Getting There

Drive

Bathurst, and Mount Panorama, are centrally located in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales and conveniently located on the Great Western Highway.

By road, Bathurst is:

  • 200km northwest of Sydney – approx. 2.5 hours
  • 255km from Canberra – approx. 3 hours
  • 780km from Melbourne – approx. 8 hours
  • 975km from Brisbane - approx. 11 hours
  • 1,175 from Adelaide - approx. 12.5 hours

No matter where you’re travelling from, the drive to Bathurst is full of beautiful scenery, including some of the most beautiful townships, farmland and mountain ranges of Central NSW.

Electric Vehicle charging stations are available at the Bathurst Visitor Information Centre.

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Train

The ‘Bathurst Bullet’ train operates a daily return service between Sydney and Bathurst.

Numerous daily services operate between Sydney and Lithgow with coach connections to Bathurst.

The Dubbo XPT runs daily from Sydney stopping at Bathurst, and on Mondays the Broken Hill Outback Explorer runs from Sydney and stops at Bathurst.

Plan your trip via train

Prior bookings are essential as seats do fill up.

Both train and coaches stop at the Bathurst Railway Station, located at the bottom of Keppel Street. Local buses and taxi are available to ferry passengers to a desired location.

Coach

Australia Wide Coaches operate daily bus services to and from Sydney. The coach does require passengers to pre-book their seats.

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Daily services also operate between Bathurst and other towns across NSW via NSW TrainLink.

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Fly

Bathurst has a medium-sized regional airport located at the outlying suburb of Raglan, roughly 10 minutes from the Bathurst CBD. Unfortunately, Bathurst Airport does not have a permanent carrier at this time and passenger flights do not operate out of Bathurst. Therefore, flights will need to be taken to Orange Airport and arrangements made to journey to Bathurst by hire car, taxi or bus.

Orange Regional Airport is a key transport hub for the central west, providing daily passenger connections with Sydney and weekday flights between Brisbane and Melbourne.

The airport is located 15km southeast of Orange, approximately 40 minutes drive from Bathurst.

Flight times between cities:

  • Sydney – Orange: Approx. 50 minutes
  • Melbourne – Orange: Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Brisbane – Orange: Approx. 2 hours

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