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Are these the world’s first tunnel boring machine (TBM) besties? Sydney Metro West TBMs Beatrice and Daphne have completed the 11-kilometre section of tunnels between The Bays and Sydney Olympic Park and they got the job done in their own unique way – tunnelling side-by-side and celebrating milestones together almost the entire journey. The dynamic duo completed the historic first double breakthrough in the southern hemisphere when they arrived at the Five Dock Station site in November 2023 and then broke through within seconds of each other to reach the Sydney Olympic Park metro station site. Check out their tunnelling journey below 👇

Sydney Metro takes its hats off to teachers to celebrate World Teacher Day! Thank you to teachers supporting Sydney Metro’s education program FastTracking the Future. In 2023/24, Sydney Metro experts visited 40 schools near our project alignments. We’ve engaged with almost 6,200 students working on Sydney Metro’s curriculum-aligned education resources, including Fun with Robots incursion, Inquiry-based Learning Program with University of Western Sydney and the Metro Minds STEAM Challenge. To learn more about our award-winning education program or to get your school involved, visit https://lnkd.in/er53DPAg #WorldTeachersDay2024 #Hatsofftoteachers #WTD2024

Two thumbs up if you’re loving the new Sydney Metro line 👍👍 There have now been more than 10 million metro trips on the M1 Northwest & Bankstown Line since opening in August...and counting! To celebrate, here are a few of your favourite ways to use the new metro: 📍 The most popular metro journey is between Chatswood and Central 📍 Chatswood is the busiest station 📍 Central’s metro platforms are the busiest for interchanging passengers 📍 The busiest hour to travel is 8am to 9am 📍 On the weekend, Saturdays are typically busier than Sundays 📍 Thursday 17 October holds the record for the most popular day on the line with 256,000 metro trips recorded in one day! Is your commute one of the 10 million metro trips?

Now that’s a waterfront view! Check out these before and after images of Sydney Metro West’s The Bays Station site from February 2022 to June this year. A hive of major construction activity is taking place against the backdrop of stunning Sydney Harbour to construct the 24-kilometre line that will connect Greater Parramatta to Hunter Street in the Sydney CBD. When Metro West services start, it will be just a few minutes metro ride from The Bays to Hunter Street.  

Welcome to the family, TBM Ruby! Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Ruby is the sixth and final TBM to join the city-shaping Sydney Metro West project, linking up with TBM Jessie to carve out the final 2.3-kilometre section of twin railway tunnels deep below Darling Harbour and into Sydney’s CBD. TBM Ruby is named after Ruby Payne-Scott, Australia’s first radio astronomer, and is uniquely decorated with colourful handprints from a recent staff family day. Hi-five Ruby! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gthBVHbK

What a difference two weeks can make! The Southwest metro conversion is in full swing and with a crew of 800 workers on site daily, there’s been a lot already ticked off the to-do list, including: ✅Approximately 324 metres of security and rail fencing installed ✅80 CCTV cameras, customer help points and passenger information displays installed ✅25 platform screen doors installed at Bankstown Station ✅Fourteen mechanical gap fillers, to close the gap between the platform and train, installed at Dulwich Hill Station ✅Excavation of part of the existing platform and realigning tracks at Bankstown to create the space that will become the central plaza between the Metro and Sydney Trains stations ✅Testing and commissioning of equipment to prepare for the start of train testing Sydney Metro would like to thank the local community for their patience while work is completed to the upgrade the T3 Bankstown line to modern metro standards. For information regarding alternate travel plans while the conversion work is being carried, visit: https://lnkd.in/gUzUmbYV

Seeing double 👀 Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) Beatrice and Daphne have reached the end of their 18-month journey carving out the 11-kilometre tunnel from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park. The two TBMs tunnelled side-by-side, breaking through at Sydney Olympic Park metro site on the same day! The breakthrough coincides with another major milestone for Sydney Metro West as planning approval on a new metro-oriented town centre above the future Sydney Olympic Park metro station has been received, creating more than 300 new residential dwellings with direct access to fast and reliable metro services. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gQ_iTgPB

Milestone alert 🚨 All excavation for the Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport tunnelling project from St Marys to Bradfield is officially complete! This included: ◾ 9.8 kilometres of twin tunnels dug by tunnel boring machines Eileen, Marlene, Catherine and Peggy ◾ Four stub tunnels dug by road headers ◾ 39 cross passages dug by remote control excavators ◾ Excavation of five station boxes, two services facility shafts and one temporary tunnelling support shaft Over 3,630,000 tonnes of material was excavated to build these structures. That’s a whopping 581 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Well done to the team on this massive achievement!

Did you know the artwork adorning the walls at Barangaroo Station is a tribute to the area's natural landscape?    Created by artist Khaled Sabsabi, ‘In Time we Shall’ features the native tree species used in the Barangaroo headland and their significance in continuous Aboriginal cultural life.   Seven giant copper and mild steel trees ( 5m and 3m in diameter) emerge from the sandstone wall of the eastern concourse. Four copper bands circle around the columns featuring the Gadigal names of these trees.   The artist worked closely with Aboriginal communities to create this artwork and reflect the importance of trees in local culture. Trees feature in legends across many cultures, maintaining their mystique throughout time and place, including being called “the tree of life” and “the tree of knowledge”.  

Can’t go around it, can’t go through it… we had to go above it! Greater Sydney’s new metro line has been constructed over the Warragamba Pipelines, a task that required a superior level of engineering and 24 months of planning with our friends at @WaterNSW. Watch how it happened 👇 The 23-kilometre Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport alignment will take passengers belowground through tunnels, above ground on viaducts and bridges and includes sections at ground level. This variation allows the metro to integrate with existing critical infrastructure in the area like the pipelines and Luddenham Road. For more: https://lnkd.in/ga7MrQBj