opal cards]], reusable and contactless cards that are used to automatically calculate and collect transport fares.

Established in 1906, [[Central railway station, Sydney|Central station]] is the largest and busiest railway station in the state and is the main hub of the city's [[Railways in Sydney|rail network]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Sydney Trains |date=2014 |url=http://www.sydneytrains.info/about/history/central_station.htm |title=Central Station |access-date=10 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625093221/http://sydneytrains.info/about/history/central_station.htm |archive-date=25 June 2014}}</ref> [[Sydney Trains]] is the [[suburban rail]] service. Its tracks form part of the New South Wales railway network. It serves 168 stations across the city and had an annual ridership of 302&nbsp;million passenger journeys in 2023–24.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 December 2024 |title=Sydney Trains Annual Report |url=https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2024/sydney-trains-annual-report-2023-24-volume-1.pdf |access-date=19 December 2024 |website=Transport for NSW}}</ref> Sydney's railway was first constructed in 1854 with progressive extension to the network to serve both freight and passengers. The main station is the [[Central railway station, Sydney|Central railway station]] in the southern part of the CBD. In the 1850s and 1860s, the railway reached areas that are now outer suburbs of Sydney.<ref name="Transport" />