Victoria Cross metro station

Not to be confused with Victoria Street railway station, New South Wales.

Victoria Cross
Station entrance from Miller Street South, August 2024
General information
Location	Miller Street, North Sydney Australia
Coordinates	33°50′14″S151°12′27″E / 33.8372415°S 151.2075279°E / -33.8372415; 151.2075279
Owned by	New South Wales Government via Transport Asset Manager of New South Wales
Operated by	Metro Trains Sydney
Line(s)	Metro North West & Bankstown Line
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Connections	North Sydney Bus
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	Open
Website	www.sydneymetro.info
History
Opened	19 August 2024
Electrified	Yes
Services
Preceding station Sydney Metro Following station Crows Nest towards Tallawong Metro North West & Bankstown Line Barangaroo towards Sydenham Future services Crows Nest towards Tallawong Metro North West & Bankstown Line (From 2025) Barangaroo towards Bankstown
Location

Victoria Cross railway station is an underground Sydney Metro station located beneath the central business district of North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station is served by the Metro North West & Bankstown Line. It opened on 19 August 2024.

History

A station at Victoria Cross was proposed in 2001 as part of Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie's Strategic Plan for Rail, as a stop for trains travelling to the north-west, Northern Beaches, Cronulla and Macarthur. The new station, a block away from the existing station in Blue Street, was designed to take pressure off the constrained interchange, which dates from 1932. ^[1] The Government of New South Wales incorporated many of Christie's ideas in its Metropolitan Rail Expansion Program (MREP) in 2005, including Victoria Cross station as part of a future Redfern to Chatswood railway line. When the MREP was cancelled in 2008, the idea of a station at Victoria Cross was dropped as well.

The concept of a Redfern to Chatswood line was partially revived by the NSW Government as part of the Sydney's Rail Future plan in 2012, this time as a metro stop. A detailed concept plan, including a station at Victoria Cross, went on public exhibition in 2015. The station entrance is on the eastern side of Miller Street between Berry and Mount streets. ^[2]

In June 2017, changes were announced, including an additional station entrance on McLaren Street. The second entrance is notable for being the first lift-only entrance to a passenger train station in Australia, and consists of four lifts capable of carrying 27 people each. ^[3]

The station opened on 19 August 2024. ^[4]

Platforms and services

Platform	Line	Stopping pattern	Notes
1	M1	Services to Sydenham	[5]
2	M1	Services to Tallawong	[5]

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  Platforms
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  Concourse
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  Walkway

References

1. Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term Strategic Plan for Rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
2. "Sydney Metro City & Southwest". Transport for NSW . June 2015. Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
3. O'Sullivan, Matt (11 July 2017). "Lift-only station entrance planned for Sydney's new $20 billion Metro train line". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 22 September 2017.
4. Sydney Metro line between Chatswood and Sydenham to open Monday, August 19 ABC News 15 August 2024
5. "M1: Metro North West line timetable". Transport for NSW.

External links

Media related to Victoria Cross railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Victoria Cross station Sydney Metro