Ropes Creek, New South Wales

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Ropes Creek is a suburb of Sydney, Australia in Blacktown City Council. It is in Western Sydney just north of St Marys and is named after a nearby creek.

The area was the site of a World War 2 munitions area, now formerly known as Australian Defence Industries or (ADI). The current Government of New South Wales plans to open part of the site up to housing and the rest as a regional park. The area had its own railway line which was electrified in 1957. When the line first opened on the 1 May 1942, it only ran fron St Marys to Dunheved at a distance of 50.350 rail kilometres from Sydney and on the 29 June 1942 the line opened from Dunheved to Ropes Creek at 53.010 rail kilometres from Sydney.

When electrification was extended on the western line in the late 1950s a new station was was built and called Cochrane and was located 52.480 rail kilometres from Sydney. The station opened on the 2 September 1957. The line was mainly munitions traffic with morning and afternoon passenger services for muntions workers. Towards the end of the line being open, the only traffic seen on the line was the occasional scrap metal trains that visited Sims Metal which was located off the Up line just south of Dunheved. Working of these trains meant that the trains worked to Dunheved where the locomotive ran around the train and proceeded back to the Sims Metal Siding to shunt loaded cars in and empties out as required.

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