Paddington
Getting to Paddington
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 9 km · Newcastle (NTL), 133 km
- Williamtown → Paddington132 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · A$21–28
- Gold Coast → Paddington74 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · A$10–13
- Toowoomba → Paddington103 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · A$15–20
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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 Paddington
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 Paddington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCircular Quay has the Opera House, Ferries, Harbour Foreshore and the Botanic Gardens.
- Get inThere is also a direct link to Barangaroo via the train station, which has a ferry wharf for ferries to Parramatta, North Sydney, and a more circuitous but scenic route to Circular Quay.
- Get inCircular Quay is underneath the railway station and close to the ferry terminal.
- Get inThe most pleasant way to arrive in Sydney city centre, or to get out and see the Sydney harbour or north shore, is by ferry.
- Get inMost ferry routes (from 41 wharves around the Sydney harbour suburbs) start or finish at Circular Quay, at the northern end of the CBD.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney/City Centre, 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 Paddington – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Paddington
Paddington is 3 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.