Hunter Line

Hunter Line
A Hunter railcar at Hamilton
Overview
Service type	Intercity rail
Locale	Hunter Region, New South Wales
Current operator	Sydney Trains
Route
Termini	Newcastle Interchange Dungog Scone
Stops	28
Lines used	Newcastle Main North North Coast
Technical
Rolling stock	J set Hunter railcar N set Endeavour railcar
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Track owner	Transport Asset Manager of New South Wales
Timetable number	HUN
Route map Sydney Trains intercity services Blue Mountains Central Coast & Newcastle Hunter South Coast Southern Highlands v t e

HUN Hunter Line
Routemap design based on official Transport for NSW branding
km from Central 165.6 Newcastle Interchange 164.6 Hamilton Limit of electrification to Central Coast and Sydney 166.0 Waratah 168.7 Warabrook 170.5 Sandgate 175.5 Hexham 178.2 Tarro 179.8 Beresfield 182.2 Thornton 185.1 Metford 187.9 Victoria Street 188.8 East Maitland 191.4 High Street 192.6 Maitland 194.7 Telarah 203.5 Mindaribba 213.2 Paterson 218.5 Martins Creek 226.4 Hilldale 231.7 Wallarobba 238.0 Wirragulla 245.2 Dungog Northern Region to Grafton, Casino and Brisbane 202.6 Lochinvar 210.8 Greta 215.6 Branxton 238.9 Singleton 288.8 Muswellbrook 300.7 Aberdeen 314.7 Scone North Western Region to Armidale and Moree
Legend
Station Interchange station CCN  Central Coast & Newcastle Line NSW TrainLink North Western Region NSW TrainLink North Coast Region Not all rail services shown For closed stations, wheelchair access and other features see: Template:Main North railway line, New South Wales   Template:Newcastle railway line, New South Wales RDT   Template:North Coast railway line, New South Wales
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The Hunter Line (HUN) is an intercity rail service running from Newcastle, with two branches to Dungog and Scone in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It operates on the Newcastle, Main North and North Coast lines.

Hunter Line services operate from Newcastle on the Newcastle branch line to Islington Junction, the Main North Line between Islington Junction and Scone, the North Coast Line between Maitland and Dungog. The Hunter Line shares its portion of the Main North Line and North Coast Line with NSW TrainLink North Western and North Coast regional services respectively.

Services run regularly between Newcastle and Telarah, with infrequent services to Dungog and Singleton, Muswellbrook and Scone.^[1] Services are operated by Endeavour and Hunter railcars.

Until 2007, 620/720 class railcars operated the service. The line was the last in Australia to have a regular steam hauled passenger service. The final service was hauled from Newcastle to Singleton on 24 July 1971 by 3246.^[2] Diesel locomotive hauled services operated until replaced by 620/720 and 660/760 class railcars in 1984.

The line was truncated to terminate at Hamilton from 5 January 2015.^[3] It was extended to Newcastle Interchange when this opened on 15 October 2017.

• New South Wales Hunter Railcar 2-car DMUs
• New South Wales Endeavour Railcar 2-car DMUs

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  Endeavour railcar
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  Hunter railcar

The following table shows the patronage of each line of the NSW TrainLink Intercity network for the year ending 30 June 2025, based on Opal tap on and tap off data.^[4]