History
The station opened on 17 September 1886 as Hornsby, but was renamed Hornsby Junction on 1 November 1894. This was due to the construction of Normanhurst Station to the south, which was initially named Hornsby as it was located in what was the more densely populated area of Hornsby at the time. Naming the station Hornsby Junction was an attempt to avoid confusion, but it was realised that having 2 Hornsby Stations was still very confusing. On 1 May 1900, the suburb and station to the south was renamed Normanhurst, and Hornsby Junction reverted to Hornsby which it has remained to the present day.
Under the CityRail Clearways Project, a fifth platform was constructed for use by through northbound trains. This opened on 16 March 2009. The existing Platform 4 became a centre turnback platform for Northern line trains. The additional platform allows extra trains to run on the Northern Line via the Epping to Chatswood line and improves reliability. As Hornsby is both an originating and terminating point for some services, on 10 July 2003 the communications system in a Millennium Train failed because the train's software could not compute that the origin and destination of the service had the same name.
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Circa 1900, looking north
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Circa 1920
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Footbridge (since demolished), circa 1930
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