Sydney Metro West - Overview and Station Locations
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- During 2020, the Sydney Metro West line between Westmead and Sydney CBD was approved!
In this video, I visit the locations of the proposed Sydney Metro West stations. I'll reveal what is there now and show you where the station construction sites will be. I'll also share with you where the station entrances are likely to be.
However, it's not just about the stations, I also visit the location of the planned stabling and maintenance facility at Clyde.
I start at Westmead Station which will be the western terminus for Sydney Metro West.
I then visit the site of the new Parramatta Station and show you what will happen there, including the demolition of the Parramatta City Centre car park which is planned for later this year.
You'll also see some snippets of the Parramatta Light Rail work that is currently taking place.
I then visit the planned Sydney Metro West station locations at Sydney Olympic Park, North Strathfield, Burwood North and Five Dock.
I then cover The Bays station site. Construction work has already started here to enable Tunnel Boring Machines to start boring the tunnels between The Bays and Westmead from late 2022.
I'll finish up by talking about the proposed metro station at Pyrmont and the ongoing process to agree the Sydney Metro West terminus station in Sydney's CBD.
This is a really exciting project and I can't wait to give you future updates over the next few months and years. Do subscribe, so you don't miss out!
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and Sydney Metro West Overview
01:14 Westmead Metro Station
02:35 Parramatta Metro Station
06:50 Clyde Stabling and Maintenance Facility
08:31 Silverwater Services Facility
09:27 Sydney Olympic Park Metro Station
11:22 North Strathfield Metro Station
12:12 Burwood North Station
13:06 Five Dock Station
14:37 The Bays Station
17:01 Pyrmont Station
17:24 Sydney CBD Station
17:39 Outro
Links to Resources Used in this Video
Sydney Metro Interaction Map - caportal.com.au/tfnsw/sydmetr...
Sydney Metro Project Overview Booklet October 2019
www.sydneymetro.info/sites/de...
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Hi Paul. Well, you have made another fascinating and informative presentation of Metro West. The area you showed at White Bay between the old power station and Glebe Island was once known as Rozelle rail yards. The railway serviced the coal loader wharf and the wheat silos. The wheat silos can still be seen but they are no longer in use. This was a very busy port area until Sydney ports was relocated to Port Botany. The flat area adjacent to Anzac Bridge was used for many years by RORO shipping and for storage of vehicles. The old power station provided power for the trams and the railway. There have been plans to convert the power station into apartments but without success because of the amount of traffic it would generate in the local area. There were plans for a Metro many years ago but it was abandoned because the Metro needed to be deep beneath the harbour and the gradient needed to bring the trains from beneath the harbour to the CBD and to Rozelle where a station was planned beneath Rozelle at the intersection of Victoria Rd and Darling Street. I hope this is not too much information for you.
Thanks John. Glad you enjoyed it. Wow! I didn't know there was a rail yard in the past! Interesting that the old power station powered the trams and trains too. Funny, I was thinking that the power station would make an interesting apartment complex. It will be interesting to see what the future plans might be for it. I do remember a Metro plan about 10 years ago that included this area, so it must have been the one you mentioned. I lived in Drummoyne at the time and a few properties along the Victoria Road closed and then the metro plan was scrapped! I suppose the harbour can still be a barrier, even when creating tunnels underneath it. It's never too much information! I always appreciate your input! - It helps make my videos better and I know that other viewers enjoy them too!
It is very good to have a new Metro Line in the coming years.
The locations of Pyrmont and CBD stations were announced today! Pyrmont station will be located between Pyrmont Bridge Road and Union Street, providing easy access to Pyrmont Bridge. The New CBD station will be called Hunter Street. There will be entrances on the corner of Hunter and George Streets, and also on Bligh and O’Connell Streets. So it looks like it will connect really well with Wynyard Station, Martin Place Station and Sydney Light Rail. Exciting times! - Here is a link to the scoping report - rebrand.ly/SMWCBD and video - ua-cam.com/video/6oCL0MiQ_NU/v-deo.html
Its so clear and the color is pretty.
