City

Train Station

The train hub City fans waited years for, and the bus alone almost steals the show.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 60335 · 2022

Pieces907

Minifigs6

Year2022

Set number60335

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The verdict

This is the proper station LEGO City train collectors had been asking for, and it delivers a real hub rather than a token platform.

The bus is the sleeper hit, with two sets of doors, a bike rack, and a partially removable roof, and the road-and-rail cherry-picker with its little towed portable toilet made me grin. My honest reservation is the station building itself, which stays sealed up top, so the interior you spend time detailing is hard to actually see once it is built. If you already own a City train, this is close to essential.

Best for: City train collectors who want a real station hub, not just a platform

The full review

What it is

I have a soft spot for a set that finally answers a request people have been making for years, and this Train Station is exactly that. LEGO City trains had rolled around forever without a proper home base, and here you get the whole hub in one box: a ticket office, a coffee bar, a control room, a covered platform, and a track piece that clicks straight into your existing City train loop. What surprised me most, though, was not the building at all. It was the bus. It has two sets of doors, plenty of seating, a bike rack on the back, and a roof that lifts partly away, and it uses the same door parts as the High-Speed Passenger Train from the same wave. There is also a road-and-rail cherry-picker truck towing a tiny portable toilet, which is the kind of daft, specific detail that tells you the designers were having fun.

The catch

I will be straight with you about where it stumbles. The station building has a fixed roof, so all the interior detail you carefully place, the ticket counter, the little coffee setup, ends up boxed in and hard to reach once construction is done. For a play set aimed at kids that is a real friction point, and reviewers flagged it too. The original price of 99.99 dollars also asked you to value the two vehicles and six minifigures as much as the building, because the station on its own is not enormous for the money. And a few longtime City fans grumbled that the train crew uniforms carry no printed logo, though I actually like that, since it makes the figures easy to reuse elsewhere in your city.

Who it's for

So who should get this one? If you already run a LEGO City train, I think this is close to a must-have, because it turns a loop of track into an actual destination with people, vehicles, and a reason for the train to stop. Kids who love build-and-play will get real mileage from the crossing, the bus routes, and the rail truck. The person I would gently steer away is the display-focused adult builder chasing intricate architecture, because the sealed roof and the City part palette mean this shines as a played-with hub rather than a shelf piece. Now that it has retired, prices have crept above the original RRP, so grab it if the collection calls for it.

The parts story

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

The build is classic modern City, which means it moves fast and stays fun without ever testing you. You knock out the two vehicles and the level crossing quickly, then settle into the station building, which is where most of the interesting sub-assemblies live. It is a satisfying couple of hours rather than a marathon, and it is pitched squarely at the 7-plus age range, so an experienced builder will breeze through while a younger one gets a genuine sense of accomplishment. The bus is the standout section to assemble, with its twin-door mechanism and lift-away roof coming together more cleverly than you expect from a City vehicle.

On parts, the headline is the new dark turquoise used on the train crew, a fresh color story for the 2022 City trains line that gives those figures a distinctive look. One printed head includes a hearing aid in the left ear, a small inclusive touch I always love spotting. You also get the level-crossing Road Plate and the track-compatible piece, both of which are the real value here because they physically connect this set into a wider City layout. It is not a set stuffed with rare AFOL-bait molds, but the door parts shared with the High-Speed Passenger Train and that turquoise recolor give it more personality than the piece count suggests.

Fun facts

01The set was released on August 1, 2022, with an original RRP of 99.99 dollars, and now trades above that on the secondary market since retiring.
02The bus shares its door pieces with the 2022 High-Speed Passenger Train, and reviewers rated it one of the finest LEGO City buses of its era.
03One minifigure's printed head shows a hearing aid in the left ear, part of LEGO's push for more inclusive character details.
04The dark turquoise train crew uniforms were a new color introduced for the 2022 City trains wave.