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00:00:01,770 --> 00:00:04,In Australia, Sydney is on a mission.

00:00:04,870 --> 00:00:08,There's still a huge amount of work that
we need to do. To relieve chronic

00:00:08,390 --> 00:00:09,traffic congestion.

00:00:10,230 --> 00:00:14,Sydney's traffic problems are incredibly
difficult to solve. By building a new

00:00:14,310 --> 00:00:18,state -of -the -art metro system right
through the heart of the city.

00:00:20,550 --> 00:00:24,But can it all be built underneath five
million busy people?

00:00:25,230 --> 00:00:26,Huge logistical nightmare.

00:00:27,270 --> 00:00:30,Without bringing them to a standstill. A
lot of things have to go right.

00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,In sequence.

00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:39,So an expert team of men and women from
around the world... Quite scary.

00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,There's a lot that can go wrong.

00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:47,..are stepping up to this challenge with
some pleasure... Oh, wow, this is

00:00:47,460 --> 00:00:49,amazing. ..and pain... Wow.

00:00:50,460 --> 00:00:51,..along the way.

00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:53,That's my station here. That's what we
built.

00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:12,The construction on the groundbreaking
Sydney Metro City line is rapidly

00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:13,approaching its last stop.

00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:20,Seven new 21st century railway stations
have been coming to life, filling the

00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:26,massive voids of the station boxes deep
beneath Australia's busiest city.

00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:33,The biggest underground railway cavern
in Australia, Victoria Cross, has been

00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:35,transformed into a striking...

00:01:35,580 --> 00:01:37,fully functioning automated train
stations.

00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:45,At Crows Nest, more than 126 ,000 custom
-made bricks have been laid by

00:01:45,140 --> 00:01:47,hand, creating its unique design.

00:01:48,740 --> 00:01:54,Right next to the harbour at Barangaroo,
sandstone cladding has topped off the

00:01:54,100 --> 00:02:00,station. At Martin Place, the new
pedestrian tunnel linking the metro to

00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,existing suburban station has been
transformed into a path of light.

00:02:04,890 --> 00:02:06,with immersive sound and lightscape.

00:02:07,270 --> 00:02:13,In the inner city suburb of Waterloo,
finishing touches are underway,

00:02:13,330 --> 00:02:18,massive public art installations and the
display of some artefacts found during

00:02:18,430 --> 00:02:19,the excavation.

00:02:19,730 --> 00:02:25,In the CBD, Pitt Street Station is
nearing completion and has now been

00:02:25,530 --> 00:02:29,Gadigal, recognising the local
indigenous community.

00:02:30,110 --> 00:02:35,And at Central, The longest escalators
in the southern hemisphere have been

00:02:35,230 --> 00:02:41,lowered into place, each 45 meters long
and weighing more than 26 tons.

00:02:53,450 --> 00:02:57,Now that the tracks are down, and the
trains have made their first tentative

00:02:57,850 --> 00:03:03,runs on the city line, Hugh Lawson has
come to witness the finishing touches to

00:03:03,620 --> 00:03:04,the platform screen doors.

00:03:05,460 --> 00:03:09,Platform screen doors are a critical
piece of the infrastructure, really

00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:13,symbolic of Metro. It's one of the key
features customers see and keeps them

00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:14,safe on the platforms.

00:03:14,140 --> 00:03:18,The PSDs, as they're commonly called,
are one of the last pieces of train

00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,infrastructure to be bolted down.

00:03:21,620 --> 00:03:24,But it was a long journey to get them
into the stations.

00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:29,We brought them in actually through the
tunnels on high -rail vehicles.

00:03:29,690 --> 00:03:32,dropped them onto the platforms, and
then from the platforms we had special

00:03:32,770 --> 00:03:33,lifting equipment.

00:03:33,990 --> 00:03:37,If you look at them, those are really
heavy pieces of glass, like reinforced

00:03:37,290 --> 00:03:38,glass, big panes.

00:03:38,870 --> 00:03:41,That's where you get nice views through
them when you're in the train so you

00:03:41,810 --> 00:03:42,know which station you're at.

00:03:43,050 --> 00:03:46,They've g***t to go in absolutely spot on,
millimetre accuracy.

00:03:46,870 --> 00:03:49,These are super precise bits of
mechanical kit.

00:03:50,210 --> 00:03:54,These doors are going to operate
something like 70 ,000 times a year, so

00:03:54,250 --> 00:03:58,imagine any slight misalignment on the
doors is going to be a problem.