The city is clean too.I enjoyed watching it
Holy cow, Parra has changed so much, used to walk to Parra primary school on Macquarie St back in the 70's, when what is now Westfields was still Grace Bros and the that multi story carpark was the David Jones car park, never had a ferry service back then either :) As a guard on the old SRA we used to shunt livestock trains into what is now Olympic Park, used to be known as Homebush Saleyards
Hi Graeme, thanks for sharing how Parramatta was back in the 70s! Lots has certainly changed since then. I'm not sure if you're aware, but there is a Parramatta Light Rail scheme too. I hope to cover this in a video soon.
Great work Paul. I really enjoy your video work on the Sydney Metro Train Projects... This one Sydney Metro West in the very early stages of pre-construction
Glad you enjoyed this video Tony. It's going to be fun following Sydney Metro West right from the start!
Really great film 🤙🏻 in 10 years time this video will be priceless
LOL! - It will certainly be interesting to watch then! - Glad you enjoyed this video.
Interesting and informative video... keep up the good work
Thanks will do! - I'll be doing updated videos for all the Sydney Metro West stations over the next 3 months. Westmead will be the first. Most of the buildings you saw in this video have now been demolished!
Thanks for these videos - I find them very informative
Glad you like them!
Thanks Paul for your tour of future metro. Today Transport NSW issued their video of where the stations in the city will be & their ease of connecting to other transport.
You’ll be able to finish your video with a visit to those city street corners!
Yes, details appeared in my inbox earlier! Looking forward to doing Part 2 and covering Pyrmont and Hunter Street stations!
Oh yes I’m looking forward to visiting the city again too & having a look at those sites.
Also Barangaroo Metro site, after watching one of your videos
@Paul Perkins Thanks Paul!
THANK YOU SHARE VIDEO
Love your work mate. Hope you collect a dollar for your efforts.
Thanks! - Glad you love what I'm doing.
@12:31 omg thanks to this video I just realised there’s an El Jannah in Burwood 👍
Well spotted!
It's going to be great to be able to walk to The Bays station from Balmain; just hope they preserve the power station and limit high rise in the area. White bay has historically been a port/shipping area, and as you've seen Glebe island is still quite active in industrial shipping. The power station was used to power the trams and trains in the 20th century I believe.
Yes, it's great that Balmain will have access to a metro station (even though its on the edge). I believe the White Bay Power Station is heritage listed, so I reckon that will stay in some shape or form. Yes it used to power trams and trains. If you read Aussie John's comment, you'll find some more history and interesting facts.
Why should they limit highrise @EVBrief?
Thank you very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
The construction site on Macquarie St is for Parramatta Light Rail past Horwood Place
Hi Jeff, yes that's right (although I didn't realise that at the time of filming). I plan to do a video on the Parramatta light rail progress quite soon.
So exciting to imagine the scope of redevelopment around the site of each new station. Planners clearly have a comprehensive vision of how to improve communities for the future by integrating stations into each community.
It’s in sharp contrast to how things are done here in the US where projects languish in political hell and planners suffer from small ideas.
The light rail network here in Sacramento (just two and a half lines) was developed with stations located in industrial areas or single family neighborhoods with a parking lot or two. They serve only bedroom communities thus have limited social or economic benefit. Unbelievable!
I won’t even get into the dilapidated state of the rail cars nor the surliness of the staff. How I wish I was back in Sydney where I grew up!
Thanks for another thorough review of what’s to come.
Yes it's really exciting times in Sydney right now and it's a shame that the US doesn't have the same vision for public transport projects. Glad you enjoyed this video and lovely to hear from an international viewer!
Macquarie St is for Sydney Metro at car park as well for elevator.
Great video. I hope the new city station goes in at Martin Place - which would then become a new major CBD interchange with the Northern and Bankstown metro lines, plus the Eastern Suburbs / Illawarra line. Still think they need to at least put a station box at Camelia as well to future proof for further development too.
Yes Martin Place does seem like a good choice.
Parramatta Light Rail is good for travel and nice for comfortable place.
Good work
Are you doing a video about the Western Sydney Airport Metro?
