Penrith railway station, Sydney

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Penrith railway station is a railway station on the CityRail network in New South Wales, Australia. Located in the Sydney suburb of Penrith, the station serves as a major interchange between Western line, Blue Mountains line trains. Western-bound CountryLink XPT and Xplorer services also stop here. Penrith station serves passengers from surrounding suburbs, including Penrith, Lemongrove, Glenmore Park, Mulgoa, Wallacia, Warragamba, Regentville, Jamisontown, South Penrith, Mt Pleasant, Cranebrook & Castlereagh.

Many people from other suburbs which have stations other than Penrith located closer to them also choose to use Penrith station due to the Intercity and Western-bound services available. Residents from areas such as the Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains and Penrith suburbs such as Kingswood, Werrington, St Marys, St Clair, Erskine Park and surrounding suburbs often do this and have subsequent bus connections to the station. As a result, Penrith Station is somewhat of a hub for the wider Western Sydney region. There is a large commuter carpark with 875 spaces provided by Cityrail. [ [http://www.cityrail.nsw.gov.au/facilities/facilities.jsp?n=218&giveOutput=true&facility= "Facilities", CityRail Website] ]

Platforms/Service

Platform 1:
*Western line colour>Western Line - terminating services, all stations services to Central, then to Lindfield, Gordon, Hornsby or Berowra via the North Shore Line.

Platform 2:

*Blue Mountains line colour>Blue Mountains Line - intercity services to Central.
*Western line colour>Western Line - all stations and limited stops services to Central, then to Lindfield, Gordon, Hornsby or Berowra via the North Shore Line.

Platform 3:
*Countrylink Western - country services to Dubbo (1 per day) and Broken Hill (1 per week).
*Blue Mountains line colour>Blue Mountains Line - intercity services to Springwood, Katoomba, Mt Victoria and Lithgow.
*Western line colour>Western Line - services to Emu Plains.

Bus Services

Penrith Station Bus Interchange

Westbus
*673 - to Windsor.
*677 - to Richmond.
*678 - to Richmond.
*781 - to St Marys.
*782 - to St Marys.
*784 - to Cranebrook.
*785 - to Kingswood.
*786 - to Cranebrook.
*789 - to Luddenham.
*790 - to St Marys.
*791 - to South Penrith.
*794 - to Jamisontown.
*795 - to Warragamba.
*797 - to Glenmore Park.
*798 - to Glenmore Park.
*835 - to Liverpool.
*N1 - to Glenmore Park.
*N2 - to South Penrith.
*N3 - to Cranebrook.NightRide
*N70 - to Town Hall.Blue Mountains Bus Company
*688 - to Emu Heights
*689 - to Leonay
*688/689 - to Emu Heights/Leonay
*690 - to Springwood/Faulconbridge
*691 - to Mount Riverview

Trackplan

Proposed fast rail link

First introduced in 2004 by a consortium of Dutch bank ABN AMRO and developer Leighton Holdings, the project dubbed the Penrith High Speed Link, known officially as Western FastRail, [ [http://www.fastrail.com.au Fastrail Website] ] was reproposed in December 2006 and received approving comments by the NSW State Government, and was offered funding by Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd should the Australian Labor Party win the 2007 Federal Election. [ [http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/story/0,,20948422-5007132,00.html Sunday Telegraph] ]

The $2 billion Western FastRail project will involve a tunnel being built between Parramatta and the Sydney CBD. It will shrink times from Penrith to the city to 28 minutes (presently 55 minutes), Penrith to Parramatta to 17 minutes (presently 25 minutes) and Penrith to Blacktown to 11 minutes (presently 15 minutes). The plan would not only assist the commuters of Penrith however, but the entire Western Suburbs of Sydney (40% of Sydney's population), which as an area, is accursed with longer commute times than any other part of Sydney. It would also reduce the car dependency that is characteristic of this region.

ee also

*Railways in Sydney
*CityRail

Neighbouring stations

References