Bondi Junction Station

Bondi Junction train station is maintained pretty well compared to some of the other station in city that are either dirty or feel unsafe.
The train station is the end of the line or beginning of the line whether your arriving or departing I guess. So it’s either get on or off here. All trains go towards the City so you don’t need to think much before you board.
The service is pretty frequent leaving every 5 – 10 minutes during peak hours and 15 mins non peak.
The interchange upstairs offers multiple bus options to other destinations and the quickest way to Bondi Beach.
The station now offers OPAL top up machines for your convenience.

What do you even say about a train station? Trains are pretty much on time in my experience and never too far apart. Maybe one of the perks of being end of the line?
It is Clean enough by station standards, and I’ve not tried the coffee on the platform. Good proximity to Bondi shopping and the interchange to get the 333 bus down to the beach.
Bondi Junction station: do try it

If you rock up on a Monday morning with no ticket you will queue half an hour for one. Why doesn’t Sydney have Oystercard? London got it 15 years ago!
So the tip is to make sure you have a ticket before the morning peak — all whining aside!

Review, ey… It’s a railway station. What do you expect?
It’s the end — of the line, the Eastern suburbs line.
Here you’ll find exits and toilets and station staff and even trains (highly recommend those if you wanna get in and out of Bondi Junction).
Good station. Nothing spectacular about it, but also nothing wrong with it. It’s clean and it’s spacious and it even serves you a coffee on the platform if you feel inclined.
There are monitors before the gates. Take a look at them, so you’ll know when the next one leaves. Forget about running down the escalator if the train leaves in 1 min. You might take out a few of your fellow commuters on the way down. Trains leave from either platform. Once you’re at the bottom of the longish escalators take a look at the monitor to see which platform the next train leaves from. Don’t dash if you still have 5 minutes before departure.
I noticed many commuters not familiar with Bondi Junction station (backpackers?) don’t see the departure monitor at the bottom end of the escalator indicating the time left before departure and arrow pointing to the platform. They see a train and assume it’s leaving now, even if the monitor says 3 min. But hey, that’s part of the fun, isn’t it?
Bondi Junction station offers direct access to a big bus interchange (Bondi Beach anyone?). Be careful when exiting that interchange station, or you might get run over by a bus, which could be particularly embarrassing if you didn’t put on your clean underwear that morning — remember what your grandma said?
In summary, BJ station is ok. Nothing too exiting, nothing to shabby either.