Behind the fence: look into the future
$8.3billion
Stage one of Sydney Metro, Northwest project cost
31stations
31 new state of the art, fully accessible metro stations
Tunnel length
2.8 km Sydney Harbour Tunnel
9 km North Connex
31 km New Sydney Metro tunnels
Australia’s longest railway tunnels
Sydney's new train
Sydney’s new 21st century train will operate exclusively on the Sydney Metro Northwest.
Skytrain
15926859hours
Hours worked to date: April 2017
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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Historical finds: White Hart Inn
Heritage work for the skytrain section of Sydney Metro Northwest uncovered the ruins of an early 19th-century Sydney inn.
Sydney Metro Northwest tunnels
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km
15 km Twin tunnels from Bella Vista to Epping
3600
tonnes
3600 tonnes of concrete made 100,000 segments that line the twin rail tunnels
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segments
100,000 concrete segments made 16,000 concrete rings
100%
4.4 million tonnes of crushed rock generated from tunneling on Sydney Metro Northwest was reused
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...