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Final tracks laid through the Metro Tunnel
Test trains will soon be running through the Metro Tunnel after the final tracks were laid through the new tunnels for this city-shaping project.
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Metro Tunnel reaches 40 million hours as testing looms
Metro Tunnel workers have just clocked 40 million hours of work on the city-shaping project as they prepare to start testing trains in the tunnels in the second half of the year.
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Peter Doherty given behind-the-scenes look of Parkville Station
Award-winning immunologist Peter Doherty has been given a unique tour of the Metro Tunnel Project, just a few months out from the first test trains being launched.
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Rail installation to start soon at Parkville Station
The Metro Tunnel Project is about to take another step towards completion, as crews prepare to start laying the first rail in the tunnels in the coming weeks.
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Renowned artist to transform Parkville Station
Metro Tunnel’s Parkville Station is set to feature artwork by internationally acclaimed Melbourne artist Patricia Piccinini, underlining Melbourne’s reputation as the nation’s cultural capital.
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Metro Tunnel digs prove Melbourne’s historical love of coffee
An Australia-first discovery as part of Metro Tunnel Project works has revealed the city’s famed coffee culture is decades older than first thought – as far back as the Victorian gold rush.
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Parkville walkway marks end of Metro tunnelling
A vital Metro Tunnel connection linking the future Parkville Station to Victoria’s world leading education and health precinct beneath one of Melbourne’s busiest arterials is now complete.
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Metro Tunnel bringing art that makes a sustainable statement
Everything old is new again in the latest artwork to adorn the Metro Tunnel Project’s Town Hall Station work site at City Square, courtesy of the project’s Creative Program.
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Star apprentice builds career at Parkville Station
When it comes to inspiring other women to work in construction, Chhunly Taing has started close to home, with her younger sister.
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Budding young engineers invited to “build your own city”
A popular Melbourne export that combines kids, creativity and cardboard boxes is returning home, setting up shop not far from where the phenomenon began 20 years ago.
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Digging done for Metro Tunnel mega machines
Four huge tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have finished 20 months of digging under Melbourne to create two nine-kilometre-long rail tunnels for the Metro Tunnel Project.
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Metro Tunnel mega-machines on the home stretch
The Metro Tunnel Project has almost reached the three-quarter mark of building the nine-kilometre-long twin tunnels that will create a new train line running under Melbourne.
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