Ropes Crossing, New South Wales
{{short description|Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia}}
{{about|the suburb|the watercourse|Ropes Creek (New South Wales)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type = suburb
| name = Ropes Crossing
| city = Sydney
| state = NSW
| local_map = yes
| zoom = 13
| image = RopesCrossingNSWplayground.jpg
| caption = Playground on Susannah Drive, Ropes Crossing
| lga = City of Blacktown
| postcode = 2760
| pop = 7,280
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}
| pop_footnotes = {{Census 2021 AUS| id=SAL13411 |name=Ropes Crossing (State Suburb)| accessdate=11 October 2024|quick=on}}
| elevation = 41
| area =
| coordinates = {{coord|33|43|59|S|150|47|28|E|display=inline,title}}
| stategov = Londonderry
| fedgov = Chifley
| near-nw = Llandilo
| near-n = Shanes Park
| near-ne = Willmot
| near-w = Jordan Springs
| near-e = Lethbridge Park
| near-sw = St Marys
| near-s = North St Marys
| near-se = Tregear
| dist1 = 49
| dir1 = west
| location1 = Sydney CBD
}}
Ropes Crossing is a suburb of Blacktown, Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Ropes Crossing is located {{convert|49|km}} west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.
History
Ropes Crossing was originally part of the suburb of St Marys. The suburb is named as a crossing of Ropes Creek, a watercourse which is approximately {{convert|23|km}} long rising near Devils Back Tunnel and flowing north into South Creek. The creek itself was named for Anthony Rope, a First Fleet convict who it is assumed was granted land fronting the creek.{{NSW GNR|id = ujwGZxsyan|title = Ropes Creek|accessdate = 4 August 2013}}
The area was the site of a World War II munitions area, now formerly known as Australian Defence Industries or (ADI). The area had its own railway line which was electrified in 1957. When the line first opened on 1 May 1942, it only ran from St Marys to Dunheved at a distance of 50.350 rail kilometres from Central railway station and on 29 June 1942 the line opened from Dunheved to Ropes Creek at 53.010 rail kilometres from Sydney.
When electrification was extended on the western line in the late 1950s a new station was built and called Cochrane and was located 52.480 rail kilometres from Sydney. The station opened on 2 September 1957. The line was mainly munitions traffic with morning and afternoon passenger services for munitions workers. Towards the end of the line being open, the only traffic seen on the line was the occasional scrap metal trains that visited Sims Metal which was located off the Up line just south of Dunheved. Working of these trains meant that the trains worked to Dunheved where the locomotive ran around the train and proceeded back to the Sims Metal Siding to shunt loaded cars in and empties out as required.
Suburb facilities
=Housing=
{{as of|2013}}, the suburb is being developed for housing by Lend Lease{{cite web |url=http://www.ropescrossing.com.au/llweb/ropescrossing/main.nsf |title= Ropes Crossing - A Delfin Lend Lease Project|website=ropescrossing.com.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103070717/http://www.ropescrossing.com.au/llweb/ropescrossing/main.nsf |archive-date=3 November 2007}} with up to 2,200 homes and will contain a regional park in the centre. Housing is divided up into five villages – Aurora, Barinya, Brookwood, Talloway and Woodlands. Rochford Place is allocated as "Over 55's Living".
=School=
Ropes Crossing Public School{{cite web |url=http://www.ropescross-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/sws/view/1012843.node |title= Home – Ropes Crossing Public School|website=ropescross-p.schools.nsw.edu.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303051214/http://www.ropescross-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/sws/view/1012843.node |archive-date=3 March 2011}} was opened in 2008.
Population
References
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External links
- [http://www.nswrail.net NSWRail.net] For dates and kilometre reference points.
- Google Earth for reference points.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071103070717/http://www.ropescrossing.com.au/llweb/ropescrossing/main.nsf Ropes Crossing Housing estate]
{{Sydney Blacktown suburbs}}