The Sydney Metro City line opened on 19 August, adding 15.5-kilometres of new metro rail to the city with frequent passenger services operated by driverless trains
The new section of the M1 Northwest & Bankstown Line opening in August extends the existing Metro North West line from Chatswood, below the harbour and under the Sydney CBD, then out to Sydenham.
It includes new underground stations at Crows Nest, Victoria Cross, Barangaroo, Martin Place, Gadigal and Waterloo, as well as new metro platforms at Central and Sydenham.
Fast and reliable metro services arrive at each station every four minutes in the peak. No need for a timetable, just turn up and go.
This transformative new section of railway is the next stage of the M1 Northwest & Bankstown Line, which now extends 51.5-kilometres through Sydney with stops at 21 stations between Tallawong and Sydenham. The remaining 13-kilometres of the M1 Line will open after the conversion of 10 existing stations on the T3 Bankstown Line.
The newly expanded metro network provides unrivalled connectivity to Sydney’s employment, financial and retail districts; unlocks the Barangaroo harbourside precinct by delivering its first railway station and has capacity to move more people across Sydney Harbour in the busiest hour of the peak than the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Harbour Tunnel combined.
The weekday timetable will be in play across the integrated network, with a train arriving every four minutes during the peak and every seven minutes throughout the day during the interpeak period. After a few weeks, the 7-minute interpeak service will move to a 5-minute interpeak service on weekdays.
A total of 445 new metro services will run through the heart of the city each weekday, with room to move around 34,000 people every hour during peak periods, significantly alleviating pressure on existing transport options and road networks.
New turn up and go metro services are the fastest way to get from Sydney’s north into the Sydney CBD, with a trip on the metro from Chatswood to Martin Place taking 11 minutes, while a journey along the full alignment, from Sydenham to Tallawong, taking under 60 minutes.
A game-changing 2,645 new metro services now travel through the heart of the city each week, moving more than 37,000 people in the AM peak.
This represents a 160 per cent patronage growth on Sydney Metro services in the AM peak when compared to the existing Tallawong to Chatswood section.
More than 264,000 trips are expected to be taken on the line from Tallawong to Sydenham on a typical weekday.
Sydney’s new M1 Line includes:
- A train every four minutes in the peak, seven minutes in the interpeak (gradually increasing over the first few months to ultimately achieve a train every five minutes during interpeak on weekdays) and every 10 minutes during off peak and on the weekends.
- 445 services a day
- Six fully accessible new stations at Crows Nest, Victoria Cross, Barangaroo, Martin Place, Gadigal and Waterloo, along with new platforms at Central and Sydenham.
- Seamless interchange with multiple transport modes at all stations, with direct interchange with Sydney Trains services at Martin Place, Central and Sydenham
- More than 900 bike storage spaces.
- Uninterrupted network mobile coverage.
- Each new station is equipped with platform screen door technology to keep people and objects safely away from tracks.
- Safe journeys monitored by a state-of-the-art control centre, with approx. 100 CCTV cameras at every station and 38 cameras inside each train.
Passengers have fast metro travel times including from Victoria Cross in North Sydney, under the harbour to Barangaroo in 3 minutes, between Martin Place and Central in 4 minutes and from Sydenham to Chatswood in 22 minutes.
The T3 Bankstown Line will close later this year for up to 12 months to complete the final metro conversion works and in 2025, Southwest Sydney will have turn-up-and-go metro services every four minutes in the peak directly into Sydney CBD.
A comprehensive and integrated transport plan will be in place to keep people moving, including Southwest Link– dedicated, high-frequency bus services between Sydenham and Bankstown train stations.
The closure of the T3 Bankstown Line will not occur until the new City section of the line provides a reliable service for commuters from Sydenham into the CBD.
