Call for Ministerial Direction to Stop Future Transport Plans to Cut Lines and Close Stations
- Save T3 Bankstown Line
- Sep 11
- 2 min read
Restore Inner West Line & Save T3 Bankstown Line
Community Action Group
PO BOX 470
Lidcombe NSW 1825
11 September 2025
Minister for Transport John Graham MLC
52 Martin Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000
Dear Minister Graham
The Restore Inner West Line & Save T3 Bankstown Line community action group writes to you in relation to the front page Sydney Morning Herald article of 11 September 2025 titled “Revealed: Plans for new Sydney passenger train lines“.
The key proposed changes overlooked in the article but of great concern to residents and commuters of Lidcombe, Berala, Regents Park, Sefton, Chester Hill, Leightonfield, Villawood, Carramar, Cabramatta, Warwick Farm, Liverpool, Birrong, Yagoona, and Bankstown relates to the Transport for NSW proposal for T3 Liverpool to Lidcombe shuttle, removal of T6 and closure of Birrong/Yagoona, and the T5 if operating as a 3 carriage Metro from Western Sydney Airport having an impact on the T3 Liverpool to Lidcombe rail fleet.
The previous correspondence from your office indicating the Minns Labor government’s position is appreciated, but given the publication of the Sydney Morning Herald article demonstrating that Transport for NSW internally is not upholding the official government position (in preparing such draft proposals for a future network); we urge your intervention through the issuing of a Ministerial directive that seeks to prohibit any future network planning that does not include the full T3 Inner West Line: City to Liverpool via Regents Park and the T6 Bankstown to Lidcombe line.
Reassurance to the community of Cumberland LGA, Canterbury-Bankstown LGA, Fairfield LGA, and Liverpool LGA that Sydney Trains Network services and stations will be retained can only be achieved through a Ministerial Direction to Transport for NSW for network planning.
Thank you for your attention and consideration of this matter.
Kind regards
Roydon Ng
0426 500 330
