Cherrybrook railway station

Cherrybrook railway station is a station on the Sydney Metro network's North West & Bankstown Line, located along the Castle Hill Road in the suburb of Cherrybrook, New South Wales. 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]

Cherrybrook
Station building and entrance from Castle Hill Road, June 2019
General information
Location	Castle Hill Road, Cherrybrook New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	33°44′11″S 151°01′54″E
Elevation	7 m (23 ft) below ground level [1]
Owned by	Transport Asset Holding Entity
Operated by	Metro Trains Sydney
Distance	19km from Chatswood
Platforms	2
Train operators	Metro Trains Sydney
Connections	Bus
Construction
Structure type	Open cut
Parking	400 bays
Bicycle facilities	40 bays
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	26 May 2019
Passengers
2023[2]	1,820,460 (year) 4,988 (daily)[3] (Sydney Metro)
Services
Preceding station Sydney Metro Following station Castle Hill towards Tallawong Metro North West & Bankstown Line Epping towards Sydenham Future services Castle Hill towards Tallawong Metro North West & Bankstown Line (From 2025) Epping towards Bankstown

History

Bradfield Parade entrance

The NSW Government announced a future railway line through the Cherrybrook area, from Epping to Castle Hill, as part of its Action for Public Transport strategy in 1998. (The document did not specifically list any intermediate stations, however.)^[6] A more specific but longer-term plan, presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later, listed possible stations at Koala Park, West Pennant Hills, and Highs Road, also in the West Pennant Hills.^[7]

In 2002, Transport Minister Carl Scully announced that the notional Koala Park and Highs Road sites would be served by a single station at Franklin Road, Cherrybrook, to be called Franklin Road. This site faces Castle Hill Road, like its predecessors, and is roughly halfway between the two.^[8] Franklin Road Station remained part of successive north-western rail proposals, including the Metropolitan Rail Expansion Strategy in 2005 and a short-lived metro proposal in 2008.

Following a change of government, work on the Sydney Metro Northwest commenced in 2013.^[9] The station was renamed Cherrybrook Station (Government Land) in the final proposal. The new station opened 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]

Services

Platforms

Cherrybrook has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Metro North West & Bankstown Line services.^[10][13] Cherrybrook station is served by a number of bus routes operated by CDC NSW.^[14]

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

References

1. Sydney Metro. "Interactive Map". Sydney Metro. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
2. "Train Station Monthly Usage". Open Data. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
3. This figure is the number of entries and exits of a year combined averaged to a day.
4. Transport for NSW (June 2012). Sydney's rail future: modernising Sydney's trains (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2014.
5. Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Archived September 17, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Sydney Metro June 2015
6. New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
7. Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term strategic plan for rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
8. Office of the Minister for Transport (10 March 2002). "Media release: release of preferred route for the proposed rail link to for Sydney's north west". Archived from the original on 2 May 2005.
9. Construction will soon begin on the North West Rail Link after tunnel contracts were awarded Daily Telegraph 25 June 2013
10. Cherybrook station Sydney Metro - Transport for NSW
11. North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Archived 2 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
12. $8.3 billion North West Rail Link to open in late 2019 Archived 26 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine Transport for NSW 16 June 2013
13. "M1: Metro North West line timetable". Transport for NSW.
14. Cherrybrook Station Transport for NSW

External links

• Cherrybrook Station description at Sydney Metro Northwest project website
• Northwest Rapid Transit corporate website
• Cherrybrook Station details Transport for New South Wales (Archived 18 June 2019)