[2] The town is served daily by connecting NSW TrainLink services from Sydney via Bathurst and Lithgow.

John Granville Grenfell was driving a coach at the time and refused to stop when bushrangers called him to.

Acts included the organiser and Australian of the Year Lee Kernaghan, local and international star Steve Forde & the Flange, Adam Brand, Leo Sayer, Diesel, and The McClymonts.

In 2019, a mural was completed by Heesco Khosnaran upon the 1926 Grain Silos, owned by Grenfell Commodities, at request of founder Peter Mawhinney, requiring 180 litres of paint and 800 spray cans over a duration of five weeks.

Typical of the South West Slopes, Grenfell features a stark difference in temperatures and sky conditions between summer and winter.

Summers are hot and dry with long sunny periods interspersed with severe thunderstorms, whereas winters are cool and rainy with many overcast days.

Grenfell is an important centre for fossils from the Devonian period which are found in many surrounding outcrops of the Hunter Siltstone geological formation.

Formerly of Group 9, the club currently competes in the Woodbridge Cup competition, playing its home games at Henry Lawson Park.