Sydney Metro Train Stage 2 - every new station explored. 🗣️

[@edwardjones7065]

Love your passion for your city. Looking forward a trip or two on this magnificent rail system when visiting from the UK at the end of Nov.

[@hwtours]

@@edwardjones7065 Thanks for watching. Yes you’ll enjoy the ride. You can easily tap on and off with your credit card or buy an opal card if you’re here for a while.

[@smantle11]

Thanks HW. I've done Chatswood to Tallawong. It's all very impressive. Will have to bring the oldies down from Port and have a looksee at the new section. With some of those stations it looked like they burrowed down to the earth's core! Cheers - Steve, Carole and Brian.

[@hwtours]

@@smantle11 Haha correct. It was like journey to the centre of the earth 100%. But the elevators and escalators make it a breeze.

[@sevenpointfive5450]

Great video, lots of effort there, much appreciated 👍

[@hwtours]

@@sevenpointfive5450 Cheers. I enjoyed it.

[@garluns]

I did gadical to Chatswood and back, so fast 💨 very impressive

[@hwtours]

@@garluns It’s great.👍

[@garluns]

@@hwtours think 🤔 was 12 minutes for Chatswood to gadical. The other stations look pretty impressive as well. The options to get around town is much improved

[@hwtours]

@@garluns It’s super quick.

[@TravelwithNJSteveandSue]

Hey HW, nothing better than a good rail system! Over in the US it is sort of hit or miss. Your system looks well maintained and clean! Great video for those planning to take your Metro. Like how your signs say "way out" instead of "exit" .

[@hwtours]

@@TravelwithNJSteveandSue Yep it’s a good mode of transport and now it links up with several stations on the main train routes. More to come. Thanks for watching. PS: You still getting large swells from that hurricane or has it died down?

[@TravelwithNJSteveandSue]

@@hwtours Died down but now the local rivers are flooding effecting people that live near the rivers (but not us fortunately!)

[@robman2095]

I think there might be another entrance closer to the buildings in Barangaroo but it is not going to open until the buildings and development there are closer to finished

[@hwtours]

@@robman2095 Yep I think you’re right. I did hear something about a provision for the buildings to come.

[@vinbar35]

Great video on phase 2 Metro which is a phenomenal peice of engineering no doubt about that. I can imagine that it will save quite a lot of commuting time. Mind you it seems that a fair chunk of that time saved is lost getting out of the station. Also love the rhyming slang. One you can use is have/having a butchers (as in butchers hook -look.

[@hwtours]

@@vinbar35 It’s good. Shame it wasn’t there 20 years ago. Would have received a lot more patronage. Yeh butchers hook I don’t use much. I will have to add it in with Captain Cook and the others.

[@dejanblagojevic8372]

This is awesome man if possible hopefully you can come down to Melbourne when they open new metro tunnel project do tour like this

[@hwtours]

@@dejanblagojevic8372 Thanks yeh a trip down to Melbourne to check it out possible. I lived on St Kilda rd for a few years back in the late 90s. I know the City well.

[@dejanblagojevic8372]

Thank you if you can do more vidoes in Melbourne in general would be awesome such a cool city​@@hwtours

[@brenl5727]

What a delightful video, 🎉I set whatever I was doing aside for this one, as I was very curious to see all the stops on the new metro line. Must say quite impressive 👌🏾.thank you HW. Can’t wait to do this when I visit again soon🙏And it was my pleasure with the coffee, it looked tasty.

[@hwtours]

@@brenl5727 It’s another long vid. So appreciate you getting through it. Catching the metro out to Sydenham gave me the opportunity to pick and choose from all the superb coffee roasters with HQs in Marrickville. Thanks again.

[@brenl5727]

@@hwtours I enjoy watching them, and if I have to make time I’ll do that. Your videos lets me feel close to beautiful Sydney and my long distance love 😁

[@JL-jr9gk]

Great video, those stations are really impressive, fantastic work by all involved in this massive project. I will use the service when I visit Sydney next year, looks super handy for getting around the cbd

[@hwtours]

@@JL-jr9gk It’s very quick and everything is sparkling new.

[@Thanioti]

Great video HW

[@hwtours]

@@Thanioti Thanks for watching. What station did you like best?

[@Gary-vv5gt]

Recall North Sydney used to be dead on a weekend, guess the metro brought weekends back to life there. Got off there, had a gander and there were lots of people just having lunch and whatnot today. Toilets are nice (but for how long its will last will be another question).

[@hwtours]

@@Gary-vv5gt Yeh it might keep cranking for a while as people explore the new metro. After that it will be up to the various establishment’s to keep the punters engaged.

[@carollizzi6494]

Hi HW, I love your new Metro train station. It puts our train stations to shame. Too many strikes about pay and other factors have raised ticket prices. Is the new Metro prices fair or higher. I would have viewed your video, but I have very busy, but worth the wait. The rest rooms look very clean and tidy to use and the items found while digging, that were in the cabinet, very interesting. Have a good week. 🙏👍

[@hwtours]

@@carollizzi6494 Yeh all involved in the construction did well. It looks sensational and works well. Thanks for watching. 🙏

[@carollizzi6494]

Hi HW, Thank you. I have had a Don't ask week and finally found time to view your video. Hopefully, I can relax.

[@hwtours]

@@carollizzi6494 Everyone flat chat at present. More work for less people. Appreciate you watching.

[@logocafe7624]

Interesting and impressive but if I was commuting to work daily or needed to get into or out of the city in a hurry then great. Geez a bit of a mission getting to the surface at the odd stop. i’d probably stay on the surface and Cruz with the view. Great vid thanks HW, appreciated 😊P

[@hwtours]

@@logocafe7624 Yep some are quite deep. But the escalators and elevators make it easy.

