Cherrybrook railway station is a station on the

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network's North West Line, located along Castle Hill Road in the suburb of

Cherrybrook, New South Wales Cherrybrook is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 27 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. Cherrybrook is often referred to as being located in the ...

. The station is planned to eventually serve trains to the

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and

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as part of the government's 20-year ''Sydney's Rail Future'' strategy.

History

The

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announced a future railway line through the Cherrybrook area, from

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to Castle Hill, as part of its ''Action for Public Transport'' strategy in 1998. (The document did not specifically list any intermediate stations, however.) A more specific but longer-term plan presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later listed possible stations at Koala Park,

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, and Highs Road, also in West Pennant Hills. In 2002, Transport Minister

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announced the notional Koala Park and Highs Road sites would be served by a single station at Franklin Road, Cherrybrook, to be called Franklin Road. This site faces Castle Hill Road, like its predecessors, and is roughly halfway between the two. Franklin Road Station remained part of successive north-western rail proposals, including the Metropolitan Rail Expansion Strategy in 2005 and a short-lived metro proposal in 2008. Following a change of government, work on the

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commenced in 2013. The station was renamed Cherrybrook Station (Government Land) in the final proposal. The new station opened 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.Cherybrook station
Sydney Metro - Transport for NSW

Services

Cherrybrook has one island platform with two faces. It is served by

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services. Cherrybrook station is served by a number of bus routes operated by CDC NSW.Cherrybrook Station
Transport for NSW

References

External links

Cherrybrook Station description
at Sydney Metro Northwest project website
Northwest Rapid Transit
corporate website
Cherrybrook Station details
Transport for New South Wales Archived
18 June 2019) {{Transport for New South Wales railway stations, M=y Easy Access railway stations in Sydney Railway stations in Australia opened in 2019 Sydney Metro stations Hornsby Shire