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What Sydney Metro means for you

Transport for NSW will ensure the recently discovered site of the White Hart inn will be conserved and its historical importance recognised. Teams working on the North West Rail Link discovered the historic site of the inn at Kellyville. Mystery surrounds the building, which was built in the late 1820s and destroyed some time around the turn of the 20th century. Archaeological experts have carefully excavated the site and catalogued incredible finds, including a toothpaste canister with Queen Victoria's image on it, medicine bottles, a doll's leg and coins that are almost 200 years old.

Sydney Metro Northwest will take 12,000 cars off the road in an average two-hour morning peak; that’s 14 million cars a year. Here’s some of them – a day in the life of the intersection of Windsor Road and Rouse Hill Drive at Rouse Hill, captured high above as we built the skytrain.

Apprentices and trainees are playing a big role in building Sydney Metro, which is a demonstration project for the NSW Government’s new Infrastructure Skills Legacy Program. We’re working hard to provide job opportunities for young people and help existing workers learn new skills.

A solar panel array as big as a football field was completed in November 2017 on Sydney Metro, Australia’s biggest public transport project. It took less than six months to install the 3,287 panels on the roof of the maintenance building at Sydney Metro HQ at Rouse Hill, a suburb in the city’s North West. It is one of the biggest solar power systems mounted on a building in Australia – another milestone that shows the scale of the city-shaping Sydney Metro project. The solar panel system is the biggest on any NSW Government building and covers more than 6,500 square metres – two-thirds of the maintenance building roof at the Sydney Metro Trains Facility at Rouse Hill. It will generate approximately 1.5million kilowatt hours of electricity per year – that’s enough to power about 270 average homes for a year. The electricity generated by the panels will be used to power some of the Sydney Metro railway stations as well as the maintenance facility, where Sydney’s new metro trains will be serviced. The trains themselves use high voltage power not related to the solar array. However, the trains use regenerative braking – this means extra energy from a slowing train can be recycled back into the power system and used by nearby trains.

In September 2016 Sydney Metro’s 4km skytrain is more than 50 percent complete. Come for a ride from Cudgegong Station to Rouse Hill Station.

Sydney Metro: West update, March 2018

It’s full steam ahead at Sydney Metro HQ at Rouse Hill. Take a look and see what’s happening now – and what the site will soon look like.

Sydney Metro services are one step closer with the deck of our Windsor Road bridge in place at Rouse Hill. Take a look how we did it – and what comes next.

Sydney’s first metro train has arrived and is getting ready to hit the tracks and revolutionise public transport in Australia. The six carriages of the first metro train are now at the Sydney Metro Trains Facility at Rouse Hill and being prepared for testing over the coming months. Sydney Metro Program Director Rodd Staples inspected the first train, which is the highlight of the project for him so far.