The Ropes Creek Line

Now in the process of being removed, the Ropes Creek line branches off the Sydney's main Western line at St. Marys. This line served the munitions factories at the St Marys ADI site. Two of the stations on the line, Cochrane and the Ropes Creek terminus were within Commonwealth property, and thus were unseen by the public for most of their working years. Duplicated and electrified in 1957, the line was officially closed in 1986, the line and infrastructure lying derelict for over fifteen years. Surrounded by recent media coverage, plans will see residential development inside what was the ADI site, and will see the remains of the railway line removed. These views portray the line in its disused but largely complete state during the mid-1990s.