Metro Below: Sydney Walking Tour
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The lowdown
🚇 Metro Below: Discover What’s Beneath
🔎 What You’ll Experience
• 🏛️ Visit six of Sydney’s newest Metro stations, travelling from Waterloo to Victoria Cross while exploring their architecture, engineering and design.
• 🧸 Discover what archaeologists found beneath Waterloo—including children’s toys, marbles, a telegraph transmitter and an unusual surface paved with old beer bottles.
• 🏗️ Hear how Central’s Metro platforms were constructed beneath a working railway station, including a temporary platform built in just 23 days.
• ⚙️ Learn how enormous roadheaders carved Gadigal’s station caverns from sandstone, creating spaces that ordinary tunnel-boring machines could not.
• 🏦 Discover the engineering used to protect the heritage-listed 50 Martin Place while the new station was excavated beneath it.
• 🚇 Hear the story of Kathleen, the 975-tonne machine that tunnelled beneath Sydney Harbour—and the remarkable woman behind its name.
• 🕰️ See Sundial at Victoria Cross, a 12-metre digital artwork that uses images of bushland and changing light to reflect the hours and seasons.
• 🤖 Learn about the technology operating across the network, including driverless trains, platform screen doors and modern safety systems.
• 🎨 See how public art, architecture and carefully selected materials connect each station with its surrounding neighbourhood, history and identity.
• 📖 Hear the challenges, decisions and human stories behind the development of one of Sydney’s largest transport projects.
⏱️ Duration
Approximately 2 hours
📍 Meeting Point
Entrance to Waterloo Metro Station
(Your guide will be wearing a yellow hi-vis vest)
🏁 Finish Point
Victoria Cross Metro Station, North Sydney
☔ Weather
The tour operates almost entirely undercover or underground, making it suitable in most weather conditions.
🎒 What You Need
• 💳 A valid Opal card, debit card or credit card for travel on the Metro
• 👟 Comfortable shoes for walking and standing
• 💧 A bottle of water
📸 Photos & Videos
Photos of publicly accessible areas, station architecture and public artworks are welcome.
Please do not film the guide during the tour.
🎟️ Limited Spots Available
Group numbers are limited to provide a better experience.
Book early to guarantee your place.
🏢 Private Bookings Available
Private tours are available for corporate groups, Probus clubs, community organisations, architecture and engineering groups, and special events.
Contact us to arrange a private tour.
👥 Group Size
Maximum 40 participants to ensure everyone can hear the guide and enjoy the experience.
⚠️ Important Note
This is an independent guided tour conducted entirely within publicly accessible station areas. The tour does not include behind-the-scenes access or entry into restricted, operational or construction areas.
Participants are responsible for their own safety and belongings throughout the tour.
Metro Below is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sydney Metro or Transport for NSW.
🚇 Book now and take a closer look at Sydney’s Metro.
Where to rock up
Waterloo station, 110 Raglan st, Waterloo, NSW 2017, Sydney
Getting there
• 🏗️ Hear how Central’s Metro platforms were constructed beneath a working railway station, including a temporary platform built in just 23 days.
Accessibility
🎒 What You Need • 💳 A valid Opal card, debit card or credit card for travel on the Metro • 👟 Comfortable shoes for walking and standing • 💧 A bottle of water 📸 Photos & Videos Photos of publicly accessible areas, station architecture and public artworks are welcome.
