Kellyville railway station

Kellyville railway station is an elevated Sydney Metro Northwest station built by Impregilo-Salini and Metro Trains Sydney for Transport for NSW at Samantha Riley Drive, Kellyville, in Sydney, Australia. Train services from the station run to Rouse Hill and Chatswood, with a journey time to Chatswood of around 33 minutes. As the New South Wales Government's Sydney's Rail Future strategy is delivered over the next 20 years, services are expected to be extended to the Sydney central business district (CBD) and Bankstown. Kellyville Station opened 26 May 2019.[2][3]

For the station in Pennsylvania formerly known as Kellyville, see Gladstone station (SEPTA).

Kellyville
Guragura Street entrance in June 2019
Location	Samantha Riley Drive, Kellyville New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	33°42′49″S 150°56′08″E
Elevation	13 m (43 ft) above ground level [1]
Owned by	Transport Asset Holding Entity
Operated by	Metro Trains Sydney
Distance	30km from Chatswood
Platforms	2
Train operators	Metro Trains Sydney
Connections	Bus
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Parking	1,200 spaces
Bicycle facilities	45 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	26 May 2019
Services
Preceding station Sydney Metro Following station Rouse Hill toward Tallawong M1 Metro North West Line Bella Vista toward Chatswood

History

Kellyville, on Sydney's rural fringes, was not considered suitable for new suburban development until 1988, when then Planning Minister Bob Carr abandoned the state's long-standing policy of concentrating new development along existing rail corridors. Instead, the government green-lit development in the area on the proviso that a corridor be preserved for mass transit to be built in future.[4] This corridor, which runs beside Old Windsor Road, was announced as the alignment for the North West T-way, a new bus rapid transit line 10 years later[5] and construction began in 2004. Kellyville's three T-way stations – known as Riley, Burns and Balmoral – opened in March 2007, providing commuters with fast bus access from Kellyville to the Parramatta CBD.[6] Commuters travelling to the Sydney CBD, however, needed to catch buses along the M2 Hills Motorway and congested Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The Government's 1998 plan also envisaged a future rail line to the Hills District, but only as far as Castle Hill.[5] Following dire warnings from the state's most senior rail bureaucrat about a looming capacity crunch on the rail system, a new "North West Rail Link" (NWRL) was proposed in 2005, featuring a station for Kellyville at the corner of Old Windsor and Burns roads – the site of the Burns T-way station, then under construction. A Burns Road Station remained government policy even when the NWRL was dumped in favour of the North West Metro proposal in 2008. The 2009 version of plan featured two stations, one at Burns Road, called Kellyville, and a second at Samantha Riley Drive.[7]

Design and construction

The Australian Labor Party was heavily defeated at the 2011 state election in part because of its tendency to announce, cancel and re-announce transport projects.[8] The incoming Liberal/Nationals government, led by Barry O'Farrell, had put a promise to build the NWRL at the centre of their election platform. During consultation and detailed design, it was decided that Burns Road would be replaced with two stations: Bella Vista, on the edge of the giant Norwest Business Park, and Kellyville. Kellyville Station would be built on a new railway viaduct (dubbed the "skytrain") above the existing Riley T-way station.

As part of the project's public–private partnership delivery model, a consortium was chosen to operate the stations and trains. To ensure that the stations were designed to be maintainable and with customer service in mind, the operator would also be responsible for designing and building the station buildings. (An Italian joint venture, Impregilo-Salini, was chosen to build the viaduct as part of a separate $340 million contract.) The Metro Trains Sydney consortium, includes MTR Corporation, which designed, built and operates the stations on the Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong.[9][10][11]

Work on the new station began in June 2014.[12] The NWRL was rebranded Sydney Metro Northwest the following year.

Services

Kellyville has two side platforms. It is served by Metro North West Line services.[9][13] Kellyville station is served by a number of bus routes operated by Busways and Hillsbus.[14]

Platform	Line	Stopping pattern	Notes
1	M	Services to Chatswood
2	M	Services to Tallawong

External image
Kellyville Bus Guide by Transport for NSW

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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).
3. Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview Archived 17 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Sydney Metro June 2015
4. Department of Environment and Planning (1988). Sydney Into Its Third Century: Metropolitan Strategy for the Sydney Region. Sydney.
5. New South Wales Department of Transport (1998). Action for transport 2010: an integrated transport strategy for Sydney.
6. Besser, Linton (12 April 2007). "Priority bus green lights scrapped". The Sydney Morning Herald.
7. Sydney Metro Authority (December 2009). Sydney's metro network: priorities for shaping Sydney's growth.
8. Clune, David (2012). "Why Labor lost". In David Clune and Rodney Smith (ed.). From Carr to Keneally: Labor in office in NSW 1995-2011. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
9. Kellyville Station Transport for NSW
10. North West Rail Link $340 million skytrain contract awarded Archived 2 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine Transport for NSW 18 December 2013
11. $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
12. Storey, Rachael (18 June 2014). "Media release: skytrain construction begins as North West Rail Link investment hits $5 billion over four years".
13. "M: Metro North West line timetable". Transport for NSW.
14. Kellyville Station Transport for NSW

External links

• Kellyville Station description at Sydney Metro Northwest project website
• Northwest Rapid Transit corporate website
• Kellyville Station details Transport for New South Wales (Archived 14 June 2019)