File:Sydney Metro Pitt Street update, April 2018

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The first major demolition work has finished at Pitt Street Station, one of Sydney’s new CBD metro railway stations. Eight buildings have been removed for the northern entrance of the new Pitt Street Station – the highest, 14 storeys.

Over seven months, crews gradually brought down buildings on Castlereagh, Park and Pitt streets floor by floor, with excavators craned as high as 51 metres to carry out demolition from the top down.

During demolition, 21,000 tonnes of concrete, 5,500 tonnes of bricks and 570 tonnes of steel were all recycled.

Sydney Metro services start in the first half of 2019 in the city’s north west, with metro rail to be extended under Sydney Harbour, through the CBD and beyond to Bankstown in 2024 – when Sydney will have 31 metro stations and a 66km metro railway.