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The Wynyard Walk is a 180-metre-long (590 ft) pedestrian link and tunnel between Wynyard station and Barangaroo that opened in September 2016, [12] with a Clarence Street entrance that opened in December 2016.
Museum railway station is a heritage-listed [1] underground commuter rail station that is located on the City Circle route at the southern end of Hyde Park in the Sydney central business district of New South Wales, Australia.
Wynyard Walk provides a quick and safe route and has increased the entry and exit capacity of Wynyard station to meet demand as Barangaroo is redeveloped. An estimated 20,000 pedestrians per hour can walk through the tunnel. [2] In 2009, prior to construction of Barangaroo, the pedestrian tunnel was estimated to cost $100 million. [3]
Built in stages, the first City Circle stations to open were the heritage-listed [4] Museum and St James, which both opened in 1926 as part of the initial electrification of Sydney railways. Next was the "western limb" through Town Hall and Wynyard, which opened in 1932 in conjunction with the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This section ...
The line to St James station and Museum was opened in 1926, while the "western branch" of the City Circle through Town Hall and Wynyard opened in 1932, in conjunction with the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Circular Quay remained a "missing link" until 1956, when it connected the ends of the two underground branches via an elevated track.
Wynyard (/ ˈ w ɪ n j ər d /) is an urban locality adjacent to Wynyard railway station in the Sydney central business district of New South Wales, Australia. Wynyard is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. The postcode is 2000. Wynyard Park is a prominent landmark in this area.
The final contract for the line involved approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of single track tunnel structures and crossovers, four underground stations (Martin Place, Kings Cross, Edgecliff and Bondi Junction; Town Hall already existed and Central was partially complete) and one surface station (Woollahra, in a cutting), two 772-metre (2,533 ...
The North Shore Line [1] [2] is a railway line serving the North Shore in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.The North Shore Line extends from Sydney Central station through the western limb of the City Circle, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and through the North Shore area to Hornsby where it joins the Main North Line.