Sydney Metro West

Work on the Parramatta Metro Station is planned to begin this year. Excavation will occur in stages and will take up to 12 months to complete.

The new underground metro station will be located on the block bounded by George, Macquarie, Church and Smith streets. The station box will be about 192 metres by 25 metres and 28 metres deep. 

Construction of the diaphragm wall (a permanent retention structure that will be constructed around the perimeter of the station box to form the outer walls) is planned to commence this year. This work will require the use of cranes, piling rigs, excavators and rock breakers. 

For more information see the January 2023 newsletter.
 

Throughout December and January enabling work at the existing Westmead Station to prepare the site for construction of Sydney Metro will continue. This work primarily involves the relocation of existing services within the rail corridor.

Other work: 

• Removal of redundant cabling infrastructure
• Cable pulling and rail signalling work
• Signalling infrastructure commissioning work
• Low voltage commissioning at the station
• Rectification and clean-up work
• Spoil removal.

More information and update

Construction of the 200-metre-long, 37-metre-wide, and 27-metre-deep station box has started and will take around 13 months to complete.

To construct the station box, a total of 468,000 tonnes of rock and soil will be excavated, equivalent to 78 Olympic swimming pools.

The site will also be used as the extraction point for four of the six tunnel boring machines being used to construct the twin tunnels for Sydney Metro West. For more information click here.

Extended work hours
Starting November, low impact work within the Sydney Olympic Park metro station site outside standard construction hours will begin. This work may include loading out of excavated material between 5:30am and 7am, Monday to Friday and applying shotcrete onto the excavated walls inside the station box between 6pm and 10:30pm, Monday to Friday.

An Environmental Impact Statement for over and adjacent station development at Sydney Olympic Park metro station is on exhibition until 13 December 2022. Find out more and have your say.
 

More information and updates.

Extended working hours will take place around the Clyde Metro Station site between 6pm and 7am over three nights from Wednesday 7 December and Wednesday 14 December 2022.

There will be no construction activities over the holiday period from Friday 23 December 2022 to Sunday 8 January 2023 inclusive. Work will recommence from Monday 9 January 2023. Security will monitor the site during this period.
 

More information and updates.

Have your say on the Parramatta and Sydney Olympic Park precincts

The NSW Government is inviting the community to have their say on the mega Sydney Metro West project including the seven buildings planned for above or adjacent to stations on the 24km Sydney Metro West line. 

This is your opportunity to respond to plans for four (4) new buildings at the Parramatta metro precinct and three (3) buildings at Sydney Olympic Park metro precinct.

These buildings will provide public open spaces, retail at ground level, and opportunities for commercial and residential spaces.

Feedback received during this stage will set the framework for the next phase of planning and design work.  

The community will be invited to give feedback again when details for the buildings and surroundings will be exhibited.  

Have Your Say
Please submit your comments on Sydney Olympic Park metro over and adjacent station development external site and Parramatta metro over station development external site before 13 December 2022.

More information - meet the Sydney Metro team 
The community is invited to attend information sessions and talk to the Sydney Metro team about the proposed over and adjacent station developments.

Monday, 21 November 2022
Club Parramatta, 2 Macquarie Street, Parramatta
Session 1: 11am-2pm
Session 2: 4pm-7pm

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Sydney Metro information booth, Parramatta Farmers Market, 
Centenary Square, Parramatta
Session: 10am-2pm

Monday, 28 November 2022
Forest Room, Novotel, 11A Olympic Boulevard, Sydney Olympic Park
Session 1: 11am-2pm
Session 2: 4pm-7pm 

More information:

Visit the Metro West site https://caportal.com.au/tfnsw/sydmetrowest/places

Call the Sydney Metro 24 hour Community Information Line call 1800 612 173 ((7 days a week).

For project enquiries, or complaints about construction work, please get in touch with Sydney Metro by sending an enquiry or email sydneymetrowest@transport.nsw.gov.au (note responses are sent during business hours only).

Construction work in and around the future Parramatta, Westmead and Sydney Olympic Park metro station sites will be ongoing throughout July.

Some activities will generate noise, but this will be minimised as much as possible. Measures are in place to mitigate construction impacts, including noise and vibration monitoring and dust suppression.

Access to businesses will be maintained unless arrangements are made prior to the start of works.

This month out-of-hours work begins at Clyde, including:

• Deliveries of oversized equipment on six nights from Friday 1 July to Sunday 17 July 2022 between 10pm and 5am. Deliveries will enter and exit site via Unwin Street at the Rosehill Services Facility and unload during standard construction hours.
• Utility work on Martha Street will continue to Sunday 14 August 2022 between 7pm to 5am Sunday to Fridays. 

Detailed information can be found here. 

Construction work in and around the future Parramatta, Westmead and Sydney Olympic Park metro station sites has begun.

