Two months after TBM Betty[https://www.tunnelsandtunnelling.com/news/boring-completed-on-sydney-metro-west-tunnel/] crossed the finish line into Westmead, TBM Dorothy has completed the job after a two-year journey through almost 800,000 tonnes of earth.
At the other end of the line, TBMs Jessie and Ruby are driving underneath Darling Harbour[https://www.tunnelsandtunnelling.com/news/sydney-metro-west-tbms-reach-deepest-point-below-harbour/] to finish at Hunter Street in coming months.
Westmead Public School students have lent their hands to mark the end of the line, providing a splash of colour for posterity to the final concrete segment on the western end of the 24km line.
Thirty Year 5 and Year 6 students visited Sydney Metro’s Rosehill site to paint the final tunnel segment before it was put in place by Dorothy.
More than 150,000 concrete segments will be installed on the Metro West line by full completion.
Minister for transport John Graham saidit was a big moment to see the light at the end of both tunnels on the western end of the project.
“The Westmead hospital and health precinct will become super-connected to the rest of Sydney through turn up and go metro services.
“I want to thank the students at Westmead Public School who lent us a hand to make the very last concrete segment that much more special. Metro is known for its public art, but this work is unique and will serve as a time capsule in the tunnel long after the line opens,” he said.
Member for Parramatta Donna Davis said thecommunity would welcome “this huge milestone of an end to all tunnelling into the future Westmead Station”.
“This project has so much local involvement from Western Sydney-manufactured concrete segments to a workforce that is majority locally-based,” she said.
Westmead will be linked to Parramatta in a two-minute trip and the Sydney CBD in 22 minutes when Metro West opens in 2032.
