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title: Sydney Metro – Australia
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date_modified: 2024-06-03
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# Sydney Metro – Australia

![Sydney Metro – Australia](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/page-51-sydney-002-scaled.jpg)

**SYSTRA is one of the key players in one of Australia’s biggest transport projects, the construction of the first two automated metro lines in Sydney, of which the first was commissioned on 26th May 2019.**

The Group’s teams in Australia have been working on the two lines on behalf of
Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW): Sydney Metro Northwest and Sydney Metro
City & Southwest. These lines are set to transform the experience of moving
around in Australia’s biggest city, reducing journey times and road congestion
while ensuring an effective service and a network covering developing
neighbourhoods.

Sydney Metro Northwest which SYSTRA, in a consortium with Australian engineering
firm GHD, delivered a key role as the Independent Certifier for the Operations,
Trains and Systems (OTS) contract for five years, from 2014 to the inauguration
in May 2019. SYSTRA was involved from preliminary design phase through
manufacturing of systems, implementation, testing and commissioning, ready for
first passenger service, and final completion in order to ensure TfNSW received
the fit for purpose new driverless metro system they intended in the original
specification.

More than 1,000 technical packages through the Design, Manufacturing,
Construction, Testing & Commissioning and Final Completion phases before opening
to the public were certified. The teams made use of all the experience gained
over three decades by SYSTRA in the field of
[metro automated systems](https://www.systra.com/en/markets/metro/) and
certification methodology.

The City & Southwest Line is the second phase in the deployment of Sydney’s
metro network. Since the end of 2018, SYSTRA has been working in a consortium
with AECOM, responsible for the Independent Certification of 3 Brownfield 
Packages, covering the requalification then the modernisation of lines and
existing infrastructures to accomodate the new automated metro, scheduled for
commissioning by 2024.

TfNSW is in the process of releasing two more Metro’s to the market : one will
connect Parramatta in the West to the CBD (Sydney Metro West) by 2030, and a
second will connect Sydney’s second international airport (currently under
construction) to the existing passenger train network at St Marys – both to be
commissioned by 2026. SYSTRA will be looking to leverage their international and
local expertise into supporting TfNSW for the delivery of these stage 3 and 4
Metros.

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