Austral
Worth seeing in and around Austral
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Upper Canal System
The Upper Canal System, also called the Southern Railway Aqueduct and the Cataract Tunnel, is a heritage-listed operational gravity-fed aqueduct that supplies some of the potable water for Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The aqueduct comprises 54 kilometres of open canals, tunnels, and closed pipelines that connect the Upper Nepean Scheme with the Prospect Reservoir.
2.3 km · heritage-listed operational gravity-fed aqueduct that supplies some of the potable water for Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Austral
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 34 km · Newcastle (NTL), 158 km
- Stations
- Leppington railway station, 3.1 km
- Williamtown → Austral157 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · A$25–33
- Melbourne → Austral681 km · quickest by air, 6h 15m · A$280–400
- Gold Coast → Austral705 km · quickest by air, 6h 13m · A$270–400
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Austral
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Austral. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in(*partial-exits) If you are travelling out from the city (or from Sydney Airport) towards the south-west for a day trip you'll be moving against the peak, and can expect a quick run on the motorway.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Macarthur, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Austral – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Austral
Austral is 37 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hoxton Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia4 km
- West Hoxtonlocality in New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
- Horningsea Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
- Middleton Grangesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
- Leppingtonelectoral district of New South Wales, Australia2.6 km