Yes will do! It's on the list. I guess most of it will be above ground, so it will be interesting to watch this being built.
Westmead site: used to live 2 blocks away from the proposed station. Combined with the light rail the whole area will be transformed. Parramatta site: my favourite spot whilst living in Westmead due to the restaurants there. Now both sites will become Metro station. Westmead station when I was there enjoys 10 minutes city train in off peak (Westmead- Parramatta-strathfield - Redfern - Central express) already very well serviced.
Cool! Yes it certainly will. One of the main reasons for Sydney Metro West is to provide additional capacity between Parramatta and the Sydney CBD. Hope you can get back to Westmead and Parramatta for a visit soon!
@@TransportVlog Yes I went back in August 2020 to repaint my apartment and spent many weekends there. Big changes already with light rail and with the metro station it will transform it further. Thank you for your Vlog. Do you cover the Light Rail in the Westmead to Carlingford line?
@@Woodland26 Yes I do plan to cover Parramatta Light Rail. It will be quite soon!
Bro I used to go to what you showed with Crunch gym and that barber shop in Parramatta 😂 will be sad to see them go... but for good cause!
Yes it is sad, but they will find new homes! And as you say, it's for a good cause!
Glebe island was an old dock that ran around the Balmain peninsula, Glebe peninsula, through to Darling Harbour.
The current L1 Dulwich Hill and inner west line runs along the majority of what was a fright line that connected towards Enfield, port botany, Glebe, and Darling Harbour frieght lines
Yes that makes sense. I knew that much of the L1 line used to be a freight line, but never thought about how that line served Glebe Island.
All good. Learnt a lot of this thru my late grandfather and family who worked for former Freight Corp and have a few maps (somewhere, have to find them) showing freight line maps in Sydney.
The like meet up at Dulwich Hill where the L1 station is which used to connect to freight tracks to go to Port Botany and to the west where the disused track bridge connected to now Port Enfield but formerly known as Delec station near Cosgrove road in Enfield where there is a drive way up to former offices and warehouses that was originally used for UGL and Downer.
Hope they do something with this cause it's sad to see it become disused and in need of repair, though despite it will end up being removed.
Also the Macquarie road work is to do with the light rail. I believe the tracks or at least services such as electrical, drainage etc diversions and reconnections are happening
@@unitpanel Yes that's right. I plan to do a video on Parramatta Light Rail.
@@unitpanel Thanks for sharing this. Yes it would be nice if they do something with this disused line.
Hello Paul Thomas your back for watching a Sydney Metro?
Hi Paul, thanks for sharing all this interesting information. How far with the current Parramatta station be from the Metro Parramatta station? Also, will both stations be called Parramatta? From what I see here, this new Metro line doesn't seem to connect to the Bankstown line. Having the Metro going through Five Dock and Pyrmont sounds interesting. Anyway, take care. Robert.
Hi Robert, I think its about a 10 minute walk. I'll map and time it and include it in my next Sydney West update video. It will be called Parramatta Metro Station. It will connect to the metro to Bankstown in the CBD, but it would probably be quicker to get the train to Bankstown from Parramatta.
@@TransportVlog According to the map, Bankstown is on a separate line joining to the Metro West line in the city. From memory, the Bankstown line continued on to Lidcolme and connected with the Western Sydney standard train line. I remember using this to occasionally get across to Petersham, rather than go to Redfern and change trains. I could also go to Parramatta by changing trains at Lidcolme. Are there any plans to have a direct rail connection between Bankstown and Parramatta? Incidentally, after Sydnham heading into the city, will the Metro trains go through St Peters and Erskinville, or will those stations be for standard trains only?
@@RGC198 Yes that's right. Bankstown will be the western terminus when the City and Southwest extension opens. So the Sydney Metro line will run from Tallawong, via Epping, Chatswood, CBD and Sydenham to Bankstown. There is still a regular service from Bankstown to Lidcombe and that will continue once the Metro opens. I'm not aware of any plans for direct services between Bankstown and Parramatta. Sydney Metro will go underground after Sydenham Station, with the next station being Waterloo. Erskinville and St Peters will transfer to the T4 line being served by trains from Hurstville, Cronulla etc and going to Bondi Junction. Hope this helps. Paul
Also will the Olympic Park Railway station close when the metro opens?
