Sydney Trains Vlog 1494: Sydney Metro - Tunnel Boring Machine Nancy Launch
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Vlog 1494 Sydney Metro Tunnel Boring Machine Nancy Launch Tunnelling started on 17/10/2018 to deliver twin new metro railway tunnels below the centre of Sydney and deep under Sydney Harbour as part of Australia’s biggest public transport project, Sydney Metro. Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance officially launched tunnel boring machine (TBM) Nancy – one of the five mega borers which will build 31 kilometres of tunnels between Marrickville and Chatswood The TBM has been named Nancy in honour of transport pioneer Nancy Bird Walton OBE. Nancy and another TBM will tunnel 8.1 kilometres from Marrickville to the new Sydney Metro station sites at Waterloo, Central, Pitt Street, Martin Place and on to Barangaroo, where they will be removed from deep underground. The five TBMs will excavate 5.9 million tonnes of rock – enough to fill about 940 Olympic swimming pools. This is the first time in Australian history that five TBMs have worked on a transport infrastructure project.
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