Castle Hill | |||||||||||
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Location | Old Castle Hill Road, Castle Hill New South Wales Australia | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°43′54″S151°00′27″E / 33.731601°S 151.007372°E | ||||||||||
Elevation | 25 m (82 ft) below ground level [1] | ||||||||||
Owned by | Transport Asset Holding Entity | ||||||||||
Operated by | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||
Distance | 21km from Chatswood | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Train operators | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||
Connections | Bus | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 20 spaces | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 26 May 2019 [2] | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2023 [3] |
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Castle Hill railway station is an underground Sydney Metro station in Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The station, located opposite the Castle Towers shopping centre, was built as part of the Sydney Metro Northwest project, to serve train services to Rouse Hill and Chatswood. 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. [5] [6]
The NSW Government announced a future railway line from Epping to Castle Hill as part of its Action for Public Transport strategy in 1998. [7] In the years that followed, Castle Hill 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]
Work on the North West Rail Link got underway with the election of the O'Farrell Government in 2011. The new station was 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. [9] [10] [11]
To make way for the construction of the station, part of Old Northern Road was converted into a bus-only region, and the underground pedestrian tunnel to Castle Towers opened on 5 December 2019, in conjunction with the mall's expansion. [12] [13]
Castle Hill has two platforms and two crossovers, which can be used to terminate westbound trains on either platform if there is a problem on the line. It is served by Metro North West Line services. [9] [14] Castle Hill station is served by a number of bus routes operated by Busways and CDC NSW. [15]
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Platform | Line | Stopping pattern | Notes |
1 | services to Chatswood | ||
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2 | services to Tallawong |
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Castle Hills Bus Guide by Transport for NSW |
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