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Assuming this comment is intended as sarcasm, I will add some factors that give a more realistic context. - Not all cities are the same. A hole in the ground isn't always the same thing not because of the hole, but because of all the things you need to dig through to make the hole (the different soil and rock types, surface vs deeper geology, plus hydrology which is a major factor when building in a floodplain city like Brisbane. - These challenges multiply when you are completing a project of a kind that hasn't been done recently (or ever) in Brisbane. Not only do you not have a base of experienced workers and engineers on hand, you have to rediscover a lot of the above realities about working in the Brisbane geological environment.

@@Beeblebrox6868 utter RUBBISH! Australia has built multiple underground rail systems over generations and Brisbane itself, doubled its own inner-city rail tunnel capacity, in the early 1990's, such feats are well within the skills-sets available! It's been a typical ALP/CFMEU co$tly stuff-up, from day 1 😂

@@mmmail1969 This reply is a general spray with partisan political flavouring but lacking anything like informed analysis. You missed the point I was making which is that "Australia" isn't a city, it's many cities, each with very different conditions. You can't cookie-cutter this stuff. And the way tunnels were built in the early 1990s was quite different - they weren't using TBMs back then.

@@Beeblebrox6868 doesn't change the FACTS! God Bless!

@@mmmail1969 name a single fact youve said in this entire comment chain. you're right. your opinion doesnt change the facts. earthworks and especially tunneling is an extremely complex and varied process, that is highly reliant on the soil makeup along every cm of the dig.

probably trying to throw some blame so when they finish behind schedule they can say they where early

It's very unlikely to not be completed and running until 2029, more realistically it should be complete by 2026 with services likely running in 2027. 2029 was more of a politics call (to make the opposition look bad) than anything else from the contacts I know of in the industry.

CFMEU

You're thinking of every project 😂

i can't see it being completed in 2029 with how much progress has been done to me it likes 2 more years is needed because fit out has already started or is about to begin, but i guess the government knows more than us.

government is overestimating so they can open it in late 2026 and call it “early”

Saw it recently since there were closures through the city corridor and we had to take the exhibition loop to Roma St. It's coming along nicely from the outside, I'm personally very excited

Same with Jay, looked like it was nearly finished and that all there needs to be done is just installing furniture and stuff along those lines. I'd probably guesstimate that it will be done in time for next year's Ekka

At this point of the time, the project is almost certainly going to be finished before 2029. At the earliest being around late 2026

​@@BrissyTrainSpottinglol you are misinformed. Do you have any idea how long it takes to test electrical interlocking?? No I bet you don't. Years ... Also have you seen Normanby yard?? It's a construction site and there's so much fitting and tidying up to do yet. 2026 yeah right... You don't understand construction

oh great, it looks like you do this for a living, going around to CRR themselves and calling them “wrong” Get a Life ☠️

​@@BrissyTrainSpottingyou have the name "Brissy train spotting" and you have the audacity to tell me to get a life?? 😅 Okay bro. If that's the level of your intellect. And so you know, you are wrong. You have zero clue on how construction works, because if you think this project will be up and running to the public by 2026 then you seriously need a wake up call.

​​@@BrissyTrainSpotting what kind of life should I get?? One where I walk around Brisbane spotting trains?? And posting my uneducated opinion online? Maybe I can learn from you.. since you're the master

Wrong. Unfinished, points had to be manipulated to get the train in the tunnel. The electrical interlocking system was not functioning to get the train in the tunnel. It's still a construction site. .. The 1st train was just a publicity stunt. Not a giant step, but a stupid one. Would you drive an unfinished vehicle on an ungraded motorway with no signage??? .😅

whats ngr

only ngr for now before the nngr is out. Pretty sure SMU and IMUs do not have the power for the steep incline.

NGRs for now and once QTMPs are built they can handle the grades too.

@@cameronkoch12 the latest big long trains. not the ones that have 2 trains attached to each other. NGR stands for Next Generation Rollingstock

NGRs, already have ETCS, and they will immediately be running in the tunnels. IMU 160s and SMU 260s will be and have been upgraded to have a life extention, including upgrades to support ETCS Level 2. And of course, the QTMP trains, colloquially called by some the "Olympic" trains will immediately run in the tunnels.

It's widespread - China uses a modified version, Africa, India, south America have ETCS installations as well