Works on the Victoria Cross Station in northern Sydney are powering ahead, following the installation of the 70-metre-long metro platform and all platform screen doors.
The underground station provides new metro rail access to the North Sydney business, education and residential area.
From 2024, the station is expected to provide fast travel times to key locations throughout the city, including three minutes to Barangaroo Station, five minutes to Sydney Metro Martin Place Station and nine minutes to Central Station.
The 50-metre-long and 15-metre-wide mezzanine level, which will form the main entrance and exit to the southern section of the platform, has also been completed as part of on-going works on the station. More than 11,000 tonnes of concrete has been poured to date.
The enormous 300-metre-long, 25-metre-wide, and 16-metre-high station cavern is making great progress. The giant cavern is the largest railway cavern in Australia and is 40 per cent bigger than any other cavern built on the Sydney Metro project.
During construction, the cavern has been used to piece together segments of the station, with the delivery of all station components needing to be manoeuvred through the entrance to the site, which is as big as an ordinary garage door.
In the coming months, work at the station will include completing the 100-metre-long and eight-metre-wide main pedestrian walkway that connects the northern end of the station to the metro platform below.
By the end of the year, the station will have 14 new lifts, and work will have progressed on installing the 19 new escalators that will take customers from the platform to various sections of the station.
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