Sydney Metro’s landmark new railway bridge over Windsor Road at Rouse Hill has been awarded global project of the year by a prestigious international engineering organisation.
The US-based Engineering News-Record described the bridge as elegant, innovative and sustainable.
The 270m curved cable-stayed railway bridge, similar in design to Sydney’s Anzac Bridge, is the first of its kind built in Australia.
A major Sydney railway line has been picked up and moved in just 48 hours, to make way for the brand new Sydney Metro.
The Sydney Trains T1 North Shore Line had to be permanently realigned, between Chatswood and Artarmon, because the existing suburban railway tracks were effectively blocking the new city-bound Sydney Metro.
A team of 250 workers completed the critical track work at Chatswood, so that Sydney Metro can be extended from the city’s north west into the Sydney CBD and beyond to Bankstown.
Sydney’s Metro North West Line has been in service for one year.
Australia’s first fully-accessible railway has carried almost 20 million customers on more than 105,000 services, with a customer satisfaction rating of 96 per cent.
The fleet of 22 driverless trains has travelled more than 3.8 million kilometres, or 93 times around the equator.
More than 11 million customer journeys have been made on the Metro North West Line, with Sydney’s new driverless trains travelling over 1.7 million kilometres – or 42 times around the equator.
In its first five months of operations, the new metro has ramped up to meet key milestones and is now carrying more than 75,000 people each weekday.
The latest operating data shows:
Work to upgrade the suburban railway between Epping and Chatswood to modern metro rail standards is now complete.
Customers using the metro stations at Macquarie Park, Macquarie University and North Ryde will have almost four times as many trains an hour than before as part of Sydney Metro.
Upgrading and converting the line to become part of Sydney’s new metro system was a major undertaking and a ‘project within a project’.
Sydney Metro opens on Sunday 26 May.
There are 13 railway stations between Tallawong and Chatswood and 4,000 new commuter car parking spaces.
Customers won’t need a timetable – you’ll just turn up and go.
For all trip planning information go here: https://transportnsw.info/metro
Final commissioning of Sydney’s new generation of driverless trains is currently underway with more than 180,000km of testing complete. A trip around the Earth at the equator is 40,000km.
Join us for the first chance to see Sydney Metro’s new Rouse Hill Station.
We're giving the community a chance to take a tour of the new Rouse Hill Station on Sunday 7 April 2019. This is the last of the eight community days, which we’ve held for people to take a look at the new Sydney Metro stations in the north west.
Registration for this event has now closed.
Join us for the first look at the new Castle Hill Station on Sunday 31 March.
Register now and come take a walk around Castle Hill, touring the new station including the platforms, pedestrian link and station concourse, which are nearing the end of construction.
Join us for the first look at the new Hills Showground Station on Sunday 10 March.
This event will be held at a construction site. This is a ticketed event only and terms and conditions apply. It will not be open to the public and bookings are essential.
Registration for this event has now closed.
Register your email at sydneymetro.info/newsletter-subscription to get the latest project news and invitations to upcoming community events.
Deep under the heart of the CBD, Sydney Metro’s new Pitt Street Station is quickly taking shape with three roadheader tunnelling machines excavating around the clock.
More than 116,400 tonnes of crushed rock has been excavated to form the station caverns 20 metres underneath Pitt and Castlereagh streets, where the future platforms will be located.
The Pitt Street Station caverns will be about 240 metres in length and 11.5 metres wide when finished.
