Gadigal railway station
Gadigal | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Station entrance from Bathurst St, August 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Corner Pitt Street & Castlereagh Street Sydney, New South Wales Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°52′22″S 151°12′32″E / 33.8728383°S 151.2087604°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Transport Asset Holding Entity | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Trains Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Metro North West & Bankstown Line | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Depth | 20 metres (66 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Open | ||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 19 August 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Pitt Street (during construction) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Gadigal railway station (known during planning and construction as Pitt Street railway station) is an underground Sydney Metro station in the central business district of Sydney, Australia which opened in August 2024. The station serves the Metro North West & Bankstown Line, with services operating between Sydenham and Tallawong. Services are expected to extend from Sydenham to Bankstown by 2025.
Description
[edit]Gadigal station is located within the Sydney central business district, two blocks east of Town Hall and two blocks west of Hyde Park. The adjacent station to the north is Martin Place station and the adjacent station to the south is Central station. Gadigal station was designed to relieve pressure on Town Hall station, an important interchange on the Sydney Trains network less than 150 metres (490 ft) west of Gadigal station. Unlike Martin Place station, there is no underground walkway between Gadigal and Town Hall stations as planners wanted to avoid creating a megastation and to avoid problems at one station affecting the other.[1]
Gadigal station has two entrances. The north entrance is on the northern side of Park Street between Pitt and Castrereagh streets. The south entrance is on the south-eastern corner of Pitt and Bathurst streets.[2] The northbound platform is located beneath Pitt Street and the southbound platform is located beneath Castlereagh Street.[3] As the tunnel had to be bored above the Cross City Tunnel,[4] the platforms are 17 metres (56 ft) below Park Street and 20 metres (66 ft) below Bathurst Street,[3] making Gadigal station the shallowest station on the City & Southwest project.[1]
Artwork
[edit]At each entrance is an artwork titled The Underneath, by Callum Morton. This consists of two 12.5-metre high (41 ft) tiled murals on the walls opposite the escalators at each entrance.[5]
History
[edit]Excavation
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The contract for the excavation of the six stations and twin 15.5-kilometre (9.6 mi) bored tunnels on the Sydney Metro City and Southwest project was awarded to a joint venture between John Holland, CPB Contractors, and Ghella in June 2017, for A$2.81 billion.[6][7] Demolition of buildings to make way for Pitt Street station began in August 2017.[8] Excavators were craned to the top of buildings to complete the demolition from the top down. By April 2018, all eight buildings at the station's northern entrance had been demolished, the tallest of which was fourteen storeys. The four buildings at the station's southern entrance were demolished soon after as well. After that, concrete retaining walls were built so that the entrance shafts could be excavated. An acoustic shed was built over the sites to limit the impact of construction noise on surrounding areas.[9]
By early 2019, the platform caverns were being excavated by roadheader machines.[10] In August 2019, the first tunnel boring machine (TBM), Nancy, broke through the southern cavern wall to reach Pitt Street station,[11][12] and the following month, the second TBM, Mum Shirl, reached the station. After undergoing maintenance, the TBMs continued tunnelling north towards Martin Place station.[13] In November 2020, concrete lining and waterproofing the station was nearly complete,[14] and by the end of 2020, excavation had been completed.[3]
Station construction
[edit]In September 2019, a consortium of CPB Contractors, Oxford Properties and Grocon were awarded a $463 million contract to construct the station and design and construct two buildings above the station. Under the deal, the consortium also had to pay $369 million for the air rights above the station. CPB was responsible for the station's construction.[15][16][17]
By the end of 2021, Pitt Street station's platforms, which were made out of 681 precast concrete sections, were built, and the concrete slabs for the tracks had been poured.[18] By November 2022, the platform screen doors were in place and the southern entrance building's structure was complete. Five out of the southern entrance's six escalators were also in place, with the final escalator planned to be installed by the end of 2022. Over the following months, the eight escalators at the northern entrance were planned to be installed.[19]
The station opened on 19 August 2024.[20][21]
Name
[edit]Gadigal station was originally known as Pitt Street station. In August 2021, the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council proposed naming the station after the Gadigal people, the local Indigenous Australians. Transport for NSW and the minister for transport, Andrew Constance, supported the idea and sent it to the Geographical Names Board (GNB) for approval. During consultation, the GNB received 120 submissions, most of which were in support of the name Gadigal. However, in February 2022, two months after David Elliott was sworn in as the new transport minister, he intervened to propose the station be named after Indigenous army officer Reginald Saunders.[22][23][24] In October 2023 though, after the election of a Labor government, the name Gadigal was finalised.[25][26][27]
Over-station developments
[edit]There will be an over-station development at the northern and southern entrance, constructed by Oxford Properties and CPB Contractors. The northern entrance will have a 39-storey office building with a retail plaza. The southern entrance will have a 39-storey building with 234 build to rent apartments.[28][29]
Services
[edit]Gadigal station is served by the Metro North West & Bankstown Line.[30] This line is operated under contract by Metro Trains Sydney.[31] The Metro North West Line run from Tallawong station to the north-west to Sydenham station to the south-west. In 2025, an extension to Bankstown station further south-west will open.
