Martin Place railway station is a heritage-listed underground suburban rail and rapid transit station located on the Eastern Suburbs line, serving the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. Named after Martin Place, it is served by Sydney Trains' T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line, NSW TrainLink's South Coast Line and Sydney Metro's North West & Bankstown Line. It was designed by Fowell, Mansfield Jarvis and McLurcan and built from 1973 to 1979. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History
Martin Place Station was opened on 23 June 1979 as part of the inauguration of the Eastern Suburbs Railway (ESR) line. The station had been constructed using an open-cut excavation. Included among the 'actions', was the extension of Martin Place as a pedestrian plaza through to Macquarie Street. This extension of the closure to Macquarie Street had long been proposed and objected to by various parties, not the least of whom were the affected property owners. The design of Martin Place Railway Station played an important role in promoting the extension of Martin Place to Macquarie Street and in determining the design of the easternmost end of the plaza. The upgrade was completed in April 2011.
As part of the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project, a further two platforms opened in August 2024, as well as the Muru Giligu walkway ("path of light") to the Hunter Street exit.
Station configuration
The station is entirely below ground. A concourse serving Sydney Trains services opened in 1979 is accessed via stairs from Martin Place and then banks of three escalators to the concourse level. Pedestrian access is via arcades constructed at the same time as the station and leading to adjacent office and retail plazas. The ceiling of the public concourse above the platforms is raked following the topography of the street above and the supporting concrete beams are painted red to match the feature ceramic wall tiling, also in red.
A service tunnel extends from Martin Place railway station under Sydney Hospital into The Domain. The tunnel carries air conditioning services from an underground room, which is located beneath two ventilation towers in The Domain, by the side of the road behind Sydney Hospital.
|p1blinename = South Coast Line
|p1bstop = services to Wollongong, Dapto & Kiama
|p1bnotes = 3 weekday early morning services to Kiama commence here
|p2alinename = T4
|p2astop = services to Bondi Junction
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Heritage listing
As at 6 October 2015, Martin Place underground railway station is significant as a representative of the latest major railway construction undertaken in the State in the eastern suburbs railway line. The whole of the structure being underground is a development of the structures built in the city in the 1930s and represents the latest in technology at the time.