An adult travelling by train from Sydney’s International Airport Station to Wollongong pays $29.27 at peak times and $26.07 off-peak, as of 26 October 2026, because a station access fee of $18.61 is added to the train fare at the airport stations. The Trip Planner showed trips taking about 1 hour 23 minutes to 1 hour 54 minutes.
An adult travelling from Sydney’s Central station to Wollongong pays $10.66 at peak times and $7.46 off-peak with Opal, according to Transport for NSW’s fare table and Trip Planner as of 25 October 2026. The direct South Coast Line trains in the Trip Planner took about 1 hour 27 minutes to 1 hour 42 minutes.
An adult travelling from Sydney’s Central station to Gosford pays $10.66 at peak times and $7.46 off-peak with Opal, according to Transport for NSW’s fare table and Trip Planner as of 22 October 2026. The trip takes about 1 hour 18 minutes to 1 hour 25 minutes on the Central Coast and Newcastle line services that Trip Planner showed for Thursday morning.
Transperth’s standard fare for a trip across the Perth network is Go Anywhere, which costs $3.50 in cash or by contactless payment, $3.15 with a SmartRider and $2.80 with a SmartRider on Autoload, for up to three hours of travel on any bus, train or ferry. A trip of 3.2 km or less on a single service uses the cheaper 2 Sections fare of $2.40. These fares took effect on 1 January 2026.
The go explore card is still sold. It gives a visitor unlimited travel on Translink buses and trams on the Gold Coast for $1.50 per day, which matters because the standard fare is now 50 cents per journey. That makes the pass cheaper only if you make four or more separate journeys in a day.
Children aged 5 to 14, seniors, pensioners and veterans all pay 50 cents a journey on Translink services in South East Queensland as of 21 October 2026, because the old half-price concession fares no longer apply. Children aged 4 and under travel free, children with a child go card also travel free on weekends, and seniors can ride Brisbane City Council buses and ferries free at set off-peak times, with weekends and public holidays listed for buses.
Newcastle Airport at Williamtown is served by two public bus operators, and the Port Stephens Coaches buses to Newcastle Interchange take between 29 and 40 minutes in the operator’s timetable. You pay with an Opal card or by tapping on and off with an American Express, Mastercard or Visa card, as of October 2026.
If you tap on and off with the same go card, contactless card or phone, a bus-to-tram or tram-to-train trip on the Gold Coast is still one journey and one 50 cent fare, as long as each transfer is within 1 hour and you make no more than 3 transfers. The rules below are from Translink’s transfer pages and are accurate as of October 2026.
Canberra Airport is connected to the City by Transport Canberra’s Rapid 3 bus, which runs seven days a week including public holidays. On weekdays the timetable puts the first bus from the airport at 5:55am and the last at 10:52pm, with a bus about every 15 minutes through most of the day, and on weekends a bus every 30 minutes.
Seniors, students, children aged 5 to 14, pensioners, veterans and job seekers all pay the same 50 cents per journey on Gold Coast trams, buses and trains, according to Translink, because the half-price concession fares no longer apply while the flat fare does. Children aged 4 and under travel free.