Bella Vista | |||||||||||
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Location | Lexington Drive, Bella Vista New South Wales Australia | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°43′46″S150°56′37″E / 33.729580°S 150.943535°E | ||||||||||
Elevation | 6 m (20 ft) below ground level [1] | ||||||||||
Owned by | Transport Asset Holding Entity | ||||||||||
Operated by | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||
Distance | 28km from Chatswood | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Train operators | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||
Connections | Bus | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Open cut | ||||||||||
Parking | 800 spaces | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 30 spaces | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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Fare zone | Opal | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 26 May 2019 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2023 [2] |
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Bella Vista railway station is a Sydney Metro station on the western edge of the Norwest Business Park in Sydney, Australia. The station serves the Metro North West Line and was built as part of the Sydney Metro Northwest project. 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. [4] [5]
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. [6] 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. [7] 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. [8]
Burns Road opened as a North West T-way bus station in 2007. [9]
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 opened to passengers 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]
Bella Vista has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Metro North West Line services. [10] [13] Bella Vista station is served by bus route 745 to Glenwood, Stanhope Gardens, Quakers Hill and St Marys, operated by Busways, whilst CDC NSW services to Sydney CBD, North Sydney and Parramatta operate from Celebration T-way. [14]
Platform | Line | Stopping pattern | Notes |
1 | Services to Chatswood Interchange | ||
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2 | Services to Tallawong |
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Bella Vista Bus Guide by Transport for NSW |
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