Rydalmere railway station is situated in a suburb in Sydney's north western suburbs on the Carlingford Line. This station is not heavily used. The make up of patrons that use this station include local residents, workers from the surrounding industrial area and also students who attend the neighbouring Parramatta Campus of the University of Western Sydney. The station has a single platform of 4-cars length on a single track line. To reach the other side of the line, pedestrians need to utilise the footpath on the Victoria Rd bridge, which has stairs at either end.
Under the Clearways project, a passing loop was planned to have been built at Rydalmere in order to allow two trains per hour to operate on the line. However, this project was officially cancelled by the State Government in 2008.
The Epping to Chatswood railway line was originally intended to continue from Epping to Parramatta, and would have travelled along the existing Carlingford line through Rydalmere, which would be widened from single-track to dual-track. However, in August 2003 the NSW Transport Minister, Michael Costa, announced that the Epping-Parramatta section would be postponed indefinitely.
However, on 11 August 2010, the Federal Government promised 2.6 billion dollars towards this project, who, along with the NSW State Government, will extend the line from Epping to Parramatta through the Carlingford line. Rydalmere station, along with Carlingford, Telopea, Dundas and Parramatta, would be upgraded, and Camellia and Rosehill stations would be demolished. A new station, Rosehill-Camellia, would be built. The line would be upgraded to accommodate 8-carriage trains, and the line would be duplicated. Work is due to start in 2011, with a prospected 2017 finish.
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