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Chatswood railway station is located on the North Shore line, serving the Sydney suburb of Chatswood. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore & Northern line services. ==History== Chatswood station opened on 1 January 1890 when the North Shore line opened from Hornsby to St Leonards.〔(Chatswood Station ) NSWrail.net〕 An island platform was built on 23 May 1900 and a third dock platform brought into use on 12 July 1919. There was a small goods yard, similar to the one at St Leonards, on the western side of the station, beyond the northern end of the platforms. The dock platform on the eastern side of the station was used for electric parcel-van traffic and also for terminating some services from the city, until these were rescheduled to terminate further along the North Shore line from January 1992.〔"CityRail launches new timetable" ''Railway Digest'' February 1992 page 45〕 It was removed in October 1994.〔"Signalling & Safeworking" ''Railway Digest'' November 1994 page 41〕 Until 1958 there was a tram terminus in Victoria Avenue beside the station. The station entrance was later integrated with a shopping centre called The Interchange in the mid-1980s. With the construction of the Chatswood to Epping line, it was decided to redevelop the station to accommodate Chatswood's new role as a junction station. The original station, as well as the attached bus interchange and shopping centre were demolished in 2005 and a temporary station was opened where the former platform 3 was located. A new western island platform opened in place of the original island platform on 16 October 2006. The eastern island platform opened in 2008.〔(Chatswood Transport Interchange ) Transport Construction Authority〕 〔(Chatswood Transport Interchange ) NSW Treasury〕The signal cabin that was located at the northern end of the station building, was saved and has been preserved as part of the bus interchange.〔(Historical Signal Room ) Willoughby City Council〕 The new station precinct is known as the Chatswood Transport Interchange (CTI) and consists of the railway station, a bus interchange and pedestrian pathways connecting the precinct to the surrounding streets. The CTI was constructed as a Public Private Partnership and was to include a new shopping plaza called Metro Chatswood and three towers. The private developers, CRI Chatswood, went into receivership whilst construction was underway.〔Carter, Bridget. (Chatswood development delays trigger $28m payout for Bonett ) ''The Australian'' 30 September 2010.〕 As a result, the shopping centre remained closed until 2014 and major construction of the towers was delayed for several years. In 2019 Chatswood station will become the terminus of the Sydney Metro Northwest line which will replace the Epping to Chatswood railway line. This will at a later date be extended to Bankstown via the Sydney Harbour Rail Tunnel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chatswood railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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