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Broadmeadow

Broadmeadow is a locality in the Hunter region of the Australian state of New South Wales.

Broadmeadow
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The place

Broadmeadow is a locality in the Hunter region of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is the geographic centre of the Newcastle city and suburban area. Its main commercial hub is located at the "Nineways". The locality is also home to the main depot and production site of the railway company UGL Rail, the Broadmeadow Rail Depot. At the 2021 census, it had a population of approximately 1,688.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broadmeadow

10 places 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.

  1. 01
    University of Newcastle

    The University of Newcastle is a public university in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1965, it has a primary campus in the Newcastle suburb of Callaghan.

    3.8 km · university in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Newcastle International Sports Centre

    Newcastle International Sports Centre is a stadium located in the Newcastle suburb of New Lambton. It is primarily used for rugby league and soccer as the home ground of the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League, and Newcastle Jets FC in the A-League Men.

    900 m · stadium in Newcastle, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Newcastle Art Gallery

    The Newcastle Art Gallery, formerly the Newcastle City Art Gallery and Newcastle Region Art Gallery, is a large public art museum in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

    3.9 km · public art museum in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hamilton

    Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hamilton, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle and the seat and residence of the Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The position is currently held by Bishop Michael Kennedy, who was installed on 2 February 2023 following the death of Bishop William Wright on 13 November 2021.

    2 km · catholic cathedral in Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Newcastle Civic Theatre

    The Newcastle Civic Theatre, also known as The Civic, is a heritage-listed building located on Hunter Street, Newcastle, Australia. Opened in 1929, the 1520-seat theatre is now the venue for a wide range of musicals, plays, concerts and dance events each year and is the city's oldest surviving theatre.

    3.7 km · theatre in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Newcastle Museum

    Newcastle Museum is in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The museum is connected with Newcastle Libraries.

    2.4 km · regional museum in Newcastle, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Newcastle Number 1 Sports Ground

    Newcastle Number 1 Sports Ground is a multi-use stadium located in Newcastle, New South Wales, and has a nominated capacity of approximately 10,000. It neighbours Newcastle Number 2 Sports Ground.

    3.2 km · Sports ground in Newcastle, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Newcastle Entertainment Centre

    Newcastle Entertainment Centre is a multi-purpose Australian arena within the Newcastle Showground. It was opened in 1992.

    700 m · multi-purpose Australian arena · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Westfield Kotara

    Westfield Kotara is a large shopping centre in the Newcastle suburb of Kotara in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Westfield Kotara is one of the two Westfield branded shopping centres in New South Wales that is not located within the Greater Sydney area, with Westfield Tuggerah being located on the Central Coast.

    3.8 km · Shopping mall in Kotara, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Newcastle Number 2 Sports Ground

    The Newcastle Number 2 Sports Ground, more commonly known as No.2 Sportsground is a rectangular sports stadium in Newcastle West, Australia that lies adjacent to Newcastle Number 1 Sports Ground. It is the home stadium of Newcastle Jets, the Hunter Wildfires Rugby Union Club, the Hunter Rugby Union and the Wanderers Rugby Club.

    2.9 km · soccer stadium in Newcastle West, Newcastle, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Broadmeadow

Airports
Newcastle (NTL), 16 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 126 km
Stations
Wickham railway station, 2.5 km · Adamstown railway station, 2.5 km · Broadmeadow railway station, 900 m · Civic railway station, 3.7 km · Hamilton railway station, 1.3 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Broadmeadow
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · A$20–26
  • Gold Coast → Broadmeadow
    571 km · quickest by air, 5h 15m · A$230–340
  • Toowoomba → Broadmeadow
    597 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · A$220–340
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broadmeadow

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 Broadmeadow. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards.

From Wikivoyage: Newcastle (New South Wales), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    867 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,218 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,365 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,912 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,232 km

If you know how people move in Broadmeadow – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Broadmeadow

Broadmeadow is 5 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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