Buxton

Postcode: 2571

Buxton is a small village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wollondilly Shire. It's name comes from the town of Buxton, Derbyshire.

It developed around a railway station and later crossing loop on the Main Southern Railway. This line had very steep gradients as steep as 1 in 30, and in 1919 the railway was deviated to a less steep line.

The new line became the Main Line, and the original line became the Picton Loop line. The loop line was eventually closed due to lack of traffic and lack of maintenance, but the section from Picton to Buxton was retained as a Heritage railway. The population is 1466 (Census 2001).

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