Barangaroo metro station

Barangaroo metro station is an upcoming station on the Sydney Metro City & Southwest line of the Sydney Metro network in Sydney, Australia. It serves the suburb of Barangaroo, in the north-western corner of the CBD area, as well as surrounding areas of Walsh Bay and Millers Point.

History
While plans for a harbour rail tunnel have been government policy for more than a decade, neither the 2005 Metropolitan Rail Expansion (MREP) and 2012 Sydney's Rail Future strategies envisaged the new line stopping at Barangaroo. The various metro rail proposals of 2008–10, which involved lines running west from the CBD towards Rozelle and the northern suburbs, would have included a station between Wynyard and Barangaroo. These proposals were shelved in 2010, however. The government also considered a light rail line from Central to Barangaroo via Sussex Street and Hickson Road, but nothing came of this proposal.

With the first buildings at Barangaroo opening in 2015 and no mass transit construction imminent, Transport for NSW instead began work on the Wynyard Walk: a pedestrian tunnel to connect Wynyard station and the new precinct. The walkway was opened in September 2016.

In 2015, Premier Mike Baird announced the government's intention to divert the second harbour rail crossing via Barangaroo to allow a station to be built there. On 10 November 2018 NSW Transport announced that a 180-year-old timber boat was met with during excavation works for the Metro station, regarded as 'the oldest boat of its kind ever found in NSW'. Wood samples revealed it is made from Sydney Blue Gum, Stringybark and Spotted Gum.

Configuration
Barangaroo will be a fully underground station, located 25m below street level.

The station will be located at Barangaroo Reserve, near Hickson Road. Barangaroo station's role on the Sydney Metro network is a Metro-specific counterpart designed in order to cut down on congestion at Sydney Trains' Wynyard and Martin Place stations. Barangaroo metro station will also allow customers to more easily access northern parts of the city.

The station started construction in 2017, and is expected to open in 2024. Platforms are likely to be constructed in an island configuration.