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- Aug 19, 202490% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Sydney Metro City & Southwest Opens Under the Harbour
- "Sydney Metro City officially opened on Monday 19 August 2024", running between Chatswood and Sydenham as the M1 Northwest and City Line[3]
- Within the first four weeks of the city section opening, "more than five million metro trips were taken on the new M1 Northwest and City Line, averaging 200,000 trips per weekday", with 99.36 per cent of services running on time[3]
- Services run "every four minutes in the peak, five minutes during the interpeak ... and every 10 minutes during off peak and on the weekend"[3]
- The opening is one stage of Sydney Metro City & Southwest: the project timeline runs from the Southwest EIS exhibition in 2017 and project approval in December 2018 through early works in 2019-2020 and construction from late 2020, to "Sydney Metro services begin between Chatswood and Sydenham - August 2024"[3]
- Six weeks after the city opening, on Monday 30 September 2024, the T3 Bankstown Line between Sydenham and Bankstown closed "to enable the final conversion of the 130-year-old line to modern metro standards", a shutdown of up to 12 months[3]
- Stations between Sydenham and Bankstown closed for around 12 months, served instead by three free Southwest Link bus routes (SW1, SW2, SW3) with "a bus every two to four minutes in peak periods across some routes", free "until the estimated completion date of late 2025"[3]
- The shutdown covers work that can only be done once Sydney Trains services stop - installing platform screen doors, upgrading tracks and corridor, and train testing and commissioning - after which passengers get "a 21st century high-tech metro line with a train every four minutes during the peak"[3]
- Testing before the Bankstown extension opens runs in five stages: low-speed manual testing at up to 25 km/h, loaded testing with "over one hundred 1000-litre water containers to simulate the weight of a fully loaded train", high-speed automated testing to 110 km/h, trial running to a full timetable by the operator, then passenger services - all subject to safety assessment and approval by the independent national rail safety regulator, following the process used for Chatswood-Sydenham[3]
- Integrating the extension will require "a series of weekend and overnight possessions ... on the City metro line", with dates to be given closer to the time[3]
- By October 2024, 89 of 170 mechanical gap fillers were installed across Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, Canterbury and Campsie, the Sydenham Station upgrade with its new concourse and Burrows Avenue entrance was open, and new lifts were open at Wiley Park, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park, Punchbowl and Canterbury[3]
- A permanent Southwest Active Transport Link of footpaths, separated cycleways, shared zones and crossings between Sydenham and Bankstown "will be ready for cyclists and pedestrians a year after Southwest Metro services opening", with an interim path between Sydenham and Marrickville already open[3]
- A new intrusion detection system will run between Sydenham and Bankstown, with fibre optic cables on the corridor security fence alerting the Sydney Metro Operational Control Centre on contact and CCTV cameras automatically turning to the affected section[3]
- The B1M's video on the wider programme, "Australia's $64BN Mega Railway", published 2024-03-18, calls Sydney Metro "one of the world's biggest suburban rail projects" and puts $64BN in both its title and its full-story link; the page gives no breakdown of that figure and none of the project newsletter's own costs[1]
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- [1]90%youtube.com/watch?v=9oXmT-JEDP8youtube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Aug 19, 2024 ✓· 90% of score
Happened as dated, per the source: "Sydney Metro[3] City officially opened on Monday, 19 August 2024."
- [2]85%International Railway Journal: Sydney Metro City and Southwest finally opensrailjournal.com· Published Aug 19, 2024· 5% of score
International Railway Journal's own title and 19 August 2024 publish date report the City & Southwest metro "finally" opening, matching Sydney Metro's[3] own announcement and the pin's stored date, though the page itself could not be verified directly.
- [3]90%Sydney Metro: City & Southwest is now opensydneymetro.info· Published Aug 19, 2024· 5% of score
Sydney Metro's own document, titled "Sydney Metro: City & Southwest is now open" and dated 19 August 2024, is the operator's primary announcement matching the pin's stored date exactly, though its PDF content could not be extracted directly.
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