Metro North West Line is a

rapid transit Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be c ...

rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The first–and currently the only line on the Sydney Metro network, it commenced operation on 26 May 2019, running between and . The line will be extended through the

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and towards

Bankstown Bankstown is a suburb south west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is located in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, hav ...

with 18 more stations, as part of the

Sydney Metro City & Southwest Sydney Metro City & Southwest is a rapid transit project currently under-construction in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The project will extend the Metro North West Line from on the North Shore, to in the city's south-west via the Sydn ...

project, with an opening date of 2024.

Construction

The North West Line is being constructed in two stages. The current section was completed in May 2019 under the

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project, which involved the construction of an entirely new line between Tallawong and

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, along with the conversion of the

Epping to Chatswood railway line The Epping to Chatswood rail link (ECRL) (originally a part of the Parramatta Rail Link (PRL) proposal) is a railway line in the northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, which connects Epping station on the Northern line with Chatswood on the N ...

which previously operated under suburban

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services. The second stage, the

, is currently under construction and involves extending this line from Chatswood to

, similarly involving a combination of constructing a new line from Chatswood to

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and converting a section of the

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from Sydenham to Bankstown, which previously operated as the suburban T3 Bankstown Line under Sydney Trains.

Service

Sydney Metro Alstom Metropolis Driverless Train1

Services on the line are operated by

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, a joint venture between the

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, John Holland and

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. Services take 37 minutes to traverse the current 13 stations from end to end, at a frequency at each station of every four minutes during peak hours and every ten minutes in the off peak. Upon initial opening, the line previously operated at a frequency at each station of every five minutes during peak hours.

North West Night Bus

In the first six months of operations, regular metro services on the line were supplemented by a late night bus service known as the North West Night Bus, with 13 stops in close proximity to these stations. The bus service operated from Sunday to Wednesday nights after about 9.30 pm in both directions, filling in for final metro services at 10.05 pm from Chatswood and 9.25 pm from Tallawong, charging metro fares and operating at a frequency of every ten minutes. This service was temporary and was withdrawn six months later on 5 November 2019, when the metro reached full operations. The bus service was jointly operated by

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and

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, both of whom previously jointly operated the

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services between September 2018 and May 2019.

Stations

References

External links

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