Distance 26km from Chatswood Connection Bus | Connections Bus Platforms in use 2 | |
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Location Brookhollow Avenue, Baulkham Hills
New South Wales
Australia Owned by Transport for New South Wales Operated by Northwest Rapid Transit Train operators Northwest Rapid Transit Owner Transport for New South Wales Similar Showground railway station, Cherrybrook railway station, Castle Hill railway station, Kellyville railway station, Norwest Business Park | ||
Norwest is an underground rapid transit station being built by the Northwest Rapid Transit (NRT) consortium at Brookhollow Road, Baulkham Hills, in Sydney, Australia. The station is being built as part of Transport for New South Wales's Sydney Metro Northwest project, to serve future train services to Rouse Hill and Chatswood. The station is planned to eventually serve trains to the Sydney central business district, Bankstown and Hurstville as part of the government's 20-year Sydney's Rail Future strategy. Norwest Station takes its name from the 172-hectare Norwest Business Park, in which it is located.
The NSW Government announced a future railway line to Castle Hill as part of its Action for Public Transport strategy in 1998. A more specific but longer-term plan presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later included a 'Mungerie Park Line', with a station at Norwest Business Park. In the years that followed, Norwest 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.
Following a change of government, work on the North West Rail Link commenced in 2013. As part of the approved proposal, an additional station, Bella Vista, was added within the business park. The new station is currently under construction and is scheduled to open in early 2019. The station will be operated by NRT, which was also responsible for the design of the station as part of its "Operations, Trains and Systems" contract with Transport for NSW.