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HISTORY OF THE SYDNEY METRO
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The Sydney Metro is a fully automated rapid transit system serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales. Currently consisting of one line that opened on 26 May 2019, it runs from Tallawong to Chatswood and consists of 13 stations and 36 km (22.4 mi) of twin tracks, mostly underground. Work is progressing to extend this line from Chatswood to Bankstown, running under Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Central Business District (CBD) with a scheduled 2024 completion. When completed, this line will have 66 km (41.0 mi) of twin tracks and 31 stations.
Two additional lines have been announced; Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport and Sydney Metro West. Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport will run approximately 23 km from St Marys to the planned Aerotropolis Core. It will comprise six stations and service the new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport upon opening in 2026.
Sydney Metro West will run approximately 24 km from Westmead to the Sydney CBD. It is planned to comprise nine stations, serviced by underground twin tracks. The line will also service Parramatta and Sydney Olympic Park upon opening in 2030.
Sydney is the first and currently the only city in Australia with a fully automated (driverless) rapid transit metro system. Plans and projects involving a high speed, rapid transit underground railway in Sydney date at least back to 2008, although an initial proposal was raised as early as 2001. Despite extensive plans for an underground network in the past, disputes over privatisation and funding had hampered government approval, delaying its inception. In spite of difficulties getting the project off the ground, government approval for what was initially known as the North West Rail Link, Sydney's first underground metro, was given in 2013. Route extensions and a name change to the Sydney Metro soon followed.
The network is controlled by the Sydney Metro agency, under the umbrella of Transport for NSW.
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Sydney Metro is Australia’s biggest public transport project.
In 2024, Sydney will have 31 metro stations and more than 66 kilometres of new metro rail, revolutionising the way Australia’s biggest city travels.
By the end of the decade, the network will be expanded to include 46 stations and more than 113 kilometres of world-class metro for Sydney.
Metro means a new generation of world-class fast, safe and reliable trains easily connecting customers to where they want to go. Customers don’t need timetables – they just turn up and go.
Technology will keep customers connected at all stages of their journey, from:
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planning at home using smart phone travel apps
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real time journey information at metro stations and on board trains...
Sydney (approx. 5.3 million inhabitants), capital of the state of New South Wales and largest city in Australia.
In 2019, Sydney added its first metro line to its extensive suburban railway. It is also expanding its light rail network with urban tram lines after having closed its large street tramway network, one of the longest in the world at the time, in 1961.
Sydney Metro opened its first 36 km section in May 2019 to serve the outer north-western suburbs. The fully automated line runs from Chatswood to Tallawong with 13 stations using platform screen doors throughout. It is known as metro north-west, rather than by a line letter and number like the rest of Sydney’s transit system. It includes 28 km of tunnels, 15.5 km of which were new, as well as 12.5 km of existing tunnel which it took over from Sydney Train’s T1 commuter railway between Chatswood and Epping.
