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	Sydney subways
		Sydney has at present three main subway lines; a fourth is currently under construction.
		The third line is the Airport Line, which opened in the year 2000, just in time for the Sydney Olympics.
		There are also plans by the State Government for a new underground line to extend from Epping to Castle Hill, and possibly later to the new development underway at Rouse Hill, though that lies in the more distant future.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sy/Sydney_subways.html (1730 words)

	EPPING, NEW SOUTH WALES FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Epping is primarily under the municipal authority of Ward C in the Hornsby Shire Council, although Parramatta City Council and Ryde City Council both administer areas within the suburb.
		Epping Station is an important suburban railway station in Sydney; as of June 2004, the primary city-bound platform has been closed to facilitate construction of a new train line, the Epping to Chatswood line.
		Epping will be the terminus of the first stage of this new line which runs from Chatswood west to Epping, which is currently under construction.
	www.loadboston.com /Epping,_New_South_Wales (384 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sydney is the financial capital of Australia and is also a significant domestic and international tourist destination and is regularly declared to be one of the most beautiful and liveable cities in the world.
		Sydney is located in a coastal basin between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Blue Mountains to the west.
		Sydney occupies two geographical regions: the Cumberland Plain, a relatively flat or rolling region lying to the south and west of the harbour, and the Hornsby Plateau, a plateau north of the harbour, up to 200 metres (656 ft) in elevation, dissected by forested valleys.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/sydney (3788 words)

	TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine Feature Story1
		Sydney has been the focus of major tunneling work over the last few years with construction of the Cross City Tunnel and commencement of the Lane Cove Tunnel and Chatswood to Epping Rail Link.
		The M4 East in Sydney, for example, is a 4.6-km twin three-lane tunnel connecting the city’s main western freeway (M4) with an inner city freeway.
		Sydney, for example, with its favorable underground sandstone environment, is constructing wide span tunnels with flat roofs and relatively low ground cover, using rock bolt support based on beam theory.
	tunnelingonline.com /featurestory1.htm (2488 words)

	Railway Technology - Parramatta-Chatswood Rail Link Operated by Sydney State Transit Authority
		Sydney is one of hundreds of rapidly growing cities around the world that has realised the value of new rail investment.
		The project began in 1998 with the Parramatta to Chatswood link, which was to fill a missing link and establish a circular heavy rail line linking the centre of Sydney with its major suburbs.
		The key projects include doubling the Quakers Hill-Schofields line, a new passing loop on the Carlingford Line, train stabling facilities at Hornsby and Macdonaldtown, and turnbacks at the end of lines to improve the speed at which trains can be turned round.
	www.railway-technology.com /projects/parramata (1069 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Epping to Chatswood railway line, Sydney (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Epping to Chatswood line (originally to be the Parramatta Rail Link) is a railway line under construction in the Northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
		The railway line was originally intended to continue from Epping to Parramatta, partially travelling along the existing Carlingford surface line which would be widened from single-track to dual-track.
		A major benefit of the Epping-Chatswood line is, by diverting four trains per hour from Hornsby or the Central Coast on the main Northern Line at Epping to the North Shore Line at Chatswood, the load on the Main Western Line between Strathfield and Central is lessened, and the North Shore Line is better utilised.
	www.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /browse/wiki/Epping_to_Chatswood_Line,_Sydney (490 words)

	Project Profile
		To accommodate the new line, Epping Station is being upgraded and the Chatswood Transport Interchange is being redeveloped.
		The Main West and Main North Lines are currently operating close to capacity, with considerable congestion on the network between Strathfield and the Sydney CBD.
		The Epping to Chatswood Rail Line is being constructed using a combination of bored tunnelling, roadheader excavation, open cut excavation and cut and cover tunnelling techniques.
	www.raillink.nsw.gov.au /SectionIndex.aspx?PageID=24 (478 words)

	Project Profile
		The Chatswood Transport Interchange is being redeveloped into a world class inter-modal public transport interchange, providing convenient and efficient public transport access, quality open spaces, improved urban amenity and well developed buildings of high architectural and construction quality.
		Chatswood is one of Sydney’s key regional centres and Chatswood Station is the 9th busiest on the CityRail network.
		In order to meet this future patronage growth, and to accommodate the additional tracks of the future Epping to Chatswood Rail Line, Chatswood Station is being redeveloped and the platforms reconfigured.
	www.raillink.nsw.gov.au /SectionIndex.aspx?PageID=76 (473 words)

	Chatswood to Epping rail line on track - smh.com.au
		Construction is to start on the Chatswood to Epping rail line by the end of the year after the NSW Government announced it would award the contract to a three-company consortium, the Thiess Hochtief Alstom Group.
		Thiess executive general manager David Saxelby said that, by the time the line was built, more than one million cubic meters of rock would have been moved.
		The line is due for completion in 2008, with the whole project to be finsished by 2010.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/27/1023864610591.html (190 words)

