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Animation of a proposed high-speed rail station on the East Coast.

What stands in the way of high-speed rail between Sydney and Newcastle

Aside from the colossal cost, ambitious plans for the first stage of Australia’s high-speed rail line face a long list of obstacles.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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Animation of a high-speed train on Australia’s East Coast.

Revealed: Colossal cost of high-speed rail line from Sydney to Central Coast

Confidential modelling underscores the challenges facing the Albanese government if it presses ahead with building a high-speed line all the way to Newcastle.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Hunter Street metro station.

Beneath Sydney’s busiest streets, a cathedral is chiselled out for a flagship metro station

The obstacles in building Metro West’s main city station include being sandwiched between the City Circle train line and a tunnel full of high-voltage cables which power the northern end of the CBD.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Sydney Trains chief executive Matt Longland speaks to reporters on Saturday.

Rail cancellations linger as Sydney prepares for New Year’s Eve

The temporary withdrawal of major work bans by rail unions has not completely removed one of train commuters’ biggest gripes.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Transport for NSW coordinator-general Howard Collins in the joint operations centre at Eveleigh.

Sydney’s new metro line faces first major test with New Year’s Eve crowds

New Year’s Eve fireworks will put immense strain on the city’s transport system. The big question is how much a new metro line will help to ease crowds.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Passengers will check in on the terminal’s ground floor..

Two years to take-off: Inside Sydney’s new international airport terminal

Passengers are expected to be walking through the major new terminal by the 2026 Christmas holidays, offering an alternative to the city’s incumbent airport.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
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Everyone’s allowed one boring obsession … mine is Sydney’s new Metro

For a longtime critic of the city’s public transport, finally: a little light at the end of the tunnel.

  • Benjamin Law
The government is facing renewed pressure to extend the metro line.

Why Sydney needs these two ‘missing pieces’ of the metro rail network

The state government is under renewed pressure to extend its metro rail line to fast-growing western suburbs.

  • Megan Gorrey
Road-headers have carved a tunnel overlapping the metro rail line near Victoria Cross station.

The two giant overlapping tunnels that pass metres apart below Sydney

Six giant road headers are working around the clock to dig the first new road crossing of Sydney Harbour in 30 years.

  • Megan Gorrey
WestConnex staff during tunnel construction in 2021.

Revealed: The Sydney tunnel projects where deadly dust levels hit 208 times legal limit

“All you see is clouds of dust”: Thousands of tunnel workers are being exposed to potentially deadly levels of silica.

  • Max Maddison

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