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Barangaroo railway station

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Owned by
  
RailCorp

Connections
  
Bus, Train (Wynyard)

Platforms in use
  
2

Tracks
  
2

Owner
  
RailCorp

Location
  
Hickson Road, Barangaroo

Operated by
  
Northwest Rapid Transit

Line(s)
  
Sydney Metro City & Southwest

Similar
  
Showground railway station, Bella Vista railway station, Cudgegong Road railway st, Kellyville railway station, Rouse Hill railway station

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).

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. 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. 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, but as of March 2016, works were still continuing.

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.

References

Barangaroo railway station Wikipedia