Chalmers Street Entrance Now Open! - Sydney Metro Central Station Upgrade Almost Complete!

On Monday 13 November 2023, the new Chalmers Street Entrance to Sydney's Central Station opened to the public.

This is the last significant part of the Sydney Metro Central Station upgrade that started with the new Northern Concourse, followed by Central Walk and then the North-South Concourse.

I start with the Chalmers Street entrance itself, and then take the escalators down to the concourse level below, which is where the Opal gates are. And this connects very conveniently to Central Walk.

You'll see the 6 new escalators and 2 lifts that are part of this new station entrance.

I then head up to the Randle Lane entrance which is slightly higher up and is at the rear of this building. At the time of recording, this entrance hadn't yet opened, due to resurfacing work on Randle Lane.

You'll then see some footage of the opening day courtesy of Sharath @building beautifully.

Now the Chalmers Street entrance was due to open on Monday 29 May 2023, the same day as the north-south concourse, but it was delayed by the huge fire that erupted within the former RC Henderson Hat Factory building. This caused significant damage to the Chalmers Street station entrance, so I explain what happened and the repair work required.

I then finish off with 7 other things that have changed at Central Station during the last 4 months.

My spontaneous guest was Matthew from ‪@AheadMatthewawsome‬

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:57 Chalmers Street Level
3:08 Concourse Level (includes opening day footage)
6:50 Randle Lane level
7:43 The Lifts
8:44 Damage and Delayed Opening due to Surry Hills Fire
14:08 Newish Toilets
14:46 Why the Randle Lane entrance hasn't opened yet.
15:07 Other changes at Central Station

Mentioned in this video *
Sharath's Chalmers Street TikTok video - https://www.tiktok.com/@buildingbeaut.... Check out his Youtube channel too -    / @building   beautifully

Fire and Rescue NSW footage of Former RC Henderson Hat Factory Fire -    • Footage from major building fire in Surry ...  .

Matthews YouTube channel -    / @aheadmatthewawsome  

Credits and Attribution *
Everything listed in "mentioned in this video" above, along with the following:

Bounce Hotel Image by Jan Smith
Link - https://www.flickr.com/photos/2608579...
Licence - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Central Station Map - https://transportnsw.info/document/49...

ABC News clip of fire -    • Sydney building fire causes chaos, flaming...  .

A big thank you to the NSW Transport Ministers media team, the Rail, Fire and Emergency team and Sydney Metro for supplying the photo and video clips of the fire and repair work, including the CCTV footage.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/nsw-government...
https://www.sydneymetro.info/

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ150 camera (for the serious zoomed in close-ups!)

Microphones
DJI Mic (when filming)
Blue Yeti Microphone (for voiceovers)

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Maps created using Affinity Designer

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