‘Most terrifying after dark’: Commuters expose eerie train stops in $2m suburbs

House hunters are paying top dollar to live near transport links in some of Australia’s most sought-after suburbs – but commuters say a handful of those stations become deeply unsettling the moment the sun goes down. From alleged ghost sightings to isolated platforms hemmed in by bushland and suburbs with grisly backstories, some of Australia’s creepiest train stations are hiding in postcodes where homes fetch up to $2m. The eerie list emerged after a Sydney commuter asked others on Reddit which station felt “particularly creepy at night-time”, triggering a flood of responses from passengers who named the stops they would least want to be stranded at after dark. MORE NEWS ‘A long bow’: Truth behind vanished Aus suburb ‘I went to a property inspection and caught a ghost on camera’ Australia’s most haunted pub hits the market Among the first mentioned was Kotara, in Newcastle, where homes are worth about $1.9m but the local station was described by some as one of the most unnerving in the state. “My vote would have to go to Kotara,” one commuter wrote. “The dark bushland on both sides plus the clear lack of patronage, can just imagine the silence – I’d find it very unnerving waiting ...