Great question! - I believe it will stay open. It still provides a useful link to Lidcombe, which is a great interchange station for Strathfield, Bankstown, Leppington etc. These journeys would take longer otherwise. Having both Sydney Trains and Metro Trains will boost capacity during major events as well.
I think the metro would be most convenient for residents, and the businesses to the east of the showgounds. The railway should be kept for major events but may not be open every day
Only seen a few of the site before this video. A more northerly route from built on a 9klm viaduct from Fivedock would be more cost effective.
Hi Kevin hope you are doing well and I call you upon to stand with our music school foundation. Glory be to God.
Comments aren't quite right for Parramatta, Macquarie St is the light rail construction zone, and the small site you see is a storage site for the light rail.
Yes that's right. The fences are for Parramatta Light Rail. I do plan to do an update video for the Parramatta Light Rail quite soon.
So it looks like the Paramatta Metro station will be quite a distance away from the existing Paramatta railway station?
Yes that's right. It's probably about a 10 minute walk. Interchange with the T1 will be at Westmead.
@@TransportVlog as the crow flies it quite a short walk. Unfortunately all the convenient pedestrian stations entrances are on the side facing Westmead shops and away from parramatta square. I was thinking of this when I saw where the tram line went. There doesn’t seem to be an interchange between the tram and the heavy rail in parramatta. People would have to cross the bus terminal to get to the train station & that space is not pedestrian friendly. The alternative is the dog leg route under the current rail line. Perhaps they will remodel the parramatta square side of the station to make it accessible to foot traffic.
@@francesconicoletti2547 Yes hopefully they will. It would definitely make sense to have a decent Light Rail to Heavy Rail connection at Parramatta station.
@@TransportVlog visited parramatta today.
Parramatta station now has a huge pedestrian opening on the opposite side to Westfield that opens onto the new parramatta square. Parramatta square open onto Macquarie Street, which has the tram running down it. Cross Macquarie Street and you are with one terrace house of the City Center Car Park site of the metro station. 10 minutes walk between everything maximum. A tunnel joining the stations would make sense but is not essential.
@@francesconicoletti2547 Thank for sharing what is happening at Parramatta station. I think most people will interchange at Westmead. I'm looking forward to getting back to Parramatta to see what's has changed!
Roxy theatre at Parramatta is in your estimated construction zone, but is heritage listed.
Just a google location error, Roxy is outside the zone on the right, as shown in the video.
as shown at 3:39 ?
Thanks for pointing this out. I can't remember seeing the Roxy Theatre when I was there, but then I wasn't particularly looking out for it.
@@suave-rider Yes it is east of Horwood Place.
@@TransportVlog You actually had your back to the Roxy. I remember the Roxy as a cinema with 3 auditoriums with the main auditorium (cinema 1) on the upper level which utilised the original screen from its days as a one screen cinema as well as what once was the Dress circle. Two smaller cinema were built in the former "stalls " area on the lower level. The old world charm of cinema was retained in the conversion to a multiplex cinema centre.
Exciting to see the metro being rolled out across Sydney! Just a shame this particular line is still 9 years from operations.
2027 so technically 6 years away
@@marcozolo3536 The metro west line is due to open in 2030, nine years from now. Thank you. :)
@@Agent44996 well ok then, although initially it said Sydney metro by 2024 and Sydney metro west by 2027, in asia that line would take 4 years tops to construct
My understanding is that 2030 is the planned opening date. However, I'm sure that if it can open earlier it will! - It will definitely be worth the wait!
Parramatta Metro Station is fully of evolution and remastered of kind.
I'm surprised they are terminating in the CBD, ie not going thru to somewhere else such as the eastern suburbs, northern beaches etc
Let's see what happens. Hopefully the CBD station will be designed to facilitate an extension down the road.
