180-metre-long platform screen doors complete on the first Southwest metro station

Platform screen doors are a key safety feature of Sydney Metro stations, as they play a crucial role in keeping passengers safely away from the tracks.  

A total of 160 out of 360 platform screen doors have been fitted into place across the 10 southwest stations being upgraded between Marrickville and Bankstown.  

Each state-of-the-art glass door take approximately six hours to prepare and install, after which it is fixed into place, connected with electrical cables, powered on and prepared for testing and commissioning. The remaining doors are due to be installed by the end of November, ready for testing.

Since full-scale construction commenced following the closure of the 130-year-old T3 Bankstown line on 30 September, between 400 and 800 people have been working on the city-shaping Southwest Metro conversion every day to transform the line to modern metro standards.  

Work completed to date as part of the Southwest conversion includes:

Excavation of the existing platform at Bankstown and realigning tracks to create the space that will become the central plaza between Sydney Metro and Sydney Trains stations

Track adjustments, overhead wiring and signalling work at Sydenham to disconnect the future Sydney Metro tracks from the adjacent Sydney Trains and ARTC networks

Commissioning of the new T6 line to provide a four-car shuttle service from Bankstown to Lidcombe

20.21-kilometres of 21.34 kilometres of security and rail segregation fencing installed  

160 of 360 platform screen doors installed at Bankstown, Canterbury, Campsie, Marrickville and Dulwich Hill stations

105 of 170 mechanical gap fillers installed at Marrickville, Canterbury, Hurlstone Park, Campsie, Dulwich Hill Stations, with preparatory works underway at Punchbowl and Lakemba  

Over the coming months, the focus will be on completing the fencing and platform screen door installation works to separate the corridor and enable energisation of the overhead wiring and readiness to commence dynamic train testing.

Once the final section of the M1 Metro Northwest & Bankstown Line is open, Sydney will have a 30-kilometre fast and reliable metro network from Sydney’s north west, under the harbour and below the Sydney CBD and out to Bankstown in the city’s south west.