Victoria Cross railway station
Victoria Cross | |
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| Location |
North Sydney New South Wales Australia |
| Owned by | RailCorp |
| Operated by | Northwest Rapid Transit |
| Train operators | Northwest Rapid Transit |
| Connections | Bus |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Underground |
| Disabled access | Yes |
| History | |
| Opening | 2024 |
| Services | |
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Victoria Cross is a proposed underground rapid transit station, to be located beneath the North Sydney central business district. The station forms part of Transport for New South Wales' Sydney Metro City & Southwest scheme. It is expected to open in 2024.
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 NSW Government 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.[2]
References
- ↑ Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term Strategic Plan for Rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
- ↑ Transport for New South Wales (June 2015). "Sydney Metro City & Southwest".
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