Chester Hill railway station, Sydney

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Chester Hill
Bankstown Line
Inner West Line
Station code	CHH
Suburb	Chester Hill
Street(s)	Chester Hill Rd
Distance from Central Station	22.31 km
Altitude (above sea level)	? m
Types of stopping trains	Suburban all stops
Number of platforms	2
Number of tracks	2
Platform arrangement	1 Island
Type of station	Ground
Ticket barriers	No
Transfers available	Bus
Disabled access	No
Station facilities	Link

Chester Hill is a railway station on the CityRail network, which serves the suburb of Chester Hill.

It has an island platform, built with the opening of the line. The line is an important freight corridor, and under the Southern Sydney Freight Line project a third track will be built by 2008 to carry freight trains separately from the passenger lines.

Contents 1 Platforms/Service 2 Accessibility 3 Galley 4 Transport Links 5 Trackplan

[edit] Platforms/Service

The station is served by 2 trains per hour on the Inner West line during peak hours and at night, and 2 trains per hour on the Bankstown line, making 4 trains per hour during peak hours and at night, and 2 trains per hour outside these hours. These services are not necessarily evenly spaced. There are additional train in peak hours.

Platform 1:

• Bankstown Line - all stations and limited stops services to Bankstown, Central and the City Circle.
• Inner West Line - all stations services to Lidcombe, Central and the City Circle (clockwise).

Platform 2:

• Bankstown Line - all stations and limited stops services to Liverpool.
• Inner West Line - all stations services to Liverpool.

[edit] Accessibility

The station has an overhead footbridge connected to the platforms by stairs. Thus the station does not qualify as having Easy Access for wheelchairs.

[edit] Galley

Entrance

Platform

[edit] Transport Links

Veolia Transport runs two routes via Chester Hill railway station:

• Route 911 - Between Auburn and Bankstown.
• Route 916 - to Guildford.

NightRide runs one route via Chester Hill railway station:

• Route N50 - Between Liverpool and City(Town Hall).

[edit] Trackplan

Preceding Station (inbound)	Line	Following Station (outbound)
Sefton	Bankstown Line	Leightonfield
Sefton	Inner West Line	Leightonfield

• Chester Hill railway station, Sydney is at coordinates 33°53′01″S 150°59′58″E / -33.883500, 150.999385 (Chester Hill railway station, Sydney)Coordinates: 33°53′01″S 150°59′58″E / -33.883500, 150.999385 (Chester Hill railway station, Sydney)