Cherrybrook railway station

Cherrybrook

Station under construction in August 2015
Location Castle Hill Road, Cherrybrook
New South Wales
Australia
Owned by RailCorp
Operated by Northwest Rapid Transit
Distance 19km from Chatswood
Platforms 2
Train operators Northwest Rapid Transit
Connections Bus
Construction
Structure type Open cut
Parking 400 bays
Bicycle facilities 40 bays
Disabled access Yes
History
Opening Early 2019
Services
Preceding station   Sydney Metro   Following station
Sydney Metro
Northwest
towards Chatswood

Cherrybrook is a rapid transit station being built by the Northwest Rapid Transit (NRT) consortium at Castle Hill Road, Cherrybrook, in Sydney, Australia. The station is being built as part of Transport for New South Wales's Sydney Metro Northwest project, to serve future train services to Rouse Hill and Chatswood. The station is planned to eventually serve trains to the Sydney central business district, Bankstown and Hurstville as part of the government's 20-year Sydney's Rail Future strategy.[1][2]

The NSW Government announced a future railway line through the Cherrybrook area, from Epping to Castle Hill, as part of its Action for Public Transport strategy in 1998. (The document did not specifically list any intermediate stations, however.)[3] A more specific but longer-term plan presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later listed possible stations at Koala Park, West Pennant Hills, and Highs Road, also in West Pennant Hills.[4]

In 2002, Transport Minister Carl Scully announced the notional Koala Park and Highs Road sites would be served by a single station at Franklin Road, Cherrybrook, to be called Franklin Road. This site faces Castle Hill Road, like its predecessors, and is roughly halfway between the two.[5] Franklin Road Station remained part of successive north-western rail proposals, including the Metropolitan Rail Expansion Strategy in 2005 and a short-lived metro proposal in 2008.

Following a change of government, work on the North West Rail Link commenced in 2013.[6] The station was renamed Cherrybrook in the final proposal. The new station is currently under construction and is expected to open in early 2019. The station will be operated by NRT, which was also responsible for the design of the station as part of its Operations, Trains and Systems contract with Transport for NSW.[7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Transport for New South Wales (June 2012). Sydney's rail future: modernising Sydney's trains (PDF).
  2. ↑ Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Archived September 17, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Sydney Metro June 2015
  3. ↑ New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
  4. ↑ Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term strategic plan for rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
  5. ↑ Office of the Minister for Transport (10 March 2002). "Media release: release of preferred route for the proposed rail link to for Sydney's north west". Archived from the original on 3 May 2005.
  6. ↑ Construction will soon begin on the North West Rail Link after tunnel contracts were awarded Daily Telegraph 25 June 2013
  7. ↑ Cherybrook station Transport for NSW
  8. ↑ North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Archived 2 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
  9. ↑ $8.3 billion North West Rail Link to open in late 2019 Archived 26 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Transport for NSW 16 June 2013

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