Cherrybrook metro station
railway station in Hornsby LGA, New South Wales, Australia
Cherrybrook metro station is a station on the Sydney Metro network's North West & Bankstown Line, located along Castle Hill Road in the Hornsby Shire suburb of Cherrybrook, New South Wales. The station has since started serving trains to the Sydney central business district and will extend to Bankstown as part of the government's 20-year Sydney's Rail Future strategy.
History
The NSW Government announced a future railway line through the Cherrybrook area, from Epping 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, West Pennant Hills, and Highs Road, also in West Pennant Hills.
In 2002, Transport Minister Carl Scully announced that 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 Sydney Metro Northwest commenced in 2013. The station was renamed Cherrybrook Station (Government Land) in the final proposal. The new station opened 26 May 2019.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16927063. Authority coordinates are -33.737, 151.032. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2002, 2005 and 2008.
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