@@TransportVlog thinking it further, they would have options at the western end to extend, for example connect to the planned western airport line
It just occurred to me: no Silverwater station itself. There's a lot of light industrial activity there. Surely this must have factored into their thinking.....
I know there were plans for a station at Rydalmere. I'm not sure if that's still being considered. Parramatta to Olympic Park is a long stretch without a station, so it would be good to see an intermediate station somewhere.
@@TransportVlog I reckon there should be (or have been) an additional station under Rozelle - I wonder how difficult is it to retrofit it in. At least I'm glad they've locked Pyrmont Station in - that place for a long time lacked direct access to the Sydney CBD apart from walking via Pyrmont Bridge. (I wonder if they could not have done something similar to Bennelong Bridge near Rhodes and just close off Pyrmont Bridge to private vehicles while still allowing Sydney Buses to go through.)
@@HenryMidfields I think a station in Rozelle would be a little too close to The Bays station. Adding stations afterwards would be extremely difficult. I'm still hoping that an extra station will appear between Parramatta and Olympic Park. Yes, definitely pleased to see the Pyrmont station confirmed :-)
@@TransportVlog Agreed with an extra station between Parra and OP. I foolishly thought Rozelle was further out west until I had a look at the route map! I still think that there should be a station between Balmain/The Bays and Five Dock. Not connecting to, say, Leichhardt North or Lilyfield LRT Station sounds like a missed opportunity for connections. Is there any reason why it goes down under one of the bays on its way to Five Dock?
If a route change for the TBMs is not practical anymore, at least I reckon there should be a branch line from Lilyfield to the Bays and create a feeder service.
@@HenryMidfields I'm not sure why the tunnels go under one of the bays. I know that a key objective is a 20 minute journey time between Parramatta and Sydney CBD, so I guess extra stations would affect that.
Pretty appalling there's no station planned between Parramatta and Sydney Olympic park. There should definitely be a station at Silverwater, its a huge industrial area that is growing with new residential areas popping up as well. Where else in the world is there a metro service where you can have an 8km gap between stations ? Madness !
Yes it is strange. I reckon it's still soon enough to get this changed, if the local residents, businesses and council want it badly enough. Two extra stations were included on London's Jubilee Line extension following a successful campaign from the local councils. I do believe the Parramatta Light Rail will cover some of these areas, but it's not quite the same!
The city station must be at Martin Place to allow for interconnecting
That would make sense, and also has more space than other parts of the CBD. It could also interchange at Pitt Street, but space is at a premium there.
St James is the easiest site can be underground mined from the unoccupied concourse site, no site resumptions.
Site shedding can be placed on a closed St James Rd and part of Hyde Park.
Bore a large single tunnel between Bays, St James under Market St at a depth of 35 metres to go below Sydney Trains lines, Sydney Metro.
It's a direct path to a easy station site at Pyrmont in Union St between Edward and Harris St's.
It's clearly very difficult to weave this line under the number of large buildings at Barangaroo and the Wynyard area,
Hunter St is very narrow and has tall buildings on both sides, a station here is going to be prohibitively expensive requiring demolition of many tall buildings.
Martin Place would have to be built as a terminating Station before reaching Castlereagh St. Both Sydney trains and the Metro have deep stations here
A station at St James would allow a future extension to the Northern Beaches, with a 1.7 Kilometre track fall to the Harbour allowing 135m of depth at the Harbour allowing a hard rock tunnel to be built.
@@kcobley Thanks for sharing the options. It's not going to be an easy one for the planners! Hope the location gets finalised soon. I'm secretly hoping that the line will get extended beyond the CBD. It would be lovely to see the Northern Beaches on the metro map!
@@TransportVlog Will never happen! Northern Beaches residents are notoriously known for not wanting a railway line to their area because they're afraid of all the Westies coming to infiltrate 'their' beaches. It will eventually be extended east to Randwick, although I wouldn't be surprised if they connect it to the Airport line instead and then have it take over the local T8 tracks to Revesby
@@danielmoss895 Yes I've heard that before about Northern Beaches residents!- I think there is a proposal for a possible metro service to Randwick, Maroubra and La Perouse, so this will probably be a more likely option if it is extended.
