The Junction, New South Wales
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The Junction School in 1960. | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 32°56′25″S 151°45′32″E / 32.94028°S 151.75889°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| Region | Hunter | ||||||||||||
| City | Newcastle | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 0.35 km2 (0.14 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 6 m (20 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 994 (SAL 2021) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 3,700/km2 (9,600/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2291 | ||||||||||||
| County | Northumberland | ||||||||||||
| Parish | Newcastle | ||||||||||||
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The Junction is a small, inner city suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 2.8 km (1.7 mi) southwest of Newcastle's central business district. It was originally part of Merewether, which is reflected in the names of some of the suburb's establishments, but was gazetted as a suburb on 17 May 1991.
At the 2016 census The Junction had a population of around 1,000.
The name of the suburb is from a former coal railway junction. The Burwood Coal Company's railway ran along what is now Union St and then further south toward Merewether. Another line branched off it, at a railway junction, to run west down what is now Glebe Road. The railway closed in 1954.