00:03:58,670 --> 00:04:02,So the team that come in and install
them, specialist team, went station to

00:04:02,490 --> 00:04:07,station, installing every single panel,
every door, lining them up, testing

00:04:07,150 --> 00:04:10,them, making sure they were working, and
then we move on to the next one and the

00:04:10,290 --> 00:04:14,next one. So, yeah, really specialised
tasks to get these doors in and make

00:04:14,250 --> 00:04:16,they're going to be good for their -year design life.

00:04:16,470 --> 00:04:20,There's one final detail that the
construction teams have left.

00:04:20,630 --> 00:04:25,to peel the remaining section of
protective coating off the last platform

00:04:25,570 --> 00:04:27,doors on the entire metro.

00:04:28,050 --> 00:04:31,So we thought we'd save the last bit for
Hugh to come down. He's obviously been

00:04:31,590 --> 00:04:34,here for the full journey. It'd be nice
to come down and just mark that

00:04:34,430 --> 00:04:35,together.

00:04:38,850 --> 00:04:41,This is the very last bit. This is it.

00:04:42,130 --> 00:04:45,Six years of work and this is the very
last stage of the project now.

00:04:45,630 --> 00:04:48,That's all the way. I'm really glad to
see this last piece of the puzzle coming

00:04:48,750 --> 00:04:50,together. Yeah.

00:04:52,430 --> 00:04:55,It's a pretty special day because we've
been working at Central for probably

00:04:55,890 --> 00:05:01,seven years, from putting in an access
bridge to the archaeological work to the

00:05:01,490 --> 00:05:06,excavation, then building the structure,
finishes the systems, now into the

00:05:06,090 --> 00:05:11,testing. So getting to that last bit of
construction and that handover point,

00:05:11,350 --> 00:05:12,that's massive.

00:05:15,630 --> 00:05:21,And with the plastic now coming off, the
last of the 288 glass doors that keep

00:05:21,450 --> 00:05:26,people safe have been installed along
the edge of all the metro platforms.

00:05:26,750 --> 00:05:29,By the time we open the railway,
something like 50 ,000 people will have

00:05:29,930 --> 00:05:32,directly involved in building this
metro.

00:05:33,580 --> 00:05:38,There's probably tens of thousands more
who've been involved or their family or

00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,their friends have who've been touched
by kind of the work that's been going

00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,So all of those people rightly should be
pretty proud of what we've achieved.

00:05:45,460 --> 00:05:48,And I hope they'll be there on the
opening day or thereabouts to come and

00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:49,what the finished product's like.

00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,The Sydney Metro City Line is just about
ready to go.

00:06:03,020 --> 00:06:07,But one of the last remaining hurdles is
signing off on the automated train. As

00:06:07,980 --> 00:06:11,we come around, the guys are moving
through the process.

00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:17,Delivery Director of Train, Melvin
Bolas, and Testing and Commissioning

00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,Andrew Turner, are on a special mission.

00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:22,Morning, guys. How are we?

00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,So today the train is going through its
final paces as part of the integrated

00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:30,railway approach. So we've shut down the
railway on the north -west.

00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:35,We have actually possession of the whole
northwest and city line to do this

00:06:35,540 --> 00:06:39,testing. What we call UTO, in UTO mode,
unintended train operations.

00:06:40,380 --> 00:06:42,And basically what that means is
driverless.

00:06:44,220 --> 00:06:50,So this train is about to run from
Talawong, the most northwesterly point,

00:06:50,220 --> 00:06:52,Sydenham, the very end of the city line.

00:06:53,860 --> 00:06:55,TC1, this is train set 36.

00:06:55,930 --> 00:07:00,We are ready to switch the train back
into UTR mode and release EV over.

00:07:05,250 --> 00:07:11,In the crucial final stages of dynamic
testing, the train will need to execute

00:07:11,190 --> 00:07:16,every single automated function and
feature on its own. And to perfection.

00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:22,The big test is as soon as we go past
Chatswood and into the city, where

00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,be monitoring closely how this train
performs and driverless, seeing the

00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,open, seeing how it controls into the
station, and it's take -off.

00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,Looks like we're about to get going.
We're about to launch.

00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,There we go.

00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:38,Wow, that's pretty cool.

00:07:41,460 --> 00:07:44,The train makes its way along the
northwest line.

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