Norwest railway station

Norwest

Norwest Station worksite
Location Brookhollow Avenue, Baulkham Hills
New South Wales
Australia
Owned by Transport for New South Wales
Operated by Northwest Rapid Transit
Distance 26km from Chatswood
Platforms 2
Train operators Northwest Rapid Transit
Connections Bus
Construction
Structure type Underground
Bicycle facilities 30 spaces
Disabled access Yes
History
Opening Early 2019
Services

← Bella Vista · Showground →

Norwest is an underground rapid transit station being built by the Northwest Rapid Transit (NRT) consortium at Brookhollow Road, Baulkham Hills, 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] Norwest Station takes its name from the 172-hectare Norwest Business Park, in which it is located.

The NSW Government announced a future railway line to Castle Hill as part of its Action for Public Transport strategy in 1998.[3] A more specific but longer-term plan presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later included a 'Mungerie Park Line', with a station at Norwest Business Park.[4] In the years that followed, Norwest Station formed part of successive north-western rail proposals, including the Metropolitan Rail Expansion Plan in 2005 and a short-lived metro proposal in 2008.[5]

Following a change of government, work on the North West Rail Link commenced in 2013.[6] As part of the approved proposal, an additional station, Bella Vista, was added within the business park. The new station is currently under construction and is scheduled 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".
  6. ↑ Construction will soon begin on the North West Rail Link after tunnel contracts were awarded Daily Telegraph 25 June 2013
  7. ↑ Norwest Station Transport for NSW
  8. ↑ North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
  9. ↑ $8.3 billion North West Rail Link to open in late 2019 Transport for NSW 16 June 2013

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