City

Central Train Station

A charming little hub with a big-station heart, if you can forgive the crowding.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 60469 · 2025

Pieces752

Minifigs6

Year2025

Set number60469

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The verdict

This is one of those City sets I wanted to love completely, and I mostly do, but I have to be honest with you about the squeeze.

LEGO packed a three-story station, a working elevator, a coffee bar, a control room and a curved glass roof into 752 pieces, and every one of those features ends up a touch smaller than it wants to be. As a real, playable centerpiece for a train layout it works beautifully, especially for a family building together. Just know going in that it reads as the start of a great station rather than the whole thing.

Best for: City train-layout fans who want a central hub to build outward from

The full review

What it is

The thing that got me about the Central Train Station is how much personality it fits into a fairly modest box. You get a three-story station topped with a clock tower, a working elevator that actually carries figures up and down, a cozy coffee bar, a control room, a bus stop, two passenger platforms, a ticket machine and a little timetable display. On top of all that sits a curved transparent roof that catches the light in a way photos never quite do justice. When I stood it next to a running loop of track it instantly looked like the beating heart of a City, which is exactly what a station should feel like. There is a warmth to it, a sense of a busy place where people actually come and go, and the six minifigures plus a baby and two pigeons sell that little world nicely.

The catch

Here is where I have to be straight with you, though. The designer clearly wanted to include everything a real station has, and 752 pieces simply cannot carry all of it at full size. So the coffee bar is tiny, the control room is a nook, the platforms are short, and almost every feature ends up slightly compressed. Reviewers have said the same thing, that it looks more like the starting point for a bigger station than a finished building, and I think that is a fair read. The other catch is the price. At 99.99 dollars this is not a cheap set for the part count, and the value has already softened a fair bit on the secondary market since release. And the part that surprises people most: there is no actual passenger train in the box, only a maintenance railcar with a cherry picker. If you are picturing a locomotive pulling in, you will need to supply your own.

Who it's for

So who should bring this one home? If you already run LEGO trains, or you have been meaning to, this is close to a no-brainer, because it gives your loop a proper destination and endless room to expand outward with your own bricks. Families will get a lot of joy out of the elevator and the busy little details, and the 7-plus age rating feels right. The people I would gently steer away are anyone expecting a big, complete, museum-piece station straight from the box, or anyone who wants a train included. Go in seeing it as a generous foundation rather than the last word, and you will be delighted with it.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build itself is friendly and quick-moving, aimed squarely at the City audience rather than the deep-Technic crowd, so it rarely stumps you. The most satisfying moment is assembling the curved roof: you clip a run of transparent garage-door roller panels along the top and drape them over a Technic gear rack quarter-circle so they bow into that lovely arched glass shape. It is one of those techniques that looks far fancier than the step count suggests, and it is worth building slowly just to watch it take form. The elevator mechanism is the other little highlight, a simple string-and-pulley setup that genuinely works and always earns a smile.

On the parts front this is more about clever reuse than a haul of rare molds. The honest headline is that crutches are the only genuinely new element here, so bargain-hunting parts monsters will not find a trove. The real prize is the pair of pigeons, a brand-new bird introduced for 2025, and they are the perfect finishing touch for a station scene. Those transparent and Earth Blue garage-door panels are handy in bulk too if you like architectural roofing. For value, 752 pieces at 99.99 dollars is not a standout ratio, so you are paying for the play features and the printed detail rather than raw brick count.

Fun facts

01The set does not include a passenger train at all, only a maintenance railcar fitted with a cherry picker, so you supply your own locomotive.
02The two pigeons are a brand-new LEGO element debuting in the 2025 range, and crutches are the only other genuinely new piece in the box.
03The curved glass roof is built from transparent garage-door roller panels draped over a Technic gear rack quarter-circle rather than any dedicated curved-window part.
04BrickEconomy lists the set at a 99.99 dollar RRP with an expected retirement around mid-2029.