Barangaroo railway station

Barangaroo
Location Hickson Road, Barangaroo
Coordinates 33°51′51.297″S 151°12′2.512″E / 33.86424917°S 151.20069778°E / -33.86424917; 151.20069778Coordinates: 33°51′51.297″S 151°12′2.512″E / 33.86424917°S 151.20069778°E / -33.86424917; 151.20069778
Owned by RailCorp
Operated by Northwest Rapid Transit
Line(s) Sydney Metro City & Southwest
Platforms 2
Tracks 2
Connections Bus, Train (Wynyard)
Construction
Structure type Underground
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Status Proposed
Website www.sydneymetro.info
History
Opening Scheduled for 2024
Electrified Yes
Services
Preceding station   Sydney Metro   Following station
towards Chatswood
City and Southwest
towards Bankstown

Barangaroo railway station is a proposed underground rapid transit station for the inner-city Barangaroo precinct in Sydney, Australia. The proposal, announced in 2015, forms part of Transport for New South Wales's Sydney Metro City & Southwest scheme and would make Barangaroo the first stop for southbound metro trains in the central business district (CBD).[1][2]

While plans for a harbour rail tunnel have been government policy for more than a decade, neither the 2005 Metropolitan Rail Expansion (MREP) and 2012 Sydney's Rail Future strategies envisaged the new line stopping at Barangaroo.[3][4] The various metro rail proposals of 2008–10, which involved lines running west from the CBD towards Rozelle and the northern suburbs, would have included a station between Wynyard and Barangaroo. These proposals were shelved in 2010, however.[5][6] The government also considered a light rail line from Central to Barangaroo via Sussex Street and Hickson Road, but nothing came of this proposal.

With the first buildings at Barangaroo opening in 2015 and no mass transit construction imminent, Transport for NSW instead began work on the Wynyard Walk: a pedestrian tunnel to connect Wynyard station and the new precinct. The walkway was opened in September 2016.[7]

In 2015, Premier Mike Baird announced the government's intention to divert the second harbour rail crossing via Barangaroo to allow a station to be built there.[2]

References

  1. ↑ New underground Sydney Metro station at Barangaroo Sydney Metro 23 June 2015
  2. 1 2 NSW budget 2015: Barangaroo station to be announced by Baird government Sydney Morning Herald 23 June 2015
  3. ↑ The state plan: a new direction for New South Wales. 2006.
  4. ↑ Sydney's rail future. 2012.
  5. ↑ "Premier Iemma unveils Sydney's first Euro-style metro rail project" (PDF). Premier of New South Wales Department. 18 March 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2008.
  6. ↑ "Keneally scraps CBD Metro plans". ABC News. 22 February 2010.
  7. ↑ "Wynyard Walk connecting Sydney CBD to Barangaroo opens". ABC News. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
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