For the first time in Sydney’s history, trains have burrowed deep under the harbour, as they streak toward delivering a city-wide metro service.
The new metro trains travelled across the 15.5 kilometre twin metro railway tunnels up to 40 metres below the surface as the Sydney Metro City and Southwest Line project enters its next stage.
Transport officials and engineers oversaw the trial run in the early hours of Friday morning with testing wrapping up about 7am.
The $20.5 billion (US$14.4 billion) project extends the Metro North West Line from Chatswood Station to Sydenham Station and is the largest rail line to be constructed under central Sydney since the City Circle underground railway was completed in the 1950s….