Bad news about Horwood Pl carpark closing. They just closed the Riverside carpark to build the Powerhouse Museum. Parking in Parramatta especially when the NRL & A-League are on will be horrendous. Bankwest Stadium only has a small carpark. Yes I know, come by public transport but that's not convenient for everybody if you not near a station.
Yes it will make it harder to drive into Parramatta. With Light Rail and Metro, hopefully people that do not have a local station will drive to a nearby station and catch the metro or light rail for the last bit.
@@TransportVlog I knew you were going to say that. Yes it makes sense, when the light rail finally arrives I will make an effort to try it a few times but seriously after a game is over with 20,000 leaving the stadium do you really think it will cope. Time will tell.
it definitely looks heritage listed.
Yes absolutely!
A shame there couldn’t be more tunnel to save those lovely homes in Westmead. We’ve already lost so many lovely houses in the inner west for more roads. Plus other areas have had loss too.
These are always difficult decisions to make. Even if the station was underground, it is likely that the construction required to create the station box would have involved losing these homes. I think the only way to save them would be to have the station somewhere else, and then you would lose the interchange with Westmead Train station.
@@TransportVlog I feel that one day all the houses will be gone & we’ll only have roads, tunnels & trains. Oh no wait, we’ll have lots of those high rise boxes to live in. Sigh
Bruh! Parramatta is for barber salon for the haircut.
Seven Metro Station.
Parramatta is for building construction way more better.
It is past time that they did something to rejuvenate the White Bay power station as it is starting to look rather derelict. So maybe once the station gets underway someone will step up & repurpose the power station with some tender loving care.
Hi Louise, yes the White Bay power station is starting to get rejuvenated now. It's all part of the redevelopment of this area. Not sure if you've seen my later video on The Bays station (the one with the tunnel boring machines). I talk a little about the station and redevelopment in that video. Here is the link - ua-cam.com/video/jCAzufOaOYo/v-deo.html
@@TransportVlog Thank you for this video as now I know what that dug out section is all about. I was watching drone footage over the area last week & wondered what that was all about. I will have to go back & watch that footage again. It was to do with the new road intersection.
Hopefully Roxxy won't come down for the metro
The Roxxy building is safe - Here is some more information in what it might become - www.smh.com.au/culture/theatre/talks-open-on-the-future-of-the-roxy-theatre-20211119-p59ab3.html
I know this is an old video but I am just so unsatisfied of the plannings of the Sydney metro stations. For Example Olympic Park metro Station SHOULD instead be expand from existing train station and provide direct cross platform with the EXISTING T7 lines!!!! is EXTREMELY dumb to just have another station build literally next to it but not parrallel to the existing platform for transfers as what they wanted to envision the area to be a residential and commerical district instead of just hosting events. Take HK MTR as example, they are just so integrated with cross-platform interchange when possible. IS a waste of oppotunity there and im just extremely disappointed, not to mention the weird planning of the new CBD station which are so close to existing lines instead of expanding to for eg DARLINGHURST / SURRY HILLS / USYD/ where theres NO Actual rail systems. Im just so confused on whats NSW gov and syd gov been thinking in their mind. literally dumb and waste of project potentials. Is so saddening to see this happening through my eyes. let me do it and i can propose a way way better solutions for syd transportation future.
I'll talk about interchanges between metro and train at Olympic Park, when I do a video on this station, which will be later this year. Sydney Metro West is being reviewed by the new government, so it might change a little and there will be a tunnel stub at Hunter Street to allow the line to extend east and or south in the future, and that would well include Darlinghurst, Surry Hills etc.
And the poor Roxy Theatre, not even worth a mention
Sorry! - Not being a local Parramatta (or even Aussi) boy, I didn't know about the Roxy Theatre until it came up in the comments. It will definitely get a mention in my next Sydney Metro West update video. I hope to get back there before the car park closes.
@@TransportVlog, that's okay.
I went and researched a bit more as I thought it was under the chop.
It's State Heritage listed but more than likely never to bask in its former glory.