Rouse Hill railway station

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Rouse Hill
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Rouse Hill station entrance, June 2019
General information
LocationTempus Street, Rouse Hill
New South Wales
Australia
Coordinates 33°41′29″S150°55′25″E / 33.691301°S 150.923669°E / -33.691301; 150.923669
Elevation12 m (39 ft) above ground level [1]
Owned by Transport Asset Holding Entity
Operated by Metro Trains Sydney
Distance32km from Chatswood
Platforms2
Connections TfNSW B.svg Bus
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Bicycle facilities40 spaces
AccessibleYes
History
Opened26 May 2019
Passengers
2023 [2]
  • 1,883,630 (year)
  • 5,161 (daily) [3] (Sydney Metro)
Services
Preceding station TfNSW M.svg Sydney Metro Following station
Tallawong
Terminus
Metro North West & Bankstown Line Kellyville
towards Sydenham
Future services
Tallawong
Terminus
Metro North West & Bankstown Line
(From 2025)
Kellyville
towards Bankstown

Rouse Hill railway station is an elevated Sydney Metro station on Tempus Street in Rouse Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The station serves the Metro North West & Bankstown Line and was built as part of the Sydney Metro Northwest project.

Contents

From 26 May 2019, Rouse Hill Station provides frequent train services to Chatswood. In August 2024, the Sydney Metro was extended from Chatswood to Sydenham via Sydney's CBD. Extension are under construction for trains to Bankstown by 2025 and proposed towards Marsden Park. [4] [5]

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. [6]

Entrance and ticket barriers Sydney Metro Rouse Hill Station16.jpg
Entrance and ticket barriers

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. [7] [8]

The 1998 plan listed the extension of the Castle Hill line to Rouse Hill as a priority for the decade 2010-20. [7] From then on, a Rouse Hill Station appeared in successive north-western rail proposals, including the "Long-Term Plan for Rail" in 2001, [9] 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. [10]

Design and construction

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Concourse

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. [11] [12] [13] [14]

The station is located just to the south of the Windsor Road rail bridge. This structure, a cable-stayed suspension bridge designed by Italian civil firm Salini Impregilo, is a visual icon for the district. [15] Both opened 26 May 2019.

Services

Platforms Sydney Metro Rouse Hill Station14.jpg
Platforms

Rouse Hill has two side platforms. It is served by Metro North West & Bankstown Line services. [11] [16] Rouse Hill station is served by a number of bus routes operated by Busways and CDC NSW. [17]

PlatformLineStopping patternNotes
1Services to Sydenham
2
M1
Services to Tallawong
External image
Searchtool.svg Rouse Hill Bus Guide by Transport for NSW

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