Rogans Hill station
Lost Railways:
Rogans Hill Branch Line
Westmead Junction to Castle HillLength: 1.4 km. Opened: August 1904 (tram), 10.7 km extension: 28 Jan 1923 (train). Closed: 31 Jan 1932. Lifted.
The Rogans Hill line had its origins as a steam tramway which extended from Parramatta north to Castle Hill. This tramway broadly ran alongside Church Street, Windsor Road and the Old Northern Road. The railway, which extended the service, followed most of this route, except that it branched from the Main West line at Westmead and joined the original route at Northmead. It also extended north of Castle Hill to Rogans Hill.
The line was never very successful, and suffered from competition with road traffic. Because it followed the road alignment, nearly all traces of the line have been obliterated in subsequent road widenings. One remnant is a concrete pier on the bed of Toongabbie Creek upstream (westwards) of the bridge carrying Redbank Road over the creek. In 1923 when the tramway was converted into a railway, a new loop was constructed running from Westmead which crossed Toongabbie Creek. The tramway pier is from this loop.
