Burwood railway station, Sydney

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Burwood
Burwood railway station.jpg
Westbound view from Platform 4, October 2011
General information
LocationRailway Parade, Burwood
Coordinates 33°52′38″S151°06′16″E / 33.87729°S 151.10432°E / -33.87729; 151.10432
Owned by Transport Asset Holding Entity
Operated by Sydney Trains
Line(s) Main Suburban
Distance10.62 kilometres (6.60 mi) from Central
Platforms6 (2 side, 2 island)
Tracks6
ConnectionsBus
Construction
Structure typeElevated
AccessibleYes
Other information
Status
  • Weekdays:

Staffed: 24/7

  • Weekends and public holidays:
Staffed: 24/7
Station code BWD
Website Transport for NSW
History
Opened26 September 1855;168 years ago (1855-09-26)
Rebuilt13 March 1892
ElectrifiedYes
Passengers
2023 [1]
  • 11,211,850 (year)
  • 30,717 (daily) [2] (Sydney Trains, NSW TrainLink)
Services
Preceding station TfNSW T.png Sydney Trains Following station
Strathfield
One-way operation
North Shore & Western Line
(one weekday morning peak service)
Redfern
towards Berowra
Strathfield Inner West & Leppington Line Croydon
towards City Circle
Strathfield
towards Hornsby
Northern Line Redfern
towards Gordon
Official nameBurwood Railway Station group
TypeState heritage (complex / group)
Designated2 April 1999
Reference no.1106
TypeRailway Platform/ Station
CategoryTransport – Rail

Burwood railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Suburban line in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. The station is served by Sydney Trains T9 Northern line and T2 Inner West & Leppington line services.

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History

Sydney Railway Company opened the first railway line to Parramatta in 1855. The original Burwood station was a wooden platform near a level crossing over the grassy track that was Neich's Lane (later Burwood Road). This was beside the newly laid out township of Cheltenham. Access to public transport meant subdivision and consolidation followed, filling in the area between Parramatta Road and the Great Southern Road area which had previously been largely undeveloped woodlands. Burwood's population grew rapidly betweem 1874 and 1900, rising from 1200 to 7400 respectively, a rate of increase not matched since. [3] This was part of a trend that saw Australia's population swell from three to five million between 1889 and 1918. This triggered urgent demand for housing, with Burwood station becoming part of an integrated public transport system of trams, ferries and trams, supporting the development of urban sprawl. [3] [4]

Railway Station Group

Eastbound view from Platforms 5 Burwood railway station platforms 5 & 6.jpg
Eastbound view from Platforms 5
The concourse Burwood railway station concourse.jpg
The concourse

The original Burwood station opened on 26 September 1855 at a site at ground level on the west side of Burwood Road. [5] [6] [7] The station was relocated in 1892 to the current location on the east side of Burwood Road and along Railway Parade when the line was quadruplicated. The line through Burwood was sextuplicated in 1922, and a second subway was constructed at the eastern end of the station. [8] This subway closed after 1985. [3]

In 1869, a post office was situated at the railway station. Postal services were previously conducted through general stores. In 1886, a new building was erected at the railway station (this remains today) and in 1892, the present day Post Office, designed by W. L. Vernon, was opened. [9] [3]

The surviving building at No. 1 Railway Parade dates from 1886 and was built by the Railway Department fronting the down platform of the then Burwood Station as a Post & Telegraph Office. It survived in its original form until c.1894, when approximately 3/4 of the structure were removed from the southern side facing Railway Parade. It is the last remaining visible fabric of the second Burwood Railway Station which occupied the site immediately west of Burwood Road from 1878 to 1892. Its location coincides approximately with the site of an earlier station building which was erected in 1862 and demolished in 1878. The building is a rare surviving example of a purpose-built post office dating from the years when this facility was often closely associated with the spread and development of the state's railway network... Documentary evidence (historic measured surveys) show that the present building has a different footprint from that standing in 1890 and 1894. An examination of the fabric of the building provides clues to explaining that discrepancy. The present building was erected in 1886, not c.1880 or 1883 as claimed by others. It was purpose built by the Railway Department as a Post and Telegraph Office. Some time after 1894, the building was adapted for a new use as a Railway Goods Office; it may never have been used as a parcels office, even though it was so-named. The present building, and the associated crane and weighbridge, are considered to have local or possibly regional heritage significance. [3]

The four surviving elements in the Burwood Goods Yard – pillar crane, weighbridge, office and platform – are physical reminders of a typical small suburban goods yard at the turn of the 20th century. Few traces of such elements survive at other yards, most if not all of which, such as Petersham and Ashfield, have been closed to goods traffic. [3]

The surviving elements have the ability to be used in assisting in the interpretation of the many changes that have taken place to Burwood Railway Station since the opening of the first platform in 1855. [10] [3]

In April 1988, the goods siding to the south of the station was removed. [11]

In 2009–10, the station underwent a significant refurbishment to address high levels of congestion at times of high patronage. Work included an expanded concourse with extra ticket barriers, new toilets and lifts to the platforms. [12] The upgrade was completed in mid 2010.

Platforms and services

PlatformLineStopping patternNotes
1Peak hour services to Central (i, Platforms 1-12) [13]
2
T9
Peak hour services to Epping & Hornsby via Strathfield [13]
3
T9
services to Central & Gordon [13]
T1
one early morning weekday service to Berowra via Gordon [14]
4
T9
services to Epping & Hornsby via Strathfield [13]
5
T2
services to Central & the City Circle [15]
6
T2
services to Homebush, Parramatta & Leppington [15]

Description

The complex comprises a brick in subway booking office, completed in 1892; and a brick parcels office that previously served as a railway post office, erected c.1880. [3] [16]

Other structures include a brick pedestrian subway and steps; a 5-tonne (6-short-ton; 5-long-ton) jib crane; and a weighbridge, from Goulburn. [3]

Transit Systems operates 16 bus routes via Burwood station, under contract to Transport for NSW:

Burwood station is served by three NightRide routes:

Heritage listing

As at 24 November 2000, Burwood is a major suburban site with some significant structures dating from the 1880 period when the railway crossed Burwood Rd by a level crossing. The small former railway post office is a rare surviving example of this type of structure. The Parcels Office is also of significance because it shows the original earlier platform alignment on which the tracks were located and the changes with the upgrading of the line through that area in 1892. [3]

Burwood railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria. [3]

The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

This item is assessed as historically rare. This item is assessed as scientifically rare. This item is assessed as arch. rare. This item is assessed as socially rare. [3]

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