Metro Below: Sydney Walking Tour

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🚇 Metro Below: Discover What’s Beneath

🔎 What You’ll Experience

• 🏛️ Visit six of Sydney’s newest Metro stations, travelling from Waterloo to Victoria Cross while exploring their architecture, engineering and design.

• 🧸 Discover what archaeologists found beneath Waterloo—including children’s toys, marbles, a telegraph transmitter and an unusual surface paved with old beer bottles.

• 🏗️ Hear how Central’s Metro platforms were constructed beneath a working railway station, including a temporary platform built in just 23 days.

• ⚙️ Learn how enormous roadheaders carved Gadigal’s station caverns from sandstone, creating spaces that ordinary tunnel-boring machines could not.

• 🏦 Discover the engineering used to protect the heritage-listed 50 Martin Place while the new station was excavated beneath it.

• 🚇 Hear the story of Kathleen, the 975-tonne machine that tunnelled beneath Sydney Harbour—and the remarkable woman behind its name.

• 🕰️ See Sundial at Victoria Cross, a 12-metre digital artwork that uses images of bushland and changing light to reflect the hours and seasons.

• 🤖 Learn about the technology operating across the network, including driverless trains, platform screen doors and modern safety systems.

• 🎨 See how public art, architecture and carefully selected materials connect each station with its surrounding neighbourhood, history and identity.

• 📖 Hear the challenges, decisions and human stories behind the development of one of Sydney’s largest transport projects.