Thornton is a suburb in the City of Maitland,
New South Wales, Australia. Thornton is
bisected by the New England Highway.

Post code 2322, including Thornton, Beresfield,
Tarro and Hexham, had a population of 14,654
in 2001.

Thornton is serviced by Hunter Line trains of the
NSW TrainLink network. Regular services take
passengers East to Newcastle (18 minutes for
the express) and West to Maitland. Less regular
services also take passengers West to the
Hunter Valley as far as Scone and North to
Dungog.

Thornton is the junction for a colliery branch
line leading to the Bloomfield Coal Loop,
a balloon loop.

A new industrial estate and increased
residential subdivisions resulted in the RTA
planning a major upgrade to the Weakleys
Drive intersection, which was completed as of
December 2008. DBT (Australia) opened
their new complex here in December 2006.