Rouse Hill railway station

Rouse Hill
Rouse Hill Station worksite, adjacent to North West T-way
Location	Tempus Street, Rouse Hill New South Wales Australia
Owned by	Transport for New South Wales
Operated by	Northwest Rapid Transit
Distance	32km from Chatswood
Platforms	2
Train operators	Northwest Rapid Transit
Connections	Bus
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Bicycle facilities	40 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opening	Early 2019
Services
← Cudgegong Road· Kellyvile→

Rouse Hill is an elevated rapid transit station being built by the Northwest Rapid Transit (NRT) consortium at the Rouse Hill Town Centre in Sydney, Australia. The project forms part of Transport for New South Wales's $8.3 billion Sydney Metro Northwest scheme. Rouse Hill Station will be one of two new metro stops in the suburb: the other, Cudgegong Road, is being built a few kilometres to the west.

From 2019, Rouse Hill Station will provide frequent train services to Chatswood. In later years, as the metro network expands, the Government intends to run trains to the Sydney central business district, Bankstown, Marsden Park and Hurstville.

Then-rural Rouse Hill was identified by Sydney's 1988 metropolitan strategy, Sydney Into Its Third Century, as an area for future development. Under the previous 1968 strategy, new Western Sydney suburbs could only be formed within the broad corridors formed by the suburban rail system. In approving Sydney Into Its Third Century, Planning Minister Bob Carr abolished this guideline: henceforth new areas such as Rouse Hill could be developed far from rail lines, provided space was left for future transport infrastructure.

A decade later, as the region began to grow, Carr had risen to become premier, and sought solutions to the new suburbs' transport problems. The Government's public transport strategy, Action for Transport 2010, released in 1998, proposed a new railway line from the existing suburban network at Epping to Castle Hill. From Castle Hill, the plan said, passengers would change onto a new bus rapid transit system, to be built using the district's hitherto-vacant transport corridors. Both the Castle Hill rail and busway projects were promised for 2010: only the busway eventuated, and only in part.