Indefinite Deferrals: Planning to Nowhere

In 1998 the then Premier of NSW, Bob Carr, first conceived the NorthWest Rail Link. It was to be integrated into the existing CityRail network; connecting the city’s north, via the exisitng station at Epping, to the growth centre of the west with end of the line at Rouse Hill. 

The project was due for completion by 2010.

However after the 1998 state election, which Carr won, the NorthWest Rail Link plans never followed through.

In March of 2008 former Premier Morris Iemma announced his major rail infrastructure plan to tackle the northwest. Construction was proposed of a metro-style subway, the NorthWest Metro; direct from St James in the city to Rouse Hill in the west.

This project was due for completion in 2017.