Bella Vista railway station
Bella Vista | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Station entrance and platforms, June 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Lexington Drive, Bella Vista New South Wales Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°43′46″S 150°56′37″E / 33.729580°S 150.943535°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 6 m (20 ft) below ground level[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Transport Asset Holding Entity | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 28km from Chatswood | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Bus | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Open cut | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 800 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 30 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 26 May 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023[3] |
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Bella Vista railway station is a Sydney Metro station on the western edge of the Norwest Business Park in Sydney, Australia. The station serves the Metro North West & Bankstown Line and was built as part of the Sydney Metro Northwest project. 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]
History
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The NSW Government announced a future railway line to Castle Hill, south-east of Bella Vista, as part of its Action for Public Transport strategy in 1998. Bella Vista was to be served by a bus rapid transit connection to the new rail terminus.[6] A longer-term plan presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later included a 'Mungerie Park Line', with a station at Burns Road (now called Memorial Avenue) in Kellyville – about one kilometre north of the present Bella Vista Station site.[7] In the years that followed, Burns Road 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]
Burns Road opened as a North West T-way bus station in 2007.[9]
Work on the North West Rail Link got underway with the election of the O'Farrell Government in 2011. As part of the approved proposal, Burns Road Station was replaced with new stops at Lexington Drive, Bella Vista, to the south and Samantha Riley Drive, Kellyville, to the north. The new station 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.[10][11][12]
Services
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Bella Vista has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Metro North West & Bankstown Line services.[10][13] Bella Vista station is served by bus route 745 to Glenwood, Stanhope Gardens, Quakers Hill and St Marys, operated by Busways, whilst CDC NSW services to Sydney CBD, North Sydney and Parramatta operate from Celebration T-way.[14]
| Platform | Line | Stopping pattern | Notes |
| 1 | Services to Sydenham | ||
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| 2 | Services to Tallawong |
| External image | |
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 Bella Vista Bus Guide by Transport for NSW |
References
[edit]- ^ Sydney Metro. "Interactive map". Sydney Metro. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ This figure is the number of entries and exits of a year combined averaged to a day.
- ^ "Train Station Monthly Usage". Open Data. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ Transport for New South Wales (June 2012). Sydney's rail future: modernising Sydney's trains (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2014.
- ^ Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Archived 17 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Sydney Metro June 2015
- ^ New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
- ^ Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term strategic plan for rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Besser, Linton (12 April 2007). "Priority bus green lights scrapped". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ a b Bella Vista Station Sydney Metro - Transport for NSW
- ^ North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Archived 2 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
- ^ $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
- ^ "M1: Metro North West line timetable". Transport for NSW.
- ^ Bella Vista Station Transport for NSW
External links
[edit]- Bella Vista Station description at Sydney Metro Northwest project website
- Northwest Rapid Transit corporate website
- Bella Vista Station details Transport for New South Wales (Archived 15 June 2019)