A secure chamber in the catacombs of the Sydney rail hub holds a decade-old collection of timepieces. It’s worth thousands – but rail bosses are unsure what to do with it.
A room at Central Station which is full of clocks that have been collected over decades from across parts of the train network in Sydney. Dominic Lorrimer
If you take a winding path through Central Station’s underground service tunnels and pass through two locked doors, you enter a little-known crown jewel of the NSW railway system – the clock room.
A feature wall lined with rows and rows of octagonal drop-dial clocks, with pendulums mercifully silent, clustered around a central giant railway clock fills your view as you walk in.
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