Airdate: Sydney’s Super Tunnel
Filmed over 5 years, this doco follows the execution of the longest railway tunnels ever built in Australia.
- Published by David Knox
- on August 12, 2020
- Filed under Programming, Video
Tonight SBS screens Sydney’s Super Tunnel, this is a 4 part engineering series made by Rogue Creative.
This series traces the enormous engineering challenges faced by the greatest public transport infrastructure project in Australia’s history. Traffic gridlock is now a constant problem in Sydney, with the population growing by 100,000 people a year. Filmed over five years, Sydney’s Super Tunnel follows the planning and execution of the longest railway tunnels ever built in Australia, including beneath the busy Central Station and iconic Sydney Harbour, as well as an elevated sky train that stretches into the north- western suburbs.
The super tunnel team will deliver 31 metro railway stations and 66 kilometres of track. The challenge is to create the nation’s first fully automated metro system; one that will require no drivers and no timetables, along with a futuristic Mission Control that will house the brains of the new metro. To ensure its success requires expertise from around the world to open on time. Sydney’s Super Tunnel follows every stage in the construction of this world-class transport system, and we meet many of the 40,000 men and women whose job it is to make this vision a reality.
Episode One: Action Stations
The 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 dealing with a crisis gets the ball rolling.
8:30pm Wednesday on SBS.
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6 Responses
Please tell me Adolf Hitler was somehow involved in the tunnel project, only then will this programme properly fulfil the SBS Charter.
I would rather know if this was a corporate doco produced with Sydney Metro.
… are you suggesting shades of ABC’s “commercial interests dictating the content of certain programs” in 1995 that led to David Hill and Paddy Conroy being shown the exit?
No. Not every story goes back to ABC past.
… true, but pretty much everything at the ABC and SBS gets mired in politics one way or another in the end … pollies can’t keep their sticky fingers away!!!
Interesting,I am going to PVR this.