Local primary school students visited the Sydney Metro West site at Clyde to mark the final tunnelling segment to be installed for the Western Tunnelling Package.
Around 30 students in years five and six from Westmead Primary School decorated the segment with handprint artwork before it was lowered into the tunnels. The segment was then transported to tunnel boring machine (TBM) Dorothy for installation within the tunnel at the Westmead metro station site.
More than 150,000 segments – together weighing a total of 600,000 tonnes, equivalent to 12,000 shipping containers – have been produced at a purpose-built local facility in Eastern Creek to line the walls of the new 24-kilometre Metro West tunnels.
This milestone marks the end of a massive production effort that started in November 2022 and has involved more than 500 workers.
Between Sydney Olympic Park and Westmead, it has taken two years for the TBMs to install the 60,000 concrete segments needed to line the twin metro tunnels.
The world-class metro connecting the Sydney CBD to Greater Parramatta will provide millions of commuters with fast and easy access to some of Sydney’s most frequented destinations, including Sydney Olympic Park – the city’s home of sports and entertainment – Parramatta, Sydney’s second-busiest CBD, and Westmead, Australia’s leading health and education hub.
Sydney Metro West is set to double rail capacity between Greater Parramatta and the Sydney CBD, delivering faster, easier and more reliable journeys, while supporting jobs, housing growth and new communities across western Sydney.
