Barangaroo railway station
Barangaroo | |||||||||||
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| Location | Hickson Road, Barangaroo | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°51′51.297″S 151°12′2.512″E / 33.86424917°S 151.20069778°ECoordinates: 33°51′51.297″S 151°12′2.512″E / 33.86424917°S 151.20069778°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RailCorp | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Northwest Rapid Transit | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Sydney Metro City & Southwest | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, Train (Wynyard) | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Status | Proposed | ||||||||||
| Website | www.sydneymetro.info | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opening | Scheduled for 2024 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
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Barangaroo railway station is a proposed underground rapid transit station for the inner-city Barangaroo precinct in Sydney, Australia. The proposal, announced in 2015, forms part of Transport for New South Wales's Sydney Metro City & Southwest scheme and would make Barangaroo the first stop for southbound metro trains in the central business district (CBD).[1][2]
While plans for a harbour rail tunnel have been government policy for more than a decade, neither the 2005 Metropolitan Rail Expansion (MREP) and 2012 Sydney's Rail Future strategies envisaged the new line stopping at Barangaroo.[3][4] The various metro rail proposals of 2008–10, which involved lines running west from the CBD towards Rozelle and the northern suburbs, would have included a station between Wynyard and Barangaroo. These proposals were shelved in 2010, however.[5][6] The government also considered a light rail line from Central to Barangaroo via Sussex Street and Hickson Road, but nothing came of this proposal.
With the first buildings at Barangaroo opening in 2015 and no mass transit construction imminent, Transport for NSW instead began work on the Wynyard Walk: a pedestrian tunnel to connect Wynyard station and the new precinct. The walkway was due to open in 2015,[7] but as of March 2016, works were still continuing.[8]
In 2015, Premier Mike Baird announced the government's intention to divert the second harbour rail crossing via Barangaroo to allow a station to be built there.[2]
References
- ↑ New underground Sydney Metro station at Barangaroo Sydney Metro 23 June 2015
- 1 2 NSW budget 2015: Barangaroo station to be announced by Baird government Sydney Morning Herald 23 June 2015
- ↑ The state plan: a new direction for New South Wales. 2006.
- ↑ Sydney's rail future. 2012.
- ↑ "Premier Iemma unveils Sydney's first Euro-style metro rail project" (PDF). Premier of New South Wales Department. 18 March 2008.
- ↑ "Keneally scraps CBD Metro plans". ABC News. 22 February 2010.
- ↑ "Woods Bagot made architects for 'revolutionary' Wynyard Walk, Sydney". Architecture & Design. Infolink. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ↑ "Wynyard Walk - Current works". www.transport.nsw.gov.au. Transport for NSW. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016.