A newly upgraded Exhibition station will provide rail services all year round for one of Brisbane’s fastest growing suburbs.
It will provide improved transport options for the RNA Showgrounds redevelopment and King Street precinct, as well as staff and visitors to Herston Quarter and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
You can now explore the future Exhibition station precinct with our 3600 panorama by using the link below.
Concept image of the Exhibition station entry
Travel to the Ekka in 2023 will be different due to Cross River Rail construction works. You’ll still be able to get to and from the Ekka using trains and buses from the below nearby stations:
users per day by 2036
open all year round
for multi-direction travel
This video includes concept developments and designs which are not final or approved.
Exhibition station tour. This video contains concepts and designs which are not final or approved.
Aerial view of Bowen Hills, showing the RNA Showgrounds, Old Museum, Bowen Bridge Road and Inner City Bypass.
Zoom in along the existing railway line to Exhibition station, which currently operates during Ekka and some major events at the RNA Showgrounds. The station and railway will be connected to the Cross River Rail tunnels at Normanby, travelling south towards Roma Street Station and remain above ground travelling north to Albion Station.
Exhibition station will receive a significant upgrade through the Cross River Rail project, to enable it to operate all year round. The station platform will be converted for two-way travel, with one central, elevated platform accessed from underneath.
The platform length will be extended, running from the Royal International Convention Centre to behind the Main Arena stands.
From the platform level, take a short flight of stairs, or the lift to a lower-ground concourse with access to the Showgrounds precinct on both sides. This is where the Translink ticket gates will be located.
The concourse opens onto the existing RNA Showground precinct, with steps and an accessible ramp leading in the direction of Gregory Terrace. This route will take passengers to the King Street dining precinct, the Old Museum and other major events in the Showgrounds main arena.
Pause on the plaza and fly up to view the station looking towards the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital precinct. The aerial view shows an awning running the length of the platform, providing shade and shelter to passengers using the station.
The view rotates back around to the main arena, as the sun sets and fireworks light up the sky above the Showgrounds.
The newly upgraded station will provide pedestrian links between Exhibition station to Bowen Bridge Road, as well as service residents in the new developments underway in the Brisbane Showgrounds precinct and Fortitude Valley.
At Exhibition, an upgraded station located between the RNA Showgrounds and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, will provide year-round rail services to one of Brisbane’s fastest growing inner-city suburbs.
Between January and February 2020, the UNITY Alliance sought feedback on the concept design for an upgraded Exhibition station, as part of the Cross River Rail project. You can read the feedback in full here.
Construction is now underway at Exhibition station.
For those who currently cycle through the area, please look at the map below to see preferred cycling routes through the Exhibition station precinct.
If you want to know more, all of this information is available in PDF form:
Check where work has started, what's coming up and how it will impact you.