Proposals impacting Redfern Station Upgrade
Plans for upgrading Redfern Station have been arround since the 1940's. Here we have collected together material relating to Redfern Station proposals or Rail proposals that impact upon a Redfern Station Upgrade.
This is a summary of the presentation given by RailCorp to the RWA Built Environment Ministerial Advisory Committee (BEMAC) on 3 November 2009. A similar presentation was given by RailCorp to the REDWatch Public Transport Forum on 15 April 2010. Some material from both presentations on the physical constraints of the site is not shown in the summary. File is 596KB PDF.
The NSW Government has now finalised its Long Term Transport Masterplan. Little has changed from the draft, a Redfern Station upgrade is still only a medium term priority in the following terms: “A comprehensive and multi-modal upgrade would address station access and connectivity issues, including access within and to the station, safe and convenient interchange with bus, pedestrian and cycle routes, and accommodating a corridor for expansion of the CBD rail network”
When it comes to Sydney power couples, they don't come much more powerful than Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his wife, former deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt. But Sydney residents might be wondering what they are getting out of the relationship, after it emerged on Thursday that Mr Albanese personally vetoed plans for an upgrade of one of Sydney's busiest trains stations because it was next to his wife's seat reports Jacob Saulwick the Sydney Morning Herald's Transport Reporter n 9 August 2013.
This concept plan for Redfern Station appeared in the Darlington Precinct Traffic Management & Pedestrian Network Study in 1995. It illustrates that with a central loading station that only the north or the south ends of the station have easy access. File is 50Kb PDF
On 12 July 2013 the NSW Government anounced it would call for Expressions of Interest to develop the rail way corridor between Central and Evleigh including the possibility of a over the railway line redevelopment of Redfern Station. You can find this material on a different section of this website we have not duplicated all the references to Redfern Station in this section so follow this link to look at the Central to Eveleigh development proposals.