4 half factual collection Sydney’s Tremendous Tunnel returns to SBS for a second season.
A unprecedented behind-the-scenes collection capturing the development of the subsequent colossal stage of Sydney Metro, one of many world’s greatest railway initiatives. Filmed over 7 years, Sydney’s Tremendous Tunnel was granted unprecedented entry to this world-scale mega undertaking, capturing the human spirit of the huge engineering problem going through greater than 50,000 employees.
Driverless trains are carrying thousands and thousands of passengers a 12 months from town’s outskirts — however their journey to town is barely half full. A brand new community of tunnels will finally stretch greater than 100 kilometres round Sydney, winding their method between the basements of metropolis skyscrapers and deep below Sydney
Harbour. Dozens of recent railway stations, designed to place prospects first, are difficult engineers to give you inventive options. And a fleet of contemporary and distinctive metro trains — run from a futuristic Mission Management — will transfer individuals rapidly round Sydney, remodeling Australia’s greatest metropolis for generations to come back. With a ‘should end’ deadline set, can the group compete this audacious engineering feat in time?
Episode One:On the web site of the long run Waterloo Station, excavation work begins — to be solely stopped quickly after by Sydney’s colonial previous. Historic artefacts are uncovered, telling the story of the world’s working-class roots. In the meantime, the tunnel boring machines are assembled, and their journeys get underway. At Martin Place station, the location is being excavated for the brand new metro railway station, which can sit beneath the present suburban station.
Thursday, 3 April at 8.30pm on SBS.
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