Kellyville railway station

Kellyville

Kellyville Station worksite, viewed from adjacent North West T-way
Location Samantha Riley Drive, Kellyville
New South Wales
Australia
Owned by Transport for New South Wales
Operated by Northwest Rapid Transit
Distance 30km from Chatswood
Platforms 2
Train operators Northwest Rapid Transit
Connections Bus
Construction
Structure type Elevated
Parking 1,200 spaces
Bicycle facilities 45 spaces
Disabled access Yes
History
Opening Early 2019
Services

← Rouse Hill · Bella Vista →

Kellyville is an elevated Sydney Metro Northwest station being built by Impregilo-Salini and Northwest Rapid Transit (NRT) for Transport for New South Wales at Samantha Riley Drive, Kellyville, in Sydney, Australia. Train services from the station will run initially to Rouse Hill and Chatswood, with an expected journey time to Chatswood of around 33 minutes. As the New South Wales Government's Sydney's Rail Future strategy is delivered over the next 20 years, services are expected to be extended to the Sydney central business district (CBD), Bankstown and Hurstville. Kellyville Station is planned to open in 2019.[1][2]

History

Kellyville, on Sydney's rural fringes, was not considered suitable for new suburban development until 1988, when then Planning Minister Bob Carr abandoned the state's long-standing policy of concentrating new development along existing rail corridors. Instead, the government green-lit development in the area on the proviso that a corridor be preserved for mass transit to be built in future.[3] This corridor, which runs beside Old Windsor Road, was announced as the alignment for the North West T-way, a new bus rapid transit line 10 years later[4] and construction began in 2004. Kellyville's three T-way stations – known as Riley, Burns and Balmoral – opened in March 2007, providing commuters with fast bus access from Kellyville to the Parramatta CBD.[5] Commuters travelling to the Sydney CBD, however, needed to catch buses along the M2 Hills Motorway and congested Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The Government's 1998 plan also envisaged a future rail line to the Hills District, but only as far as Castle Hill.[4] Following dire warnings from the state's most senior rail bureaucrat about a looming capacity crunch on the rail system, a new "North West Rail Link" (NWRL) was proposed in 2005, featuring a station for Kellyville at the corner of Old Windsor and Burns roads – the site of the Burns T-way station, then under construction. A Burns Road Station remained government policy even when the NWRL was dumped in favour of the North West Metro proposal in 2008. The 2009 version of plan featured two stations, one at Burns Road, called Kellyville, and a second at Samantha Riley Drive.[6]

Design and construction

The Australian Labor Party was heavily defeated at the 2011 state election in part because of its tendency to announce, cancel and re-announce transport projects.[7] The incoming Liberal/Nationals government, led by Barry O'Farrell, had put a promise to build the NWRL at the centre of their election platform. During consultation and detailed design, it was decided that Burns Road would be replaced with two stations: Bella Vista, on the edge of the giant Norwest Business Park, and Kellyville. Kellyville Station would be built on a new railway viaduct (dubbed the "skytrain") above the existing Riley T-way station.

As part of the project's public–private partnership delivery model, a consortium was chosen to operate the stations and trains. To ensure that the stations were designed to be maintainable and with customer service in mind, the operator would also be responsible for designing and building the station buildings. (An Italian joint venture, Impregilo-Salini, was chosen to build the viaduct as part of a separate $340 million contract.) The successful "Operations, Trains and Stations" tenderer, NRT, includes MTR Corporation, which designed, built and operates the stations on the Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong.[8][9][10]

Work on the new station began in June 2014.[11] The NWRL was rebranded Sydney Metro Northwest the following year.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Transport for New South Wales (June 2012). Sydney's rail future: modernising Sydney's trains (PDF).
  2. ↑ Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Sydney Metro June 2015
  3. ↑ Department of Environment and Planning (1988). Sydney Into Its Third Century: Metropolitan Strategy for the Sydney Region. Sydney.
  4. 1 2 New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
  5. ↑ Besser, Linton (12 April 2007). "Priority bus green lights scrapped". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  6. ↑ Sydney Metro Authority (December 2009). Sydney's metro network: priorities for shaping Sydney's growth.
  7. ↑ Clune, David (2012). "Why Labor lost". In David Clune and Rodney Smith. From Carr to Keneally: Labor in office in NSW 1995-2011. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  8. ↑ Norwest Station Transport for NSW
  9. ↑ North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
  10. ↑ $8.3 billion North West Rail Link to open in late 2019 Transport for NSW 16 June 2013
  11. ↑ Storey, Rachael (18 June 2014). "Media release: skytrain construction begins as North West Rail Link investment hits $5 billion over four years".

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