Norwest railway station is an underground

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station built by the

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consortium at Brookhollow Avenue, Norwest, in Sydney,

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, Australia. The station was built as part of

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project, to serve future train services to

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and Chatswood. The station is planned to eventually serve trains to the Sydney central business district and

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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 The Norwest Business Park is a business park in the suburbs of Norwest and Bella Vista in the local government area of The Hills Shire in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Norwest Business Park is bordered by Windsor Road to the east, and ...

, in which it is located.

History

The

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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 opened in 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.Norwest Station
Metro Norwest - Transport for NSW

Services

Norwest has two platforms. It is served by

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services. Norwest station is served by a number of bus routes operated by

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and

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.Norwest Station
Transport for NSW

References

External links

Norwest Station description
at Sydney Metro Northwest project website
Northwest Rapid Transit
corporate website
Norwest Station details
Transport for New South Wales Archived
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