Eight years. Four gigantic tunnel boring machines. Five new train stations. Step below the city streets and meet the people building the Metro Tunnel as part of our Underground Melbourne series.
to make way for a walkway between Flinders Street Station and Town Hall Station.
But he says business has since recovered to pre-tunnel levels, and traders in the area are now feeling upbeat about the new station opening on their doorstep.An underground rail line was first proposed in the 1920s, but construction on what was then called the Melbourne Underground Railway Loop didn’t start until 1971.With four separate tunnels each 3.7 kilometres long, it was 10 years before Museum Station opened, and 14 years before the project was completed.
Sydney started building its sewers in 1854 and Adelaide finished theirs in 1885. But in Melbourne people still tipped their excrement into open street channels leading to the Yarra. The CBD sits atop the so-called Dargile Formation, which is made of interbedded marine mudstone and sandstone laid down during the Silurian period , with the western half covered by a thin capping of basalt lava and sandstone around 25 to 5 million years ago.
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