More than 100 passenger trains an hour will pass through sprawling underground stations beneath Martin Place within the next six years.
line from the CBD to Parramatta. The two will be connected by pedestrian tunnels.
“It’s the heart of the interchange for the city. This will be very busy, but obviously the space fits it,” Garden said. “If you’re coming from Metro West and you want to go to Central Station, for example, you’ll go and interchange here.”Wrapped around the Eastern Suburbs Line, the City and Southwest station’s tentacles stretch between the two existing rail lines at Martin Place. The existing railway tunnels curve through the southern part of the site.
Sydney Metro City and Southwest project director Hugh Lawson said the two new underground stations would make Martin Place a super transport hub. Old plans and drawings did not entirely match what contractors found as the bank’s foundations ran deeper than the records showed. “That meant we had to change the design and manage that from an engineering perspective,” Lawson said. “We had to make sure that we could do that whole excavation without having to close the Eastern Suburbs railway line.”
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