Cherrybrook metro station
Sydney Metro station
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Cherrybrook Metro Station is a station on the Sydney Metro network's North West & Bankstown Line, located along Castle Hill Road in the Hornsby Shire suburb of Cherrybrook, New South Wales. The station has since started serving trains to the Sydney central business district and will extend to Bankstown as part of the government's 20-year Sydney's Rail Future strategy.[4][5]
New South Wales
Australia
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Station building and entrance from Castle Hill Road, June 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Castle Hill Road, Cherrybrook New South Wales Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°44′11″S 151°01′54″E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 7 m (23 ft) below ground level[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | New South Wales Government via Transport Asset Manager of New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 19 kilometres (12 mi) from Chatswood | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Bus | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Open cut | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 400 bays | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 40 bays | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 26 May 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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History
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.)[6] 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.[7]
In 2002, Transport Minister Carl Scully announced that 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.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10][11][12]
