Sydney’s Central Station—a critical interchange that connects with suburban, intercity, and regional rail services, buses, coaches, and light rail—has installed the longest escalators in the Southern Hemisphere as part of a milestone transformation to Australia’s busiest train station. The nine escalators are 45 metres long and weigh more than 26 tonnes each. At a price tag of $955 million ($US682 million), New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said the work at the iconic station would transform public transport services. “The upgrade to Central Station will create more than 5,500 jobs over the four years of construction and represents the biggest improvement to the station in decades,” Perrottet said in a release on Feb. 8. “This city-shaping work is an extraordinary engineering and construction accomplishment. We’re delivering this Metro rail station below the surface at Central while existing train services continue above.” As an underground link for customers, construction has excavated …