West Ryde, New South Wales
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The bus interchange and railway station at West Ryde |
West Ryde is a suburb in the
Lower North Shore of
Sydney Australia. The suburb is home to the
West Ryde railway station, a shopping and commercial area, and the Sydney Water Station that pumps water to most of Northern Sydney. In the past, West Ryde was a working-class suburb of Sydney and was also home to many factories (especially around the
Meadowbank area).
Today the suburb is growing more affluent, however the shopping stretch along Victoria Road remains unsatisfactory in the eyes of many and in need of a major makeover. The
Woolworths in Graf Avenue was demolished in
2005 and replaced by a medium sized shopping centre. This shopping center, with
Woolworths as the "anchor tenant" also contains Ryde library which has been moved from across the road. The centre itself has been rather high tech and attractive and has diverted several people from the ageing
Top Ryde Shopping Centre, which is due to be redeveloped in
2006. The factories of the past are slowly circuming to demolition, and the construction of million-dollar waterfront apartments with views of
Sydney Harbour and
Sydney Olympic Park is taking place.
West Ryde is the west-most suburb of Lower Northern Sydney and the
City of Ryde. It borders parts of the
City of Parramatta in its west,
Eastwood (also part of the
City of Ryde) in its north, and the Parramatta River in its south. The suburbs of
Meadowbank and
Melrose Park share the 2114 postcode with West Ryde.
