Bella Vista railway station

Bella Vista railway station is a rapid transit station built by the Metro Trains Sydney consortium at Lexington Drive, Bella Vista, on the western edge of the Norwest Business Park in Sydney, Australia. The station was built as part of Transport for NSW'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 and Bankstown as part of the government's 20-year Sydney's Rail Future strategy.[2][3]

Bella Vista
Northern entrance, looking south, in June 2019
LocationLexington Drive, Bella Vista
New South Wales
Australia
Coordinates33°43′46″S 150°56′37″E
Elevation6 m (20 ft) below ground level[1]
Owned byTransport Asset Holding Entity
Operated byMetro Trains Sydney
Distance28km from Chatswood
Platforms2
Train operatorsMetro Trains Sydney
ConnectionsBus
Construction
Structure typeOpen cut
Parking800 spaces
Bicycle facilities30 spaces
Disabled accessYes
History
Opened26 May 2019
Services
Preceding station Sydney Metro Following station
Kellyville
toward Tallawong
 M1 Metro North West Line Norwest
toward Chatswood

History

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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

Burns Road opened as a North West T-way bus station in 2007.[7]

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.[8][9][10]

Services

Bella Vista has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Metro North West Line services.[8][11] Bella Vista station is served by bus route 745 to Glenwood, Stanhope Gardens, Quakers Hill and St Marys, operated by Busways, whilst Hillsbus services to Sydney CBD, North Sydney and Parramatta operate from Celebration T-way.[12]

Platform Line Stopping pattern Notes
1 Services to Chatswood
2 Services to Tallawong
External image
Bella Vista Bus Guide by Transport for NSW

References
  1. Sydney Metro. "Interactive map". Sydney Metro. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  2. 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.
  3. Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Archived 17 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Sydney Metro June 2015
  4. New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
  5. Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term strategic plan for rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
  6. 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 3 May 2005.
  7. Besser, Linton (12 April 2007). "Priority bus green lights scrapped". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  8. Bella Vista Station Sydney Metro - Transport for NSW
  9. North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Archived 2 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
  10. $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
  11. "M: Metro North West line timetable". Transport for NSW.
  12. Bella Vista Station Transport for NSW
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