Transport For NSW | Australian-first technology set to transform Sydney Metro City & Southwest @TransportForNSW | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
Sydney Metro has awarded a contract that will see new mechanical gap filler technology installed at stations between Marrickville and Bankstown as part of the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project.

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Australian-first technology one step closer on the Bankstown Line
Making it safer and more accessible for customers
Sydney Metro has awarded the contract to supply and install platform screen doors and mechanical gap filler technology
When a train arrives at a station, mechanical gap fillers will automatically extend quickly from the platform
Closing the gap between the train and the platform before the platform screen doors open
Allowing safe and easy access for all customers
A year-long testing program put the platform screen doors and mechanical gap fillers through their paces
In a variety of Sydney weather conditions
Platform screen doors are designed to keep people and objects like prams safe
Sydney Metro is upgrading all 10 stations between Marrickville and Bankstown to modern metro standards
All stations will have lifts and level access between the train and the platform
Making them fully accessible for the first time
Sydney Metro is Australia's most advanced railway
46 metro stations by 2030
4 metro lines by 2030
113km new metro rail
Sydney Metro Australia's biggest public transport project