The Metro North West Line is planned to operate at a four-minute headway during peak and a ten-minute headway outside of peak.[32]
| Platform | Line | Stopping pattern | Notes |
| 1 | Services to Sydenham | [33] | |
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| 2 | Services to Tallawong | [33] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b O'Sullivan, Matt (18 October 2023). "Giant holes beneath Sydney reshaped into train station with new name". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Foster and Partners & Urbis 2021, p. 12.
- ^ a b c "Gadigal Station". Sydney Metro. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Matt (13 January 2023). "How Sydney's metro rail builders navigated underground obstacles beneath the city". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ "Gadigal Station takes shape as name is announced" (PDF). Sydney Metro. December 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "The big dig: New Harbour Metro crossing underway". Sydney Metro. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Matt (22 June 2017). "Barges to shift thousands of tonnes of rock from Sydney's new rail tunnels". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ "Major work starts for Sydney Metro CBD stations". Sydney Metro. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Demolition complete at Pitt Street north". Sydney Metro. 20 April 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Pitt Street Station taking shape". Sydney Metro. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Historic first breakthrough under Sydney City Centre". Sydney Metro. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Matt (16 August 2019). "Tunnels carved beneath Sydney's busy streets offer glimpse of future". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ "Another CBD breakthrough for Sydney Metro's mega borers". Sydney Metro. 5 September 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Pitt Street Station update". Sydney Metro. 5 November 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Pitt Street metro station to become the city's newest landmark". Sydney Metro. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Cummins, Carolyn (18 September 2019). "Mega-developments add to the crane index". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Builder appointed for Sydney Metro Pitt Street Station". Felix Vendor Marketplace. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Pitt Street Station: update". Sydney Metro. 10 December 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Pitt Street Station taking shape below Sydney CBD". Sydney Metro. 24 November 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Tregenza, Holly (15 August 2024). "Sydney Metro line between Chatswood and Sydenham to open Monday, August 19". ABC News. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Matt (15 August 2024). "All aboard: Sydney's mega-metro rail line cleared for opening on Monday". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ^ McGowan, Michael (2 March 2022). "David Elliott intervened to stop department's proposal to name Sydney Metro station after traditional custodians". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Knowles, Rachael (3 March 2022). "Gadigal name pushed aside by minister in train station debate". NITV News. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Have your say on a place name in City of Sydney LGA" (PDF). Geographical Names Board. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Segaert, Anthony (8 August 2023). "Indigenous name slated for new Sydney metro station". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "New CBD metro station named Gadigal Railway Station". Sydney Metro. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Todoroski, Caitlyn (20 October 2023). "This new Sydney CBD metro station has been named in recognition of the land's traditional custodians". TimeOut. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Integrated station development". Sydney Metro. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Gadigal Station Integrated Station Development, Sydney, NSW". NDY. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Matt (1 May 2024). "New name revealed for Sydney's metro line beneath harbour and CBD". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Metro Trains Sydney (MTS)". MTR Australia. Archived from the original on 25 October 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
- ^ "Sydney Metro City & Southwest Final Business Case Summary" (PDF). Sydney Metro. October 2016. p. 24. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ a b "M1: Metro North West line timetable". Transport for NSW.
Sources
[edit]- Foster and Partners; Urbis (September 2021). "Station Design and Precinct Plan: Pitt Street Metro Station" (PDF). Sydney Metro. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- Rees, C; Sanchez, G; Yurt, K; Krauss, S; Trim, M (10–13 May 2021). "Excavation and primary support of Pitt street station". 17th Australasian Tunnelling Conference – 2020+1: 2020 Vision: Innovating the next 50 years. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. pp. 512–522. ISBN 978-1-925100-96-9.
External links
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Media related to Gadigal railway station, Sydney at Wikimedia Commons