Sydney Metro

Did you know 85,000 artefacts were discovered, carefully removed and recorded during construction of the metro line below the Sydney CBD? A wealth of items buried deep below the surface were found, offering a window into Sydney’s past. From a family burial vault found during excavations at Central Station to a 180-year-old boat unearthed remarkably intact at Barangaroo. Check out images of some of the interesting historical finds ?? Barangaroo Boat, 2018. Blues Point archaeological excavation underway, 2018. Waterloo artefacts, can you spot the 19th Century porcelain doll? Devonshire Street Cemetery nameplate, 2021.

It’s a winner! Waterloo Station artwork Footprints on Gadigal Nura has been crowned the winner of the Place category at the Design Institute of Australia’s National Designers Awards 2024. Artist Nicole Monks worked with local Aboriginal Knowledge holders and local Community to create an exceptional sense of place through the three art pieces that take pride of place at the station. Each piece incorporates the Community in a unique way. Greeting us at the entry, are works created with Elders Uncle Chicka Madden and Aunty Joanne Timbery. Alongside the escalators to the gate line, a sculptural map of local sites of significance is ‘drawn’ in 994 footprint sculptures created from a workshop with local Community members. A 9.7 x 9.7 metre portrait of Roscoe is hard-to-miss inside the station. The image was selected from many photographs taken by Wayne Quilliam during a session with the youthful Brolga dance Academy in collaboration with Jodie Choolburra-Welsh.

Sydney, say hello to your first built-to-rent tower in the CBD! ?? Sitting above Gadigal Station on the M1 Metro North West & Bankstown Line, Indi Sydney is a 39-story-high tower with 234 premium apartments purpose-built for renters. The tower will become home to more than 500 residents who will enjoy all the benefits of high-frequency metro services on their doorstep. How’s that for convenience! Indi Sydney is the first of two over-station developments above the new Gadigal Station. The 39-storey Parkline Place, a premium office tower above the Park Street entrance to Gadigal Station, is scheduled to be completed later this month. Read more: https://lnkd.in/guEmdee4

??Check out the progress being made on Southwest Sydney’s first major interchange at Bankstown. The transit-orientated hub is being delivered as part of Sydney Metro’s Southwest conversion and will provide quick and easy access to new high-frequency metro services when they start in 2025. The interchange will also connect to Sydney Trains platforms and create a thoroughfare linking the north and south sides of Bankstown for pedestrians for the first time. For more: https://lnkd.in/gitxQWQf

Could (or would!) you work on a tunnel boring machine (TBM)? Much like deep-sea divers, compressed air workers on specialised “slurry” TBMs need to acclimate to safely work in the compressed air environment at the front of the TBM. A hyperbaric chamber is a small transition room on the TBM that has a built-in breathing system. It is about 2.5 metres wide x 5 metres long x 1.7 metres high and allows workers to adjust their pressure before and after they carry out maintenance on the TBM’s cutterhead. The amount of time spent inside the chamber depends on the depth of the TBM under the harbour. To build Sydney Metro West’s under-harbour tunnels between The Bays and Hunter Street, the deepest dive is around 45 metres. This depth requires a worker to spend 45 minutes working under pressure in the chamber. They then have to spend another 80 minutes decompressing in the chamber before returning to normal atmospheric pressure.

?? Major makeover alert! Canterbury Station is the first Southwest metro station to have a full set of platform screen doors installed. The state-of-the-art doors now form a 180-metre-long barrier along the edge of the station’s two platforms. Platform screen doors each take about six hours to prepare and install, and are a key feature of Sydney Metro stations, keeping passengers and objects safely away from the tracks and allowing trains to get in and out of the station faster. A total of 160 out of 360 platform screen doors have been installed across the 10 southwest stations being upgraded on the 130-year-old T3 line between Sydenham and Bankstown. Sydney Metro is the first Australian railway to use platform screen doors - you would have seen them on the M1 Metro Northwest & Bankstown Line keeping passengers safe! For more information on Southwest Metro: https://lnkd.in/g6m-hnRV

Before and after ??: Peek behind the hoarding at Sydney Metro West’s Burwood North site alongside Parramatta Road. A birds eye view image taken in September 2024 shows the incredible progress made since the first image was taken in August 2022 to construct the 194-metre-long station box where the future metro station will be located. What a difference two years makes! For more information on Burwood North Metro Station: https://lnkd.in/ge4_s46e

Big news for Sydney’s future! Excavation has kicked off on the Pyrmont Metro Station, a key part of the Sydney Metro West project. Two massive 117-tonne roadheaders have already carved more than 90 metres into the new station’s cavern, with a third machine on the way! Next year, the cavern will be ready for the arrival of tunnel boring machines Jessie and Ruby as they build the 2.3km tunnel to the CBD. ????? So far, 25,000 tonnes of rock has been cleared—and it’s all being repurposed for other projects across Sydney. Pyrmont Station will bring unbeatable access to Darling Harbour, Blackwattle Bay and the new Sydney Fish Market, with metro connections making it just 2 minutes to Hunter Street in the CBD and 13 minutes to Sydney Olympic Park. ?? Plus, there’s a proposed 31-story mixed-use development above the station in the works, creating a vibrant precinct for living, shopping and working! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gw2umBJV #SydneyMetro #PyrmontStation #CityShaping

Did you know there are 13 artworks across Sydney Metro’s city stations? Stop off at any station from Crows Nest to Sydenham to take in some of the most stunning new public art Sydney has to offer. Each work is designed to harmonise with the station's design while creating a statement bold enough to stop you in your tracks!? ? Don’t just take our word for it, here’s what passengers have to say about the artwork on their commute: ? "The aesthetics and artwork is amazing, it feels like I’m an international traveller in my own city!" ? "Love the stations, the artwork, and the trains, well done. Very happy customer." ? "Absolutely fabulous! Great signage, amazing stations and artwork, helpful and friendly staff. Well done from two elderly train buffs!" Read more about the artwork on Sydney Metro City: https://lnkd.in/gb_6gc2a

Are these the world’s first tunnel boring machine (TBM) besties? Sydney Metro West TBMs Beatrice and Daphne have completed the 11-kilometre section of tunnels between The Bays and Sydney Olympic Park and they got the job done in their own unique way – tunnelling side-by-side and celebrating milestones together almost the entire journey. The dynamic duo completed the historic first double breakthrough in the southern hemisphere when they arrived at the Five Dock Station site in November 2023 and then broke through within seconds of each other to reach the Sydney Olympic Park metro station site. Check out their tunnelling journey below ??