Workers are rushing to install platform screen doors, mechanical gap-fillers and security fencing to clear the way for testing of driverless trains.
Crucial testing of driverless trains along the final stretch of Sydney’s mega M1 metro line is due to start by February after workers made significant progress upgrading one of the city’s oldest rail lines.of the T3 Bankstown line began, 160 out of 360 platform screen doors have been installed at 10 stations being upgraded, while the rest are due to be fitted by month’s end.
Since major construction started in late September, all but a kilometre of a 21-kilometre stretch of security and rail segregation fencing has been installed. “We are making every second of this closure count so that people living in Sydney’s south-west will have access to game-changing, fast, reliable and safe metro services,” she said.between Tallawong in the north-west and Bankstown once the conversion of the old line is completed. The city-section between Chatswood and Sydenham opened in late August.
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