Every Sydney Station
@sydneystations.bsky.social
A personal nerdy project to document the look and feel of every station on Sydney Trains, Intercity, Metro & Ferries. A look at urban environments in and around Sydney. Also other transit & urban things. Just some nerd.
I have not. However, while checking this I saw that there is about to be consultation on a proposal to name the Airport Terminal station on the Western Sydney Airport Line "WSI Airport". www.nsw.gov.au/have-your-sa...
Proposed name in Liverpool LGA
The Geographical Names Board is seeking feedback on a proposal to name a railway station in Badgerys Creek in the Liverpool Local Government Area (LGA).
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Good to see that the public realm at Victoria Cross is finished and some of the tenants opening up. But I'm shocked there isn't a pedestrian crossing at the station entrance. That's unusual at any station across Sydney, let alone one this busy.
Has anyone heard of plans to rename the Airport line and stations once WSA opens? I suspect the answer is no, but I was hoping they would. Just needs to be something as simple like SYD Domestic, SYD International.
There's an interesting tension here. Offices are very sensitive to location, and are often demolished after a few decades. Residential is not as sensitive, and tends to stick around way longer. I can see why Council want to preserve space for offices, but at what cost?
The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial)@smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 3d ago📢 Parramatta’s mayor wants the city to be reserved for jobs. Others want to maximise housing. Who wins?
📢 It’s agile, progressive, on the cultural frontline and changing before our eyes: what’s more, you can feel the pride of the people who call Parramatta home.
My suburb is a city, an overnight success story that’s taken 30 years to thrive
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Less exciting than the Western Metro big engineering projects but still could be interesting. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/community-...
Community Open Day at Dulwich Hill
Join us for a community first look at the transformed Dulwich Hill Station – delivered as part of the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project.
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This is one of the Shararh's best videos. Some real interesting points made.
Jedwin Mok@jedwinmok.com · 2w agoHonored to be featured in Building Beautifully’s latest video about transit construction costs! Sharath puts it best: “We keep treating cost blowouts as inevitabilities instead of looking to the rest of the world out of misguided notions of exceptionalism.” Watch now! youtu.be/iIET6M3phqA?...
📢 The first driverless train for the $12 billion line to Western Sydney Airport is housed in new maintenance facility near Penrith ahead of testing next month.
First look inside Sydney’s new airport metro trains shows what sets them apart
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New floating art thing in Barangaroo. Allegedly this is winter.
Love to see it. The least-used rail-corridor leading into the city. A perfect place to live car-free or car-lite.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w agoWaverley Council forges ahead with master plan for Bondi Junction
It's actually crazy how many developers are spruiking an easy drive to the metro for new houses that are 10km away. The car parks stand no chance!
Just one more commuter car park bro. I promise this time it'll fix it
Every Sydney Station@sydneystations.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat a stupid waste of money. $160m to provide one train's worth of capacity. There'll still be no spaces past 7am. I was hoping NSW had moved past this, but so many people are being sold on living in sprawl and driving to metro. And the govt pretends it'll work. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
What a stupid waste of money. $160m to provide one train's worth of capacity. There'll still be no spaces past 7am. I was hoping NSW had moved past this, but so many people are being sold on living in sprawl and driving to metro. And the govt pretends it'll work. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
New 1100-vehicle car park to be built at busy north-west Sydney Metro station
Tallawong station has languished with an overflowing, single-storey car park since opening in 2019.
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OTFORD, 53km from Central, is a quiet, leafy station serving a small collection of houses surrounded by forest. It has two curved platforms accessed by a simple uncovered footbridge, and no lifts. The Sydney-bound platform has a small weatherboard building with a waiting area. (1/2)
Some recent news on some tall ones across Sydney - the 82 storey "Castlereagh Place" twin tower development was approved. A mixed hotel and apartment building, it'll feature a 'public' square in the middle of the site and multiple through-site lane-ways lined with retail, dining and event spaces.
HELENSBURGH, 46km from Central, is a quiet old station on the South Coast Line, serving low-density suburbia and surrounded by native forests. It has two platforms in a cutting, accessed from a newer pedestrian bridge, with glass lifts contrasting with the heritage brick station building. (1/3)
Why was the Perth Airport line so much cheaper to build, per kilometre, than anything on the east coast?
A new piece of info from this week's tour is Westmead probably won't get the promised underground interchange. It might not get any interchange at all. The below story from last year wasn't just about art, it seems to be about significant downgrades www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
'Don't cheapen Western Sydney': Advocacy groups slam Metro stations budget
Western Sydney advocates express concern over budgeting for Metro West after the government signalled it would like to spend $300 million less per station than in the CBD.
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Every morning, thousands of people transfer off the train lines and onto the new Metro at Sydenham.
WESTMEAD Metro site tour! The station box is HUGE, photos don't do it justice. There's tunnel stubs on the west side, about 100m of spare tunnel that won't get used. If they ever extend the line west, they can break into them without closing the line. (1/3)
A 70 zone outside a school on a road lined with houses and driveways. But no school zone because it's a "highway"?
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2mo agoHeartbroken parents of two children killed in Sydney's Cabramatta speak
Weird how they never set up tidal flow on the escalators at Gadigal
Melbourne's west needs better public transport! Join the rally tomorrow, midday at State Parliament calling for more action on upgrades for buses. Details here:
Transport Justice for the West - Rally at Parliament!
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Hard to tell how much of a boost this is to the past, but a splash of cash is always appreciated. www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
Record investment in Sydney Trains to boost maintenance, improve reliability and incident response
A record investment of $2.1 billion in maintenance will go into improving reliability and incident response on the Sydney Trains network.
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I've not seen this happen before, it half opened then gave up!
I'm watching this excellent video and thinking "Wow Sydney Trains would never allow such a bad pedestrian experience!" then I remember the stations like Ashfield that have you walking in circles to pass the gates. youtu.be/DftllbM61Cw
A video where I talk about the Lilydale line for 102 minutes!
YouTube video by Taitset
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