	Sydney Buses - Transport Guide for Sydney
		The Sydney Buses website provides users free access to timetables, route maps, trip planners, fare information, pre-paid ticket discount options, university transport guides, guide to using our services and a wealth of other information including how bus travel contributes to better health, cleaner environment and saves you money.
		Sydney Buses provides regular bus services between the major interchanges of Sydney CBD, Wynyard, Circular Quay,Townhall, Central, North Sydney, St Leonards, Lane Cove, Epping, Macquarie Centre, Chatswood, Manly, Northern beaches, Burwood, Parramatta, Rockdale, Maroubra, Bondi Junction, Bondi Beach, Sydney Airport and many more.
		Sydney Buses also operates the popular Sydney Explorer and Bondi Explorer tourist services as part of the Sydney Pass ticket.
	www.sydneybuses.info (229 words)

	Australasian Tunelling Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Epping to Chatswood Rail Line project has entered its final phase of construction, after the laying of tracks commenced in April 2005 and the mechanical and electrical installation started in July 2005.
		The Thiess Hochtief Joint Venture (THJV) is the major contractor responsible for the excavation, lining, and track laying and through their subcontractor United, THJV are also responsible for the complete mechanical and electrical equipment for the operation of the trains.
		The assembly of the first TBM at the M2 worksite was initiated in mid July 2003 and the boring towards Epping with a fully operational conveyor system was commenced on 22 September 2003.
	www.ats.org.au /wmview.php?ArtID=80 (607 words)

	Last stop Epping as Parramatta rail link in doubt - smh.com.au
		Billed as the biggest addition to the rail network since the 1920s, and with work on the first half already under way, the line was to be finished by 2010 to shift thousands of western Sydney commuters from their cars and relieve the over-stressed CityRail network.
		Asked what factors would determine whether the line would be completed, Mr Costa said patronage levels were important and "whether there's a need for that service and whether there [are] other areas that we can expend that money and get a better return on the system".
		The Government's 1998 transport plan conceded the main western line was "rapidly reaching capacity" and that the population and economic growth in the area had not been matched by public transport improvements.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/02/1054406133708.html (730 words)

	Chatswood railway station, Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chatswood is a CityRail railway station on the North Shore railway line in Sydney, Australia, at the business centre of Chatswood.
		The station was opened, along with the North Shore railway line on 1 January 1890.
		An island platform was installed at Chatswood on 23 May 1900, and a third "local" platform brought into use on 12 July 1919.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chatswood_railway_station,_Sydney (472 words)

	Ausreo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ausreo is supplying 10,000 tonnes of concrete reinforcement materials for the construction of the twelve-kilometre underground railway link between the two Sydney suburbs of Epping and Chatswood.
		This is part of the long-awaited Parramatta to Chatswood line, which is the first major railway to be constructed in Sydney since the Southern Line via Regents Park was built almost 80 years ago.
		The Sydney Hilton is set in the middle of Sydney’s CBD, and some 500 people will be involved in the project.
	www.ausreo.com.au /projects.htm (219 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The M2 to Epping drives are 6.7 km long, of which 51% is in curves with radii ranging from 500 to 873 m.
		To simplify logistics and maximize performance, a conveyor system is used to convey muck from the two tunnels, which are 51% curve in the Epping tunnel and 89% in the Chatswood tunnel.
		The concrete roadbed is cast in place in between the TBM and backup system in a manner that is specific for this job.
	www.robbinstbm.com /newsletter/story_display.php?id=40 (533 words)

	150 years of NSW Railways
		TIDC is currently working to deliver the Rail Clearways program and the Epping to Chatswood Rail Line.
		The Epping to Chatswood Rail Line is the largest publicly funded infrastructure project underway in NSW.
		Since construction began in late 2002 significant progress has been made, with almost half of the tunnelling completed and all three new underground stations on the rail line excavated.
	www.railcorp.info /150years/beyond_2005/epping_to_chatswood (120 words)

	Calair's HFT polymer conduit selected for Chatswood to Epping line
		About 2.5 kilometres of the new product is being used to carry electrical services from one side of the tunnels to the other, with the tough flexible conduit conforming to the semi-circular arc of the tunnel crown.
		What is particularly important in applications such as the Epping to Chatswood rail line tunnel is ease of use in situations that can sometimes offer limited access within fairly restricted production schedules.
		With this system there is no need to have to bring in a variety of trades to handle it, the whole system is designed for radically simplified erection, disassembly and recycling within a fraction of the time taken to construct and change traditional metal alternative conduits.
	www.ferret.com.au /articles/z1/view.asp?id=2018 (661 words)

	Public Relations and Marketing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Epping to Chatswood Rail Line is a NSW Government initiative to increase the capacity of the Sydney rail network.
		It will be a new passenger rail line providing direct rail access for the first time to the North Ryde / Macquarie Park region, and includes the construction of three new stations - at Macquarie University, Macquarie Park and Delhi Road.
		The Line will greatly improve the public transport accessibility of this area and will increase its attractiveness for educational, employment and research activity.
	www.pr.mq.edu.au /raillink/information.htm (759 words)

