Bella Vista railway station
Bella Vista | |
|---|---|
 Bella Vista Station worksite | |
| Location |
Lexington Drive, Bella Vista New South Wales Australia |
| Owned by | Transport for New South Wales |
| Operated by | Northwest Rapid Transit |
| Distance | 28km from Chatswood |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Train operators | Northwest Rapid Transit |
| Connections | Bus |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Open cut |
| Parking | 800 spaces |
| Bicycle facilities | 30 spaces |
| Disabled access | Yes |
| History | |
| Opening | Early 2019 |
| Services | |
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← Kellyville · Norwest → | |
Bella Vista is a rapid transit station being built by the Northwest Rapid Transit (NRT) consortium at Lexington Drive, Bella Vista, on the western edge of the Norwest Business Park 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 to Castle Hill, south-east of Bella Vista, as part of its Action for Public Transport strategy in 1998. Bella Vista was to be served by a bus rapid transit connection to the new rail terminus.[3] A longer-term plan presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later included a 'Mungerie Park Line', with a station at Burns Road (now called Memorial Avenue) in Kellyville – about one kilometre north of the present Bella Vista Station site.[4] In the years that followed, Burns Road 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]
Burns Road opened as a North West T-way bus station in 2007.[6]
Work on the North West Rail Link got underway with the election of the O'Farrell Government in 2011. As part of the approved proposal, Burns Road Station was replaced with new stops at Lexington Drive, Bella Vista, to the south and Samantha Riley Drive, Kellyville, to the north. The new station is currently under construction and is expected to open to passengers 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
- ↑ Transport for New South Wales (June 2012). Sydney's rail future: modernising Sydney's trains (PDF).
- ↑ Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Sydney Metro June 2015
- ↑ New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
- ↑ Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term strategic plan for rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ Besser, Linton (12 April 2007). "Priority bus green lights scrapped". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ↑ Norwest Station Transport for NSW
- ↑ North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
- ↑ $8.3 billion North West Rail Link to open in late 2019 Transport for NSW 16 June 2013
External links
- Bella Vista Station description at Sydney Metro Northwest project website
- Northwest Rapid Transit corporate website