Construction is now finished on Victoria’s Town Hall Station, one of five stations being delivered as part of the Metro Tunnel project.
Town Hall Station sits under Swanston Street between Collins and Flinders streets, giving commuters direct access to Federation Square, Birrarung Marr, Southbank, the Arts Centre and St Paul’s Cathedral. Its main entrance will open onto a rebuilt City Square.
A new pedestrian underpass, connected to the heritage-listed Campbell Arcade and Degraves Street subway, will link Town Hall Station directly into Flinders Street Station, so you can change between the Metro Tunnel and the City Loop without tapping off.
Town Hall’s 18 metre-wide platforms are among the widest underground metro platforms in the world and its ‘trinocular’ design of three overlapping tunnels at platform level features a cathedral-like arched ceiling.
The total space excavated for Town Hall Station, including the platform and concourse levels, was 260 metres long and as deep as a five-storey building, up to 33 metres underground.
Each of the eight concourse columns is made up of a 7.5-metre concrete post plus three 6.5-metre steel branches extending to the ceiling.
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The station will have nine retail and hospitality spaces, with four under City Square and five at Town Hall Place on Swanston Street.
Town Hall Station will have 44 escalators and 12 lifts when all entrances are open.
Building the station’s internal structures used more than 7,000 cubic metres of concrete and more than 2,200 tonnes of steel.
The station’s 18-metre-wide platforms are 220 metres long and 27 metres below street level.
With construction complete, Metro Trains crews will now train and test at the station.
Jacinta Allan, Victorian Premier, said this the first new station in Melbourne’s CBD in 40 years
“We invested in public transport – and just look at the results,” she said.
“The Metro Tunnel will cut congestion and get you to work, uni and home sooner – and it opens this year.”
For more information, visit: bigbuild.vic.gov.au
