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The design of Martin Place Railway Station played an important role in promoting the extension of Martin Place to Macquarie Street and in determining the design of the easternmost end of the plaza. [5] In 1967, the State Government awarded the contract for the civil and structural design of the line to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority.
Martin Place was closed between Macquarie and Phillip Streets from January 1972 to facilitate the station's construction. [6] The station opened in 1979. [ 3 ] Leo Port , the Lord Mayor of Sydney was an advocate of civic design, and was partly responsible for the pedestrianisation of Martin Place and Sydney Square.
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 ...
Sydney Trains at Parramatta railway station Light Rail [52] Punchbowl§ City & Southwest: Punchbowl: 2025 [h] [8] [9] Pyrmont: West: Pyrmont: 2032 [14] St Marys [12] Western Sydney Airport [12] St Marys: 2026 [k] [13] Sydney Trains [54] Sydney Olympic Park: West: Sydney Olympic Park: 2032 [14] Sydney Trains at Olympic Park railway station [55 ...
1 Elizabeth, also known as Martin Place Metro North Tower, is a 174 m (571 feet) 40–story skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. Designed by Johnson Pilton Walker (JPW), the building has been integrated with the adjoining 50 Martin Place building, as well as the Martin Place Metro Station that sits under 1 Elizabeth.
An exception is the main entrance on Martin Place where the Italian sculptor Giovanni Fontana in Sicilian, working from his studio in Chelsea, was commissioned to complete the figure of Queen Victoria, robed as Queen and Empress with her crown and sceptre, at her feet, two symbolic figures of Britannia and New South Wales in Sicilian marble.
Construction of Museum station in 1925, ... Martin Place. St James: Town Hall: Museum: ... Transport for NSW trains; NSW rail City Circle
In October 2008, the newly appointed NSW Premier Nathan Rees cast doubts upon the likelihood of constructing the North West Metro, and instead proposed a short metro line between Central station and Rozelle via Town Hall and East Darling Harbour , with the potential for further westwards extension to Macquarie Park and Epping. [33]