Glendale railway station

Glendale railway station is a planned station on the Main Northern railway line. The new station will be located immediately east of the Stockland Glendale shopping centre, near the former Cardiff railway workshops and Sulphide Junction, serving the suburb of Greendale. The station will be served by trains on the Central Coast &amp; Newcastle Line. The platform is expected to be an island platform.

History
The station is part of stage 2 of the Lake Macquarie Transport Interchange project. This project is managed by Lake Macquarie City Council, together with the state government. It was first proposed in the mid-1990s and promised by the then Labor government to be completed by 2003.

Since then, very little has been done on this project. Section 1 of stage 1 of the project, a new road, was finally started in 2015 after the state government finally committed to funding it.

Section 2 of stage 1 was a road bridge over the train line. The state government provided $1.7m to fund a business case for the project. The business case, prepared in 2016, stated that the project had a benefit to cost ratio of 3.8 to 1. However, the government rejected this case and its analysis in 2018, stating that the costs outweighed the benefits. It continues to provide funding for the council to look into an alternative solution.

Transport for NSW is continuing to monitor demand for a train station in this area, however it is unlikely that a train station will be built in the near future, given funding hasn't been secured for section 2 of stage 1 and stage 2 will cost even more than stage 1.