A major milestone has been reached in the delivery of the Sydney Metro West project, with excavation of the Hunter Street metro station cavern now complete.
Excavation has been underway for 20 months to create the giant cavern, which measures 180-metres long, 28 metres wide and 20 metres high.
Hunter Street Station will serve as the final stop on the 24-kilometre Sydney Metro West line that will double rail capacity between Greater Parramatta and the Sydney CBD.
When the line opens in 2032, the station, which will have entrances on the corner of George and Hunter streets and on the corner of O’Connell and Bligh streets, is expected to be the busiest on the Sydney Metro West network.
To build the station cavern, one roadheader and a team of 57 workers removed more than 240,000 tonnes of material, enough to fill more than 290 Olympic-size swimming pools.
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Sydney Metro is a jointly funded public transport project by the Federal and New South Wales governments.
The project’s scope involves building, operating and maintaining a network of four metro lines, 46 stations and 113 kilometres of new metro rail, scheduled to open in 2032.
The project will connect Sydney’s northwest, west, southwest and greater west with new metro services with fully accessible stations.
The metro program includes the operational M1 Line and three projects under construction, the Southwest, West and Western Sydney Airport projects.
Once completed, Sydney’s new metro railway will have a target capacity of about 40,000 customers per hour, compared to Sydney’s current suburban system which can reliably carry 24,000 people an hour per line.
For more information, visit: www.sydneymetro.info/
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