Gordon railway station is a heritage-listed suburban railway station located on the North Shore line, serving the Sydney suburb of Gordon. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore Line and T9 Northern line services. Situated on St Johns Avenue, the station was designed and built by the New South Wales Department of Railways in 1909. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History
In 1887, tenders were called for construction of a branch line extending south from Hornsby to the North Shore. The section between Hornsby and St Leonards was opened on 1 January 1890. Stations provided at the opening of the line included Chatswood and St Leonards. A single line was constructed at the time. The line between St Leonards and Milson's Point (the terminus at the edge of the harbour) was completed 1 May 1893. In 1909 the single line was duplicated between Hornsby and St. Leonard's. At Gordon, during the duplication the original single platform and station building were replaced by a new island platform with a standard brick island-platform style station building. The island platform served the Up North Shore line and the Down North Shore line. A third platform was built at Gordon (the Local Platform) adjacent to the Up line. This platform allowed for termination of local trains at Gordon. At the time of duplication, an overhead footbridge and booking office was built which allowed local residents to cross from one side of Gordon to the other and allowed access to the platforms via sets of steps. The new interchange opened in early June 2015.
The station was upgraded with the provision of lifts in 2005.
Description
Buildings and structures
The buildings comprise a station building, including a signal box, and platforms 2/3, completed ; an overhead booking office, completed ; and station building and platform 1, completed in 1993.
|p1blinename = T9
|p1bstop = services to Epping & Hornsby via Strathfield
|p1clinename = Central Coast & Newcastle Line
|p1cstop = 6 Morning peak intercity train services to Blacktown
|p2alinename = T1
|p2astop = services to Penrith & Emu Plains via Central
|p2anotes = some trains from Central terminate here and return to Penrith or Emu Plains
|p2blinename = T9
|p2bstop = services to Epping & Hornsby via Strathfield
|p2bnotes = some trains from Central terminate here and return to Epping or Hornsby via Strathfield
|p3alinename = T1
|p3astop = services to Hornsby & Berowra
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Transport links
CDC NSW operates six bus routes via Gordon station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
Werona Ave:
- 582: to St Ives
Gordon Interchange:
- 195: to St Ives Chase Loop service
- 196: to Mona Vale
- 197: to Mona Vale & Macquarie University
- 560: to West Pymble Loop Service
- 562: to Macquarie University
Gordon is served by one NightRide route:
- N90: Hornsby station to Town Hall station
Trackplan
Heritage listing
As at 26 October 2010, Gordon Railway Station Group is significant at a state level as an excellent representative example of an early 20th century suburban station building group located on the North Shore line, which retains a high degree of integrity and quality in its architectural detail. The station group demonstrates the importance of the role of the railway in opening up the areas of the northern suburbs of Sydney for settlement at this time. It is able to evoke an earlier era of rail travel through its grouping of the original Platform 2/3 station building, platforms and booking office, along with sympathetic later additions.