New Metro platforms taking shape

The first metro rail platforms are taking shape on the Sydney Metro City and Southwest project, ahead of its opening in 2024. 
 
Minister for Transport and Roads Andrew Constance said the Waterloo Station platform is almost complete, after seven months of construction involving more than 880 workers.
 
“The NSW Government is focused on creating local jobs in local manufacturing, with the 165 concrete sections for the platforms created in factories in Western Sydney,” Mr Constance said.
 
“More than 5,000 people are currently working on the City and Southwest project and by the time it opens, more than 50,000 will have worked on it.
 
“When Sydney Metro services start through Waterloo, it will take customers just two minutes to get to Central, six minutes to Martin Place and eight minutes to Barangaroo.”
 
Construction of the new 170-metre-long platforms at Waterloo Station has included:

• 1,100 tonnes of concrete poured into specially designed moulds which are assembled to form the platforms;
• 93 of 165 precast concrete sections lifted into place for the platforms. Each concrete section weighs up to 7 tonnes.
• A 45-metre-tall tower crane has lifted the segments into the station ‘box’ 25 metres below the surface.

 
Sydney Metro is being extended from the end of the Metro North West Line at Chatswood, under Sydney Harbour, through the CBD and south west to Bankstown.
 
New metro stations are being built at Crows Nest, Victoria Cross, Barangaroo, Martin Place, Pitt Street and Waterloo, and new underground metro platforms are going in at Central Station.
 
In 2024, Sydney will have a 66 kilometres of standalone driverless metro line.