New Railways

 

 

Sydney CBD LINES

 

The Sydney CBD Lines Map includes a second City Circle Line to be called the Bradfield Line named after Dr. John Bradfield who designed and built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, City Circle Railway, Goods Railways and Metropolitan Railways.

Key features of the Bradfield Line includes the use of unused platforms at Central and St. James and use of unused Railway Tunnels underneath Macquarie Street that were designed and built by Dr. John Bradfield. Dr. John Bradfield also built unused tunnels under Hyde Park Corner that would be used for the South Eastern Lines.

The Bradfield Line is needed as a priority over a Sydney Harbour Rail Tunnel to unlock rail congestion at Town Hall and Wynyard Railway Stations and on existing tracks across the Sydney Harbour Bridge ‘Pinch Points’.

The Northern, Richmond and Western Lines all feeds through the same ‘Pinch Points’ thus causing hold ups to other trains and commuters throughout the network.

The Western Line is the most heaviliy patronised line and as such would use the Bradfield Line along with Inner West services and High Speed Rail services from Canberra and Melbourne.

Currently 75% of the trains that cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge are Western Line services and traverses the North Shore Line. By feeding Western Line trains in and and out of the Sydney CBD on the Bradfield Line unlocks rail congestion and allows for expansion of the rail network in the decades ahead.

Northern and Richmond Line trains would continue to operate through Town Hall and Wynyard Railway Stations and across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Darling Harbour and King Street Railway Stations eases congestion at Townhall and Wynyard.

Commuters who board at Blacktown and alight at North Sydney can simply catch a Richmond Line Train.

Commuters who drive to work from Penrith to Sydney CBD will find more seats available on Western Line trains.

The Bradfield Line will serve the Bankstown, Brookvale, Carlingford, Eastwood, Ermington, Hills, Inner West, North Shore Line Extension, Princes, Richmond Line Extension, South Eastern and Western Lines.

The City Circle Line will serve the Airport, Carlingford, East Hills, Eastern Suburbs, Illawarra, Northern, Northern Beaches, North Shore, North Western and Richmond Lines.

The North Shore Line and Sydney Harbour Bridge will serve the Carlingford, North Western, Northern and Richmond Lines.

 

Other City Railway Improvements:

• Woollahra Railway Station to be built enabling people to visit elderly family relations.
• Woollahra Railway Station allows for new and improved Bus Services.
• Woollahra Railway Station will lead to improved retail trading on Oxford Street and Queen Street
• Wynyard Railway Station Platforms 1 & 2 built and the Car Park moved to Barangaroo.
• Wynyard Railway Station Platforms 1 & 2 would initially serve the existing City Circle Line.

 

 

High Speed Rail (HSR):

• Central Platforms 26 & 27 for Bradfield Line
• Central Platforms 26 & 27 HSR to Canberra, Melbourne
• Central Platforms 1-15 HSR to Adelaide CBD, Brisbane, Darwin CBD, Newcastle CBD, and Perth
• HSR for Melbourne-Hobart via roll-on roll-off Rail Ferry across Bass Strait

 

The Sydney Harbour Rail Tunnel feeds into the Bradfield Line and connects to the Eastwood Line. Every new Railway Line connects to another Line.

New Railway Lines will not be built as Branch Lines. The operation of services is a different matter to how a Railway Line is constructed. Through Railway Lines adds greater value and flexibility to a Rail Network than what the configuration of a Branch Line does.

The Sydney Harbour Rail Tunnel should be a Heavy Rail Tunnel and not a Rapid Transit Metro Rail Tunnel. As a Heavy Rail Tunnel, it will enable High Speed Rail services to operate through the tunnel.

As a Metro Rail Tunnel, High Speed Rail services could not operate through the tunnel. The England-France Rail Tunnel is a Heavy Rail Tunnel.

 

Sydney Metropolitan Map

 

All new Sydney Metropolitan Railway Lines will not be built as Branch Lines. The operation of services is a different matter as to how a Railway Line is constructed.

Through Railway Lines adds greater value and flexibilty to a Rail Network than what the configuration of a Branch Line does.

 

Diamond Junctions

Diamond Junctions are whereby railway tracks intersect and connect to other lines in the formation of a diamond. In the Sydney Metropolitan Map below a number of double track diamond junctions would be built. These are as follows:

• Where the Bankstown Line intersects with the Campbelltown Line,
• Where the Ermington Line intersects with the Carlingford Line,
• Where the North Western Line intersects with the Richmond Line,
• Where the South Eastern Line intersects with the Princes Line.

 

• The Bankstown Line would also go over or under the Campbelltown Line,
• The Ermington Line would also go over or under the Carlingford Line,
• The North Western Line would also go over or under the Richmond Line,
• The South Eastern Line would also go over or under the Princes Line.

 

Diamond Junctions allows for flexibility in the rail network and provides improvements in passenger services.

Currently there is a Y Link at Harris Park where the Western and Southern Lines meets that enables the operation of Cumberland Line services.

 

 

Regional & Rural Map

All new Regional and Rural Railway Lines will not be built as Branch Lines. The operation of services is a different matter to how a Railway Line is constructed.

Through Railway Lines adds greater value and flexibilty to a Rail Network than what the configuration of a Branch Line does.

Many branch country railway lines in New South Wales were closed in the 1980’s for this very reason. Had these railway lines been configured as through lines, they would have had greater economic value and they would not have been closed.