Access to buildings and driveways will be maintained, traffic controllers will be in place, some parking maybe temporarily restricted in some locations. Environmental measures to mitigate construction impacts including noise and vibration and dust will also be undertaken.

Standard construction hours are Monday to Friday 7am to 6pm and Saturday 8am to 6pm.

During April and May:

• United Lane in Parramatta will be closed for around six weeks to allow for the installation of scaffolding around 48 Macquarie Street to prepare for demolition works.
• Footpaths around Horwood Place, between George and Macquarie streets Parramatta, will be closed from time to time, with pedestrian detours in place, to allow for awning removal, scaffolding and demolition work.
• In Westmead, TfNSW will be undertaking enabling works at the existing Westmead Station to prepare for construction of Sydney Metro. This work primarily involves the relocation of existing services within the rail corridor.
• In May, on-street parking in some sections of Alexandra Avenue Westmead will be removed.
• Site preparation work continues within the Sydney Olympic Park metro station site and surrounding streets. The main activities include utility relocation work, and demolition of Sydney Metro-owned properties. Piling and excavation work has also started.

For details on metro station construction please see:

• Parramatta Metro Station
• Westmead Metro Station
• Sydney Olympic Park Metro Station

A new fleet of TBMs, including Australia’s first autonomous machines, will build 24-kilometre tunnels from the Sydney CBD to Parramatta with tunnelling from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park scheduled to start at the end of this year.

Autonomous machines will be used to build twin nine-kilometre rail tunnels between Sydney Olympic Park and Westmead. These two mega machines will utilise innovative artificial intelligence software, to automatically steer, operate and monitor a number of TBM functions.

The two autonomous TBM’s are expected to be in the ground by the end of 2023 to deliver the metro rail tunnels from Sydney Olympic Park to Westmead.

Each autonomous machine is 1,266 tonne, 165 metres long, and designed to excavate through sandstone and shale.

They will tunnel an average of 200 metres per week with a team of 15 workers per shift.

The Gamuda Australia and Laing O’Rourke Consortium has been awarded the contract to deliver nine kilometres of twin metro rail tunnels between Sydney Olympic Park and Westmead.

This is the second major tunnelling package awarded on the city-shaping project.

Work is underway to deliver twin tunnels between The Bays and Sydney Olympic Park following the contract awarded to Acciona Ferrovial Joint Venture last year.

Geotechnical investigations are being done along the length of the Sydney Metro West alignment.

More than 50 bore holes are being drilled, ranging in depth from 10 metres to 100 metres, to inform the final design of the tunnels and stations.

Data captured from each borehole includes the depth of each layer of soil and rock, the properties and strength of the soil and rock and the type of soil and rock in each location – for example, determining if its Ashfield Shale, Mittagong Formation or Hawkesbury Sandstone.

Two huge tunnel boring machines (TBM) have been ordered to build tunnels for the Sydney Metro West project. The first of six TBMs being used to build the 24 kilometre tunnels from the Sydney CBD to Parramatta.

The two machines are part of the $1.96 billion Central Tunnelling Package awarded in July to the Acciona Ferrovial Joint Venture.

Each TBM will tunnel an average of 200 metres per week and will be operated by a team of 15 workers per shift as they dig the 11 kilometre twin tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park.

The two borers are 1,266 tonne, 165 metre long double-shield, hard rock, gripper-type TBMs, designed to excavate through sandstone and shale.

Strategically located to the north of the existing Parramatta Station, Parramatta Metro Station will be located on the block bounded by George, Macquarie, Church and Smith streets.

One station entrance will be on Horwood Place and a second station entrance location is to be determined.

Parramatta Metro Station will support Parramatta CBD as a major employment growth centre, boosting jobs and improving connections across Greater Sydney. It will provide easy, efficient and accessible interchange with buses and Parramatta Light Rail.

The new metro station will integrate with the proposed Civic Link, a green, pedestrianised public space from Parramatta Square in the south to Parramatta River in the north.

More information and updates

At Westmead, new metro platforms will be located next to the existing Westmead Station providing an easy above-ground interchange with the T1 Western Line and T5 Cumberland Line.

The new station will also provide customers with easy access to Parramatta Light Rail, T-Way buses and other bus services.

Westmead Metro Station will be located on the eastern side of Hawkesbury Road, south of the existing Westmead Station. As well as connecting customers to the Westmead health, education and employment hub, the new metro station will service residential areas experiencing growth and renewal in north and south Westmead. 

More information and updates.

Sydney Olympic Park Metro Station will be located to the south of the existing Olympic Park Station. The station will provide easy interchange with the planned Parramatta Light Rail, the T7 Olympic Park Line and buses.

A metro station at Sydney Olympic Park will reinforce its status as Australia’s premier events, sporting and entertainment precinct and provide further transport options for the 10 million people who visit or stay each year.

The station will sit to the east of Olympic Boulevard with the main station entrances between Herb Elliot Avenue and Figtree Drive and off Dawn Fraser Avenue.

More information and updates.