Cherrybrook railway station

Cherrybrook railway station is a rapid transit station built by the Metro Trains Sydney consortium at Castle Hill Road, Cherrybrook, in Sydney, Australia. The station was built as part of Transport for NSW'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 and Bankstown as part of the government's 20-year Sydney's Rail Future strategy.[2][3]

Cherrybrook
Station building from Castle Hill Road in June 2019
LocationCastle Hill Road, Cherrybrook
New South Wales
Australia
Coordinates33°44′11″S 151°01′54″E
Elevation7 m (23 ft) below ground level [1]
Owned byRailCorp
Operated byMetro Trains Sydney
Distance19km from Chatswood
Platforms2
Train operatorsMetro Trains Sydney
ConnectionsBus
Construction
Structure typeOpen cut
Parking400 bays
Bicycle facilities40 bays
Disabled accessYes
History
Opened26 May 2019
Services
Preceding station   Sydney Metro   Following station
Castle Hill
towards Tallawong
M
Metro North West Line
towards Chatswood

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.)[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] 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 Sydney Metro Northwest commenced in 2013.[7] The station was renamed Cherrybrook Station (Government Land) in the final proposal. The new station opened 26 May 2019. The station is operated by Metro Trains Sydney, which was also responsible for the design of the station as part of its Operations, Trains and Systems contract with Transport for NSW.[8][9][10]

Services

Cherrybrook has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Metro North West Line services.[8][11] Cherrybrook station is served by a number of bus routes operated by Hillsbus.[12]

Platform Line Stopping pattern Notes
1 Services to Chatswood
2 Services to Tallawong

References
  1. Sydney Metro. "Interactive Map". Sydney Metro. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  2. Transport for NSW (June 2012). Sydney's rail future: modernising Sydney's trains (PDF).
  3. Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Archived September 17, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Sydney Metro June 2015
  4. New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
  5. Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term strategic plan for rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
  6. 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.
  7. Construction will soon begin on the North West Rail Link after tunnel contracts were awarded Daily Telegraph 25 June 2013
  8. Cherybrook station Sydney Metro - Transport for NSW
  9. North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Archived 2 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
  10. $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
  11. "M: Metro North West line timetable". Transport for NSW.
  12. Cherrybrook Station Transport for NSW
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