About Sydney Metro
Sydney Metro is Australia’s biggest public transport project.
Building, operating and maintaining a network of four metro lines, 46 stations and 113km of new metro rail.
Sydney Metro is revolutionising how Australia’s biggest city travels, connecting Sydney’s north west, west, south west and greater west to fast, reliable turn-up-and-go metro services with fully accessible stations.
The metro program includes the operational M1 Line and three projects under construction:
Sydney Metro enhances public spaces with vibrant transport precincts, acting as a catalyst for renewal and better connections.
The metro program creates and supports new communities, improves amenity, and delivers new integrated station developments.
Sydney Metro is Australia’s most technologically advanced railway, and is Australia’s only fully-accessible, driverless train service.
Metro trains are now running from Sydney’s booming North West region under Sydney Harbour, through new underground stations in the CBD.
Sydney’s new metro railway will have a target capacity of about 40,000 customers per hour, similar to other metro systems worldwide. Sydney’s current suburban system can reliably carry 24,000 people an hour per line.
Customers are at the centre of Sydney Metro, including the 21st century design of new railway stations, interchanges and precincts.
Barangaroo Station
M1 Line
Sydney’s first metro, the Metro North West Line, opened on 26 May 2019. Services at the 13 metro stations operate every four minutes in the peak in each direction on Australia’s first driverless railway. The new section of the M1 Line from Chatswood to Sydenham opened on 19 August 2024, includes 15.5-kilometres of metro rail extending the existing Metro North West line from Chatswood, below the harbour and under the Sydney CBD, then out to Sydenham.
For all M1 Line operational and service information visit transportnsw.info/travel-info/ways-to-get-around/metro
Sydney Metro Southwest
The T3 Bankstown Line is being converted to metro standards between Sydenham and Bankstown with all stations to be fully accessible with lifts and level access between platforms and trains.
Sydney Metro Southwest will operate fully segregated from the existing Sydney Trains railway between Sydenham and Bankstown. The T3 Line west beyond Bankstown will continue to be operated by Sydney Trains, serving stations between Liverpool, Lidcombe and Bankstown.
Sydney Metro West
The 24-kilometre metro line doubling rail capacity between Greater Parramatta and the Sydney CBD, linking new communities to rail services and supporting employment growth and housing supply. Stations are confirmed at Westmead, Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park, North Strathfield, Burwood North, Five Dock, The Bays, Pyrmont and Hunter Street in the Sydney CBD. Construction started on the project in 2020.
Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport
Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport new metro railway will service the new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport and Bradfield City Centre. To open at the same time as passenger services start. Construction started in late 2020.
Sydney Metro Review
The NSW Government has completed a comprehensive and independent review into the Sydney Metro project, the Sydney Metro Review.
The review was conducted by Mr Mike Mrdak, who is Chair at the New South Wales Regional Growth Corporation, and Chair at the Airport Development Group. Deputy Chair of the review was Amanda Yeates, CEO of SunCentral.
Download – Sydney Metro Review terms of reference
Download – interim findings of the Sydney Metro Review
Download – final report of the Sydney Metro Review