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Giant boring machines have been used to excavate twin tunnels for the metro rail line to Western Sydney Airport.

Dispute threatens $2.2 billion cost blowout, major delay to Sydney’s new metro line

Passengers hoping to take the train to the new airport may have to wait an extra year – even if the dispute is resolved on contractors’ terms.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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Marc Cote at Central Station, where his walking tour Secrets of the City Circle starts and finishes.

The surprising stories and secrets of Sydney’s City Circle line

Hopping on and off trains, Marc Cote tells a fascinating two-and-a-half hours of subterranean stories.

  • Garry Maddox
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A lobster tale or two

Send for the coppers.

Tammie Zarro and Graham Scott, of the Friends of Gardiners Creek Reserve Burwood, share the concerns of Whitehorse and Monash councils.

Gardiners Creek is a rare slice of urban bush. The government wants to build 20-storey towers on its bank

Locals and councils have raised concerns that plans for the Suburban Rail Loop will cause a loss of sunlight and impact wildlife in the suburban sanctuary.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Central Station.

Critical rezoning plans for Sydney’s Central Station on chopping block

The major changes to rezoning plans will be a setback to future development of one of the central city’s most significant sites, critics argue.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Commuters pack a city-bound metro train during the morning peak.

Trains are packed on these Sydney metro stops in the morning peak

An extra 14 trains would need to be ordered by the government to increase frequency to one every three minutes and ease crowding.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
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The XPT trains have been running since the early 1980s.

They should have been retired by now. Here’s why we’re stuck with XPTs

People who rely on trains to travel long distances in NSW and interstate are paying the price for troubled fleet replacement projects.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
A metro train runs through the new section of track between Campsie and Sydenham for the first time.

First metro train rolls along the final stage of Sydney’s $21.6b line

The first metro journey marks the start of more than 6500 hours of testing which will determine when the line opens to passengers next year. 

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Door flies open on a Sydney Metro train during peak hour on Wednesday.

Metro passengers left hanging on as door stays open on driverless train

The dramatic incident occurred on a packed city-bound train during peak hour on Wednesday morning.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
SRL Minister Harriet Shing, Premier Jacinta Allan, and Transport Infrastructure Minister Gabrielle Williams on Tuesday.

Cutting Sunshine hub would kill Airport Rail, says Allan

The Victorian premier responded to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s announcement that he would pull federal funding from the SRL East and Sunshine rail hub if elected.

  • Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Chip Le Grand

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