Newcastle Interchange railway station
|
Newcastle Interchange
|
||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artists' impression of the Newcastle Interchange, which will house the station.
|
||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Cnr Beresford St and Stewart Ave, Wickham, New South Wales Australia |
|||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°55′27″S 151°45′34″E / 32.924217°S 151.759459°ECoordinates: 32°55′27″S 151°45′34″E / 32.924217°S 151.759459°E | |||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | RailCorp | |||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | NSW TrainLink | |||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Newcastle railway line | |||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 165.93 km (103.10 mi) from Central | |||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 (1 side, 2 island) | |||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 9 February 1936 (original) Late 2017 (redevelopment) |
|||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 25 December 2014 | |||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | June 2015 – 2017 | |||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Wickham (1936–2014) Wickham Transport Interchange (2014–16) |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
 New transport interchange at Wickham – fly-through, animation by Transport for New South Wales
|
Newcastle Interchange railway station, formerly Wickham railway station, is the passenger terminus of the Newcastle railway line, located in Newcastle, New South Wales. Servicing the inner Newcastle suburb of Wickham, the station originally opened in February 1936, two months after Civic station was opened on the same line, and after the closure and demolition of the nearby Honeysuckle station, addressing urban growth in Newcastle during the early 20th century. At the time of opening, it was the third station on the line from the original terminus at Newcastle and following Civic, and ahead of Hamilton.
Formerly located on the east side of Stewart Avenue, the station is currently being relocated to the avenue's west and redeveloped as part of Transport for New South Wales' Newcastle Interchange project. It follows the partial closure of the Newcastle railway line and the ceasing of NSW TrainLink services to Civic and Newcastle stations in December 2014, as part of a greater refurbishment of Newcastle's public transport system and central business district. The station is set to reopen in late 2017, as the new terminus of the Newcastle railway line and the terminus of both the Central Coast & Newcastle Line and Hunter Line services, becoming the line's third terminus in its history, after Honeysuckle and Newcastle stations.
Prior to Wickham and Civic stations, Honeysuckle railway station, which was located opposite Steel Street in Newcastle West (at 32°55′35″S 151°45′54″E / 32.926263°S 151.764902°E), originally serviced areas west of the central business district. It was first built as the passenger service terminus of the Newcastle railway line and opened as Newcastle railway station in March 1857. While the new railway line was originally built with the express purpose of assisting the sea ports in the city, the original Newcastle railway station proved to be not close enough to adequately serve the ports, and thus the railway was extended further east, with a brand new Newcastle station opening in March 1858 as the line's new passenger terminus, and the former Newcastle station being renamed Honeysuckle station. The station was later renamed Honeysuckle Point station, before it was ultimately closed in 1872 and another station, Hamilton, was opened two kilometers down the line towards the Main North railway line junction. While the station laid dormant for many years after its closure to passenger services, Honeysuckle was finally demolished in 1936, prior to the opening of Wickham and a year after the opening of Civic station, though the sandstone foundations of the platforms remained in place through to their rediscovery during excavations for the Newcastle Light Rail project in July 2016.
...
Wikipedia