Ten thousand new homes planned to accompany a finished Woollahra train station would be “built and operational by 2051”, more than 26 years after they were announced, a departmental briefing note has revealed.

And internal chats show Transport for NSW bureaucrats were asked to pull together rail and road capacity modelling 72 hours before the NSW government said it would revive the eastern suburb’s half-built train station.

NSW Premier Chris Minns made the announcement about Woollahra station on August 24. Credit: Sitthixay Ditthavong

On August 24, Premier Chris Minns announced the “ghost” station at Woollahra abandoned in the 1970s would be revived and built by 2029, costing taxpayers $200 million. The heavy rail station would support the construction of thousands of new dwelling

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