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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.
Sydney Trains is owned and operated by Transport for NSW, a statutory authority of the Government of New South Wales. The Sydney Trains network comprises seven metropolitan lines with services extending as far as Berowra to the north, Richmond to the north-west, Emu Plains to the west, Waterfall to the south (with some peak hour services ...
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.
The station was also the start point for the TBM that bored the two 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) tunnels to Blues Point on the other side of Sydney Harbour. [6] During excavation, several archaeological remains were found, including an old wharf from the 1890s [ 7 ] and the wreck of a wooden boat built in the 1830s, which was the oldest boat of its ...
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 ...
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.
Upon opening, it will provide connections to Sydney Trains services at the existing Wynyard and Martin Place stations, as well as to M1 Metro North West & Bankstown Line services at Martin Place station. [1] [2] Construction commenced in 2023. [3]
The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (reporting mark CBNS) is a short line railway that operates in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.CBNS operates (245 miles or 394 kilometres) of main line and associated spurs between Truro in the central part of the province to Point Tupper on Cape Breton Island.