Rouse Hill railway station
Rouse Hill | |
|---|---|
 Rouse Hill Station worksite, adjacent to North West T-way | |
| Location |
Tempus Street, Rouse Hill New South Wales Australia |
| Owned by | Transport for New South Wales |
| Operated by | Northwest Rapid Transit |
| Distance | 32km from Chatswood |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Train operators | Northwest Rapid Transit |
| Connections | Bus |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Elevated |
| Bicycle facilities | 40 spaces |
| Disabled access | Yes |
| History | |
| Opening | Early 2019 |
| Services | |
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Rouse Hill is an elevated rapid transit station being built by the Northwest Rapid Transit (NRT) consortium at the Rouse Hill Town Centre in Sydney, Australia. The project forms part of Transport for New South Wales's $8.3 billion Sydney Metro Northwest scheme. Rouse Hill Station will be one of two new metro stops in the suburb: the other, Cudgegong Road, is being built a few kilometres to the west.
From 2019, Rouse Hill Station will provide frequent train services to Chatswood. In later years, as the metro network expands, the Government intends to run trains to the Sydney central business district, Bankstown, Marsden Park and Hurstville.[1][2]
Background
Then-rural Rouse Hill was identified by Sydney's 1988 metropolitan strategy, Sydney Into Its Third Century, as an area for future development. Under the previous 1968 strategy, new Western Sydney suburbs could only be formed within the broad corridors formed by the suburban rail system. In approving Sydney Into Its Third Century, Planning Minister Bob Carr abolished this guideline: henceforth new areas such as Rouse Hill could be developed far from rail lines, provided space was left for future transport infrastructure.[3]
A decade later, as the region began to grow, Carr had risen to become premier, and sought solutions to the new suburbs' transport problems. The Government's public transport strategy, Action for Transport 2010, released in 1998, proposed a new railway line from the existing suburban network at Epping to Castle Hill. From Castle Hill, the plan said, passengers would change onto a new bus rapid transit system, to be built using the district's hitherto-vacant transport corridors. Both the Castle Hill rail and busway projects were promised for 2010: only the busway eventuated, and only in part.[4][5]
The 1998 plan listed the extension of the Castle Hill line to Rouse Hill as a priority for the decade 2010-20.[4] From then on, a Rouse Hill Station appeared in successive north-western rail proposals, including the "Long-Term Plan for Rail" in 2001,[6] the Metropolitan Rail Expansion Plan in 2005, and a short-lived metro proposal in 2008. As of 2011, nothing had been built besides the Rouse Hill to Parramatta section of the busway network.
Following a change of government, work on the North West Rail Link commenced in 2013.[7]
Design and construction
Under its $3.7 billion "Operations, Trains and Systems" contract with Transport for NSW, NRT is responsible for the design, construction, fit-out and operation of the new station.[8][9][10][11]
The station will be located just to the south of the proposed Old Windsor Road rail bridge. This structure, a cable-stayed suspension bridge designed by Italian civil firm Salini Impregilo, is intended to become a visual icon for the district.[12] Both are expected to open in 2019.
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
- ↑ Department of Environment and Planning (1988). Sydney Into Its Third Century: Metropolitan Strategy for the Sydney Region. Sydney.
- 1 2 New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
- ↑ ComfortDelGro Cabcharge, Hillsbus Service Update: Routes T63, T64, T65 and 610", 25 September 2007. Accessed 26 September 2007.
- ↑ Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term strategic plan for rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
- ↑ Construction will soon begin on the North West Rail Link after tunnel contracts were awarded Daily Telegraph 25 June 2013
- ↑ Cherybrook 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
- ↑ "North West Rail Link: Operations Trains and Systems PPP (Package 3)".
- ↑ Saulwick, Jacob (2 June 2015). "North West Rail Link: Costs blow out on Sydney's biggest public transport project".