Sydney's Super Tunnel
Sydney's Super Tunnel is a TV show on SBS ONE. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 6 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2025.
Last episode
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51:36Sydney's Super Tunnel
With the construction of Australia’s biggest public transport project in full swing, we head back under Sydney Harbour and witness the historic completion of the twin metro rail tunnels deep below the surface.
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51:35An extension is now underway to get people the rest of the way into the centre of Australia’s biggest city, including a new tunnel crossing deep under Sydney Harbour. 'From a construction point of view it’s a nextlevel challenge - even bigger and more complex,” says Sydney Metro chief executive Peter Regan.
Season 1
50:16
50:16We follow architect Ross de la Motte, seeing that his vision for the stations has finally come to light. He has gone to great lengths to design stations that benefit from natural light and airflow, minimising the need for additional power. Has he been successful?
50:25Another super challenge looms, perhaps the greatest of the entire project - digging two tunnels beneath Sydney Harbour. In the early planning stages, the team actually considered dropping pre-fabricated tunnel sections down onto the floor of the harbour one by one, lowering them from barges, which was the way the road tunn...
51:19We check in on our engineers encountering all manner of issues tunnelling through a minefield of existing infrastructure - skyscraper footings and basements, sewers, a graveyard, and existing rail tunnels.
51:07The show kicks off with a dynamic taster of what the series has in store - namely the inside story of a crack team building a trailblazing, fully-automated metro system costing $50 billion, by far the biggest and most advanced new railway opening anywhere on the planet in 2019. A dramatic scene with our main characters dea...