{"id":78992,"date":"2024-07-04T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/?p=116754"},"modified":"2024-07-04T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:50:21","slug":"sydney-metro-operations-centre-doubles-in-size-to-support-city-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=78992","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Metro operations centre doubles in size to support City services"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/OCC.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\"><figcaption>Image\/Sydney Metro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"block--field-field-news-intro-text block\" data-block-plugin-id=\"field_block:node:news:field_news_intro_text\">\n<div class=\"contextual-region field field--name-field-news-intro-text field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydneymetro.info\/\">Sydney Metro<\/a>\u2019s expanded Operations Control Centre (OCC) has been unveiled at the Sydney Metro Trains Facility in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand\/state-based-news\/nsw\/\">Tallawong<\/a> ahead of service starting on the Sydney Metro City &amp; Southwest in August.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"more-116754\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"block--field-body block\" data-block-plugin-id=\"field_block:node:news:body\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>To ensure seamless operations of the extended network, the OCC is now home to seven new operator consoles and a display screen spanning 17 metres, the 10 monitors used to monitor the Metro North West Line have been increased to a wall of 63 screens and the floor space has doubled in size,. These screens will provide oversight of the entire network.<\/p>\n<p>A cohort of\u202f13 new recruits have been added to the ranks to help manage the highly sophisticated network, which is operated and maintained 24\/7 by Metro Trains Sydney (MTS).<\/p>\n<p>The automated metro network is monitored and controlled by MTS staff at the OCC, where they can:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 View 3500 CCTV cameras at stations, on trains and in tunnels<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Connect directly to the Transport Management\u202fCentre (TMC),\u202f NSW Police\u202fand emergency services<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Coordinate\u202foperational responses and network performance<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Provide real-time customer information, including PA announcements and updates to passenger information displays inside trains and at stations<\/p>\n<p>As part of the wider expansion at the Trains Facility, upgrades have been made to the stabling yard to accommodate the 23 new train sets, which form part of a new combined fleet of 45 trains. This work included laying 11 new tracks, bringing the total number of tracks at the facility to 35.<\/p>\n<p>When fast and reliable Metro services start through the city, a metro train will arrive every four minutes in the peak creating capacity for 100,000 extra commuters to travel across Sydney during the busiest periods of the day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/sydney-metro-operations-centre-doubles-in-size\/\">Sydney Metro operations centre doubles in size to support City services<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/OCC.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Image\/Sydney Metro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sydney Metro\u2019s expanded Operations Control Centre (OCC) has been unveiled at the Sydney Metro Trains Facility in Tallawong ahead of \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/sydney-metro-operations-centre-doubles-in-size\/\">Sydney Metro operations centre doubles in size to support City services<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,2251,10520,166,163,174],"tags":[10376],"class_list":["post-78992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-technology","category-nsw","category-operations-maintenance","category-operations-and-maintenance","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-train-operations","tag-rail-express"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78993,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78992\/revisions\/78993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}