	Tunnels and Tunnelling International
		Two Robbins Company TBMs broke through within two days of each other at the end of July on the Epping to Chatswood Rail Line project in Sydney.
		The event for contractor, Thiess — Hochtief Joint Venture (THJV), marked the completion of 50% of the tunnelling on the project that consists of 12km long twin tunnels to connect existing rail stations.
		The 7.2m diameter TBMs broke through on 27 and 29 July to the Epping site after being launched from the M2 shaft located near the midpoint of the tunnel route.
	www.tunnelsonline.info /story.asp?sc=27746 (316 words)

	The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: The Contrarian / Archives (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sydney Buses as an organisation is a joke and an embarassment to Sydney.
		Sydney's equivalent in the world is Hong Kong, because of its harbour, narrow streets and lack of public space and Los Angeles because of its tackiness, tinsel town atmosphere and lack of public transport.
		In any case I was using the case of the 80 years that it took to get a rail line built to the airport as an example of the long-term inadequacy in the provision of public transport by successive NSW governments - not just the current one.
	blogs.smh.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /thecontrarian/archives/2006/04/its_official_ie.html (5936 words)

	[No title]
		Its main objectives include easing train congestion on the busy Strathfield-Redfern line by providing an alternative route into town, attracting extra passengers into and out of Parramatta, Epping and Chatswood, and creating significant new business in the Marsfield area.
		The railway planners have studied several alternative routes and concluded that the best way would be via Macquarie (a station serving both the university and the adjacent large shopping centre), Macquarie Park, Delhi Road (a station serving the new Riverside industrial park), and the UTS Campus (West Lindfield).
		All roads into Chatswood are jammed during the morning peak and there is heavy congestion during business hours and on Saturday mornings.
	www.cs.usyd.edu.au /~jimd/apt/parrachat.html (1043 words)

	St Alban's & St Aidan's Anglican Churches, Parish of EPPING, NSW Australia
		Epping Railway Station is a major station on the Strathfield to Hornsby section of the Sydney-Newcastle line, with local and inter-urban trains.
		The station is designated to become a junction for the Parramatta - Carlingford - Epping - Chatswood line [on 26 March 2001 the NSW Government announced thet the Epping - Chatswood line would be commenced with an expected completion date in 2008, while construction of the greatly needed Parramatta - Epping link would be deferred].
		The snag is the resultant traffic bottleneck at the Epping Overbridge which links these major roads (excepting the M2) and crosses the Main Northern Railway.
	www.eppinganglicans.org.au /contact_us.html (698 words)

	The Daily Grind Network
		The body of a worker on the Epping to Chatswood rail link has been recovered from a construction site pond after the man, aged 24, suffered a heart attack and fell the day before.
		According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, the zoo is trying to force the government to give them a permit by building the enclosure now.
		Sydney Morning Herald columnist Alan Ramsey has described how leaders "frothed and jostled" as they reacted to the terror attacks on London.
	www.thedailygrind.net /news/archive.php?id=A2005078 (837 words)

	RailNews
		Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Federal Minister for Railways said: "Signals are being installed at Lodharan, Khaniwal and Shahdrah whereas this year we have sought funds from the government for installing signals on the 2000 km long stretch".
		The costs of Sydney’s Epping-to-Chatswood rail link has blown out by up to a quarter of a billion dollars due to bungled noise estimates and higher than expected building costs.
		The line is due to be finished as planned in 2008, but extra noise works will cost about A$70 million and inflation will drive the bill up by between A$130- $180 million.
	www.railpersonnel.com /railnews/railnews180806txt.htm (1219 words)

	Work place culture
		Lend Lease's "The Bond" building in Sydney and Melbourne's 60L Green Building and the National Australia Bank's Docklands building demonstrate that a healthy working environment stimulates staff to be more productive, happier and indeed more healthy.
		Companies with good environmental and social records have a better chance of attracting talented employees, delegates were told at the Australian Human Resource Institute national convention in Sydney.
		Managing director Mike Wilke said the move would bring the company closer to clients and allow it to recruit "the cream of industry professionals which is critical in a sector where demand for skilled staff is high".
	www.epa.vic.gov.au /lifecycle/Trends-looking-ahead/workplace.asp (843 words)

	Any recommendations for cycling from Sydney's Northwest into the city
		The M2 is OK until Lane Cove and then it is probably suicidal to attempt Epping Rd after that.
		Only a couple of spots to be wary of when using the Pacific Highway; Lane Cove at the intersection with Epping road and North Sydney where you have to cross two or three lanes to go straight down to Milsons Point.
		The opening of the epping road cycle path will provide a viable option, to bridging what many consider the missing link.
	www.cyclingforums.com /t372081.html (1165 words)

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