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For the first time in New South Wales, Australia, transport history, trains were running deep below Sydney Harbor as the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project entered its next stage in April 2023.
The new metro trains (shown below) are now traveling in the 15.5-km twin metro railway tunnels, which extend the Metro North West Line from Chastwood Station to Sydenham Station, as part of a rigorous testing and commissioning program.
This is the first railway crossing below Sydney Harbor, and once metro trains are operational next year, they will move more people across the harbor during peak hours than the Sydney Harbor Bridge and Sydney Harbor Tunnel combined.
The first stage of testing is completed at low speed, with trains manually driven at a maximum speed of 25 km/h. The trains then gradually move into high-speed testing, where the trains reach a maximum speed of 110 km/h.
Full Article: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Volume 18, Number 3, September 2023 | 
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