Cherrybrook metro station is a station on the Sydney Metro network's North West & Bankstown Line, located along Castle Hill Road in the Hornsby Shire suburb of Cherrybrook, New South Wales. The station has since started serving trains to the Sydney central business district and will extend to Bankstown as part of the government's 20-year Sydney's Rail Future strategy.Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Sydney Metro June 2015
History
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.) 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 West Pennant Hills.
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. 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.Construction will soon begin on the North West Rail Link after tunnel contracts were awarded Daily Telegraph 25 June 2013 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.Cherybrook station Sydney Metro - Transport for NSWNorth West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Transport for NSW 18 December 2013$8.3 billion North West Rail Link to open in late 2019 Transport for NSW 16 June 2013
Services Cherrybrook has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Metro North West & Bankstown Line services. Cherrybrook station is served by a number of bus routes operated by CDC NSW.Cherrybrook Station Transport for NSW
References
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)