Home Interchange

Home Interchange is the major transportation hub for Home, comprising of a bus station, rail station and tram stop. It is located in Central Home, one of four suburbs.

Bus station
The large bus station is located in the centre of the hub, comprising of 15 stands for bus routes. Departures are grouped by the general direction of services and the frequency of services to reduce the amount of conflicting movements.

Home Interchange is currently served by City Transport Newleaf Island, Localbus Home and Stagecoach Newleaf Island, and is owned and maintained by Transport for Home, who are responsible for the cleaning, repairs and general maintenance of the bus station.

History
When the rail station was first built with the rail network in 2007, it comprised of one platform, for the Main Gate line (which currently still survives as part of the Home Centre line), calling at all stations to Main Gate, which at the time were Home Centre, North Bridge and Main Gate.

With the expansion in 2009 which added extra services to the interchange, the other two platforms were built, however Platform 3 for East Wall line services quickly became disused.

Over the Easter period of 2014, engineering works caused the station to be rebuilt closer to the site of the old platform 3, which had also been rebuilt to allow longer trains. At this time, a fourth platform was also added for terminating services on the Museum line, a name which was reused from the second railway line, before the Home Centre stopper was introduced.