Abandoned Tracks: Central and St James 

Looks like the planners of yesterday built for tomorrow but the planners of today build for yesterday.

I can verify the sacrifice thing down there. We Used to sneak around those tunnels back in the early eighties as a school kid , they were completly accessible to th public back then with no doors or locks at the end of the station. During one of our jaunts , we ( just myself and one other) came accross one of the chambers that had a series of used candles that ran from the entrance(nthn) along floor of both the rihgt and left side walls upto a circle with pentagram at the end. On the right wall about half way down were starter bars sticking out about six inches (looked like a peice of concrete and brick about 2m sq had been smashed off ). Most of the starter bars we'r bent down but the were a few that wernt and they had dried blood on them and on the wall n floor. As you can imagine, with the only light being that of an old school dolphin torch, we promtly shat ourselves and got the puck out of there. We only told our mates at school(we knew we weren't meant to be down there or in that area in school uniform). The ones who went down and found it never went back in those tunnels, just as I have never been back in them since about '84

Nice, im proud to say i have explored both ends of st james, and the ghost platfoms of central back in my cave clan days.

Platforms 26 and 27 at Central were used for storage back in the day, went down there probably half a dozen times in the early to mid 90's when I was a maintenance electrician for the railway (pre-privatisation).

I would love to take a tour down there and hear stories about it.

Matatan ® Ribirin H-S° Excellent documentary well done like always no doubt with that,

Absolutely amazing

Great Video! Very interesting! I hope the tunnels are revived to good use some time soon! :)

Very interesting. Have a nice day now.

As of Oct 2018, there is now talk on the news of turning them into clubs and tourist attractions

It's a rare video that has 0 dislikes....

I have been in platform 26#27 last week. Pretty cool

They should probably repurpose those tunnels so the Metro can operate them...

North Sydney Station also has an abandoned tunnel on the North West side

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4:16 Correction: *Not* courtesy "7news" but courtesy *STATION ATN-SYDNEY NEWS!* It's the *STATION* that creates the bulletin! The channel is nothing more than the frequency range(7 Mhz wide) on which the *STATION* transmits its signal!

Are there unused platforms at Museum as well ?

its amazing they new used them for metro googus.

I paddled across this lake in an inflatable boat from Rebel Sports. Very easy to access, just need to jump off the back of a moving train :)

If the could connect the tunnels to Chatswood the metro can run thru them

Does anybody know what's going on underneath Melbourne? If you do, I've heard they're might be something similar happening in Sydney too.

A Thing of Beauty

Considered connecting the metro line platforms to the existing unused platforms Of Saint James & Central Station ?Along with expansion of Central station

There’s a movie made about these tunnels that film crew that snuck in there and got attacked

I haven't been to Sydney for several decades but at that time I used Wynyard station a lot. My memory is now failing, but I seem to recall that Wynyard station did not have platforms 1 and 2. Would that have been related to the subject of this video?

Mum used to work a phone switch board in the St James tunnel during the 2nd world war in the control room tells a story about being escorted by a warden down a tunnel using a touch Her day job was working the switch board at Marcus Clarks building now the Tafe building right next to the Darling harbour goods line were in came out of the tunnel under Broadway as the troop trains came through the tunnel the train would blow there whistle mum and the other women would run to the windows next to the line and wave to the men that were going off to war

Ah the nation builders- the great leftovers of the Victorian era. Building always with the future in mind & achieving truly remarkable things. Then we come to today. Always building with the present in mind & still achieving truly remarkable things, but things which sadly cost more & more because there is no unified vision.

As a direct result of 9/11, a lot of the exploration (especially public expos conducted by the SCC) were sadly lost due to motion detectors/surveillance. No more just casually hoping down into the Tank Stream next to the SSX at 3AM. You could probably still reach the abandoned Bondi Junction tunnel with some effort though.

Use the platforms & lines for The reintroduced lightrail tram lines or new metro lines

Can you gp down there?

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About a year after this was made (2019) the State Government called for expressions of interest to develop these tunnels but, as far as I know, nothing came of it. The spare platforms at Central are being used now during the construction of the Central Walk pedestrian tunnels under the suburban platforms and will be used to house equipment for the walk. Was any part of The Matrix actually filmed at St James? The subway scenes certainly were not filmed there.

I have been there protect it and make sure big gates r closed

I live in sydney

6:38 Have a good WHAT???!!!

Why the ominous music?

Which tunnel goes to Mobil Avenue? lol

I think we need to tap the town planner on the shoulder and ask that person ...but it's too late now.

Stuff the metro. a proper eastern suburbs line should have been completed. Futhermore there were also plans for a northern beaches line to connect to north Sydney

for me the volume is much too low

Fascinating history oration , another waste of money it would seem though worthy of keeping intact

What’s with the sinister horror music?

Great video, music is ridiculous.

yeah well derr. redfern was the original station prior to central lol. no wonder the society had a building there

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Full volume on tablet and still couldn't hear the full story,better luck next time,would have been good to tell what he was talking about.