Behind the fence: look into the future
31stations
31 new state of the art, fully accessible metro stations
Metro tunnelling has reached halfway
TBM Mabel made a mighty breakthrough at the new Crows Nest Station site just four weeks after TBM Wendy arrived.
Tunnel length
2.8 km Sydney Harbour Tunnel
9 km North Connex
31 km New Sydney Metro tunnels
Australia’s longest railway tunnels
Travel Calculator
The travel calculator calculates the number of minutes for a journey during stage 1 and stage 2 of the Sydney Metro development. Select a stage and search for a start and end location to find out how many minutes it will take below. The number of minutes is displayed below.
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Hours worked to date: September 2019
Sydney Metro: Barangaroo boat discovery
The oldest boat found in NSW has been uncovered at Barangaroo, where a new Sydney Metro station is being built.
Sydney Metro City & Southwest tunnels
15.5
km
15.5km of twin tunnels are being constructed from Chatswood to Sydenham
379000
tonnes
379,000 tonnes of concrete will be made to produce almost 100,000 segments that will line the twin rail tunnels
100000
segments
Almost 100,000 concrete segments will be made into almost 16,500 concrete rings
100%
Almost 6 million tonnes of crushed rock is estimated to be generated for re-use from the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project.
Blog
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08FebThe last Sydney Metro Northwest tunnel boring machine has been pulled out of the ground in a precision operation... -
08FebThe last Sydney Metro Northwest tunnel boring machine has been pulled out of the ground in a precision operation... -
02FebThree of Sydney Metro Northwest's four mega tunnel boring machines have now finished their job building Australia's longest ever railway tunnels... -
14JanTunnelling has finished on Australia’s longest railway tunnels, with the last of four giant tunnelling machines completing work on Sydney Metro Northwest... -
08JanThe third Sydney Metro Northwest tunnel boring machine to finish tunnelling has been pulled out of the ground in a precision operation... -
22DecWork on Sydney Metro Northwest will pause briefly over Christmas – with tunnelling now 99 per cent complete...
