Old Sydney train station could be finished and reopened in new housing plan
One of Sydney’s most well-heeled suburbs could get a new train station, which would unlock a plan to build thousands of new homes.
Woollahra, in the city’s Eastern Suburbs has a partially completed “ghost” station which was abandoned in the 1970s.
But a reopening could allow 25,000 new homes to be built after a plan for developments further west were given the red light, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
It could form an extra stop on the Eastern Suburbs line, which goes to Bondi Junction.
Members of the Australian Turf Club (ATC) voted against the sale of Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney’s west for homes and a new metro station in May.
No alternative has been announced.
The paper said the government is giving serious consideration to Woollahra among a swath of options to deliver new homes around the city.