In this video, myself and Sharath‪@BuildingBeautifully‬ get behind the hoardings at the construction site for the new Aerotropolis Sydney Metro Station.

This station will be the terminus for the Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport Line. It will also be in the heart of the new Bradfield City, the first major city to be built in over 100 years!

We will reveal the 320 metre station box for Aerotropolis Station, and Paul will explain why it had to be this big! We also uncover the location of the secret stub tunnels that could allow the Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport Line to continue to Leppington and/or Macarthur in the future!

After talking about TBM Eileen which started at Airport Business Park and has already broken through the Western Sydney Airport Station, Sharath heads up to Orchard Hills to meet two special ladies!

One is Marlene and she is about to embark on the slowest ever journey from Orchard Hills to St Mary's! Only 120 metres a week, but to give her credit, she will be boring these important Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport Line tunnels and won't see the light of day for a good few months.

The other is the NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen, and not only did Sharath meet her, he got to interview her live on camera! So we think ‪@BuildingBeautifully‬ is the first YouTube channel to ever interview a NSW Transport Minister!

After all that excitement, Paul returns to talk about how the completed Aerotropolis Sydney Metro Station will look, and then we finish off with some drone action, as Sharath takes us on an aerial tour of the future Bradfield city area, and talks passionately about this new exciting city.

Thanks to Sharath ‪@BuildingBeautifully‬ for being such a fun companion, and for providing additional footage, voiceovers, energy and enthusiasm!

Check out Sharath's Building Beautifully channel right here -    / buildingbeautifully  

Chapters

0:00 Introduction
1:17 Aerotropolis Station Box side views
4:30 Aerotropolis Station Box - north end views (part 1)
5:03 Orchard Hills (including Sharath's interview with Jo Haylen)
7:10 Aerotropolis Station Box - north end views (part 2)
8:00 Design of Aerotropolis Station.
9:12 Sharath gets his Drone out!
11:25 Closing clips

Attribution - Photos, Video and Diagrams
All uncredited footage in this video with taken by either Paul or Sharath. All credited footage, diagrams, artist impression images, and maps are from Sydney Metro, NSW Department of Planning or NSW Transport Ministers Office.

Sydney Metro - https://www.sydneymetro.info
NSW Department of Planning - https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au
NSW Transport Ministers Office - https://www.nsw.gov.au/nsw-government...

Diagrams of the completed Aerotropolis Station came from the Section 7.4.6 of Chapter 7 of the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport EIS.

Here is a link to this document. - https://majorprojects.planningportal....

Attribution - Music

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen - Live version at Shaftesbury Theatre in 1982 -    • Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eile...  

The awesome Drone Footage Music! - Golden Cage by Jimena Contreras -    • Jimena Contreras - Golden Cage [No Co...  

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