🎟️ A$21.92 per person, including the Humanitix booking fee.

🔗 Your access link is valid for 30 days from purchase. Each participant requires their own ticket, smartphone and headphones.

🎧 Available any day, any time. This is a self-guided audio tour that can be completed whenever it suits you after purchase.

Step beyond the platforms and uncover the hidden stories behind Sydney’s famous City Circle railway. This self-guided audio tour takes you on a fascinating journey through Central, Museum, St James, Circular Quay, Wynyard and Town Hall stations, revealing a side of Sydney that most commuters pass by every day without noticing.

Created and narrated by Sydney guide Marc Cote, the same storyteller behind the popular guided walking tour, this audio experience was recorded on location to capture the atmosphere, movement and hidden details of the City Circle itself.

Discover the vision of engineer John Bradfield and learn how the City Circle transformed Sydney into a modern metropolis. Along the way, hear tales of ghost platforms, abandoned railway plans, wartime preparations, hidden infrastructure and the dramatic 1916 Army Riot at Central Station.

Using your smartphone and headphones, explore at your own pace as detailed audio commentary guides you between locations. Pause whenever you like, stop for a coffee, or spend extra time investigating the sights that interest you most.

This tour takes place in public areas of the stations and trains. No special access to tunnels, ghost platforms or restricted areas is required.

🎧 Self-guided audio experience

📅 Available any day, any time after purchase

🚶 Approximately 2 hours

📍 Starts at Central Station Platform 1

📍 Finishes at Central Station Grand Concourse

☔ Undercover and suitable in all weather

💳 Participants require an Opal card, debit card or credit card for City Circle travel

📱 Smartphone and headphones required

🔍 Highlights include:

👻 Ghost platforms and abandoned railway plans

🚇 Hidden tunnels and forgotten infrastructure

🪖 World War II history and wartime preparations

🚋 Lost tram platforms at Wynyard

🏛️ Historic stations and railway architecture

📖 Stories hidden in plain sight across Sydney’s rail network

Perfect for visitors, locals, railway enthusiasts and anyone curious about Sydney’s hidden history. Experience one of Sydney’s most unique historical journeys whenever it suits you.

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