Thornton railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia.

It serves Thornton in the eastern suburbs of Maitland opening in 1913.

[3] The original station site opened on 1 August 1871 as Woodford and was renamed in to Thornton in 1887 to avoid confusion with Woodford railway station in the Blue Mountains.

[4][5] The line from Tarro was duplicated in 1880 and quadrupled on 10 February 1913 when the current station site opened.

[6] Hunter Valley Buses operates two bus routes via Thornton station, under contract to Transport for NSW: