same time. In 2009, the station became unattended following a network-wide review of low-patronage stations. In 2014, electronic ticketing in the form of the Opal smart card became available at the station. Being sandwiched between Bombo Beach on one side and the six-lane Princes Highway on the other, and with only the quarries and a cemetery opposite, the station has a limited walking catchment and very low patronage (3,374 passenger movements in 2014). Critics have suggested that trains no longer stop at Bombo, arguing for a new station to the north in the centre of Kiama Downs. This proposal has not progressed, however. Platforms & services Bombo has one platform. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink South Coast line services travelling between Sydney Central, Bondi Junction and Kiama. Transport links Premier Illawarra operates one bus route via Bombo station: 71: Stockland Shellharbour to Kiama Description The station complex includes the type 14 platform building (1887), the out of room ( 1887), the signal box (1925), the platform canopy (modern), the platform (1887), and the signals in the signal box. The station is located on the eastern side of the Princes Highway, just east of the ocean beach at Bombo. The site has views in all directions, including of the ocean, ocean beach, Bombo escarpment to the west, southern headland of Kiama to the south. The station is entered from the south via a ramp off the Princes Highway footpath which skirts the station. The station perimeters are defined with white powdercoated aluminium fencing. There is a layback off the eastern side of the Princes Highway south of the station to allow vehicles to drop off passengers. Platform building (1887) Externally it is an awningless single-storey weatherboard platform building with a gabled corrugated steel roof and weatherboard tongue & grooved board eaves. There are five doors opening onto the platform, one doorway (to the waiting room) has a simple timber fretwork awning. There is one timber framed double hung window to the northern end of the building's east (platform) elevation. The building has a blank facade facing the Princes Highway to the west. The building has a skillion roofed toilet addition at the southern end, with a single modern flush timber door, and timber louvres and highlight fixed obscure glass window towards the uppermost part of the walls. The interior (from south to north) contains: toilets (in southern addition); store room,