[@ScottyMaccas]

Been binge watching videos that explore every station from Chatswood to Sydenham. (There's another great one here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5uTfpxqe9-ohtU) I really appreciate all the content creators taking their time covering the new Metro! 👏

[@hwtours]

@@ScottyMaccas Plenty of punters out filming with me. People taking stills, big cameras, small cameras, the works. Those builders, architects, engineers did a great job. Thanks for watching. 🙏

[@ScottyMaccas]

@@hwtours Thanks mate looking forward to the next one!

[@BigBlueMan118]

HW are you sure about the Bubbles coming Up from the Harbour Floor recently? I thought that was back in 2016 when they were Boring the tunnels but i never hard anything more recent than that? Anyway we now have 3 tunnels under the Harbour as the final piece of WestConnex opens later this decade (Western Harbour Tunnel)

[@hwtours]

@@BigBlueMan118 You’re right it was back in 2019. That report must have got caught up with the new footage. Apologies.

[@BigBlueMan118]

@@hwtours I worked on Barangaroo remediation as well as Sydney Metro C&SW hence I was particularly interested as to whether there had been new instances of bubbles! By the way: Sydenham used to actually be called Marrickville station when the Illawarra line first opened before the Bankstown branch had been built. When the Bankstown line was built a few years later and they built a station in Marrickville, Sydenham got renamed accordingly so that the new station could take the name.

[@hwtours]

@@BigBlueMan118 Offending clip removed. That's cool you had a hand in it's construction. Also I didn't know about the renaming of Marrickville station. Thanks for letting me know.

[@BigBlueMan118]

@@hwtours yep i saw Barangaroo and Central from a very interesting angle with the Sandstone at brarangaroo and the way they had to smash through the already-constructed tunnel roof at Central. Was Epic.

[@serendipity4364]

Sydney didn't have a metro before this? 🤔

[@hwtours]

@@serendipity4364 Until this we’ve mostly had above ground trains with the odd tunnel here and there. Same all over Australia.

[@DorkBoy77]

What camera are you using? Strange rate viewing from here at 1440p60 ? I’m just about to Premiere my first vid in 4k RAW from iPhone 15 pro.. Nevermind. I just scrolled down and note the Go-Pro. 😂 Should be interesting to compare to iPhone.

[@hwtours]

@@DorkBoy77 Yeh I know the old fisheye. But what you want for a small action camera?

[@DorkBoy77]

@@hwtours Any trouble with Go Pro overheating? I find having a iPhone on me at all times makes great opportunity to capture stuff on the fly..Sometimes I can't get my phone out fast enough! I use to film with a high end DSLR. #not practical!

[@hwtours]

@@DorkBoy77 Yep overheats a lot. I’ve learnt to live with it.

[@daveg2104]

Hi HW. The most impressive stations would be Victoria Cross with the largest station cavern (although I can't comment on the smell), and Martin Place. I don't know if you noticed, but the Metro platforms at Martin Place are 3 and 4. You can go directly to platforms 1 and 2 without having to tap off and on again. Martin Place will have even more pedestrian connectivity when Hunter St metro station opens. The Opal Gate concourse at Barangaroo also has provision (behind that wall on the left) to connect to whatever developments end up being built at Barangaroo North. Those odd buildings next to the road/cliff at Barangaroo house various services associated with the Metro station. Sorry I have been absent. You could say I have been checking out the Public Hospital System from the inside. No complaints. Even the food was better than I remember it. Internet connectivity was pretty much nonexistent though, at least in the part of the hospital where I was.

[@hwtours]

@@daveg2104 Sorry to hear you’ve been going through the wars in hospital. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Thanks for watching and thanks as always for your input.

[@Gary-vv5gt]

I had a few amusements with our hospital systems, particularly the ED in general. RNSH and NBH (Northern beaches hospital), their waiting room is pretty big, substantial acute beds (around 50 beds for NBH and 30 or so? beds in RNSH) and probs around 5-10 resus rooms for both. I will say fast track is pretty flawed at NBH, as if you don't need a bed there, your often in the waiting room for hours on end. But at RNSH they used a room (probs an ex-acute room, so they have like 30 or so recliners with random guest chairs in fast track). So maybe that compensate the less acute beds for more comfort for others that don't require a bed. But also ended up in st vinnies, their waiting room was bloody tiny (but was told to wait in a tent due to fever just after lockdown and red zone after that). Heard that st vinnies have only 3 resus beds despite them copping an city and eastern suburbs load of trauma, which make northern sydney small in comparison. RPA is pretty much same story as st vinnies (i wasn't the patron by my friend was there and me being the supporter there). Its actually pretty laughable how the northern sydney ED is massive compared to the city counterpart despite city having heaps of people.

[@daveg2104]

@@Gary-vv5gt I caught one of those nasty viruses going around. Though I'd be OK, but was only improving slowly. Then caught another one on top of it. I was in ED for a few hours and then they sent me to ICU, where I was for 10 days. I should have been moved to a ward after about a week, but they didn't have any vacancies. Apparently I should have been ordering more food. That would have made them happier. I didn't know that was a thing I could do until the last couple of days. Nobody told me I could do that. I can't comment on the waiting room or wards, as I didn't see them. I would hope Northern Beaches has good facilities, being a fairly new hospital.

[@SS-yw7vo]

Naming stations by other than their suburb name is stupid

[@hwtours]

@@SS-yw7vo Victoria Cross and Gadigal are a distance from North Sydney and Town Hall. So I suppose they had no choice. Not sure.