Thousands celebrate Track Work at Anzac Station

The Metro Tunnel Project team hosted its first major music event inside a station on Sunday, June 15, as more than 3000 people descended on Anzac Station for Track Work – Music From the Underground.

The event, part of the RISING festival, was a five-hour celebration of live music, art and culture, featuring First Nations artists Briggs, BARKAA, Birdz and DJ Jayteehazard.

It was also an opportunity for some of the project’s biggest fans to get inside the station for a sneak peek before it opens to passengers later this year.

Visitors were able to explore the station’s concourse and platforms in between listening to live music and DJ sets from the artists at a stage near the centre of the concourse.

Attendees were curious about station features like platform screen doors and passenger information displays, as well as the retail spaces and the stunning artworks by Maree Clarke, Raafat Ishak and Fiona Hall.

Younger visitors had a ball trying to find all the animals represented in Maree’s work Tracks on the Anzac Station platform. Maree’s artwork spans all five new Metro Tunnel stations and showcases native fauna found across the traditional lands and waters of the five Kulin Nation clans.

The Metro Tunnel will create a new end-to-end rail line from Sunbury in the west to Cranbourne/Pakenham in the south east, with bigger and more modern trains, and five new stations.

With testing now under way, the Metro Tunnel will open later this year. •