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Sydney Metro Driverless Rapid Transit

Revision 2026-08-12-sydney-evidence-baseline · effective 2026-08-12

Superseded. A later revision exists: 2026-08-20-source-dates-b2 →

unreviewed

Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 3 claims and 6 source dossiers.

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Change set

add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.
add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.

3: of 3 claims mapped
6: source dossiers
0: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-95f9d9600f528b52 quantitative

Sydney Metro's Northwest line opened 26 May 2019 as Australia's first fully automated, driverless metro service, with platform screen doors at every station and trains supervised from a control centre.

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Urban Transport Magazine dates the Northwest opening to 26 May 2019, identifies it as Australia's first fully automated metro and records platform screen doors at all stops; Sydney Metro's operations explainer documents driverless control from the Rouse Hill control centre, while its screen-door update covers the City & Southwest stations.
Caveat: The sentence combines system features documented across the original Northwest line and the later City & Southwest extension; it does not imply one source states every component.

Sources carrying this claim

Urban Transport Magazine — Australia's first metro system opened in Sydney
Sydney Metro — behind the scenes: operations
Sydney Metro — all platform screen doors on city stations now complete

Claim 2 clm-3f1bf651643681a7 quantitative

The City & Southwest extension into the CBD opened 19 August 2024.

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The Transport for NSW opening notice dates passenger service through the city to 19 August 2024.
Caveat: The government page blocked automated retrieval during this pass; the mapping retains the exact source previously checked in the Sydney review.

Sources carrying this claim

Transport for NSW — Sydney Metro is now open

Claim 3 clm-43098971e2fb4f88 descriptive

Northwest line runs driverless services as frequently as every four minutes at peak, monitored around the clock from a central control centre rather than by on-board drivers.

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Urban Transport Magazine reports four-minute peak services; Sydney Metro documents round-the-clock staffing of the control centre, automated supervision of train movements and that an on-board driver is not required.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Urban Transport Magazine — Australia's first metro system opened in Sydney
Sydney Metro — behind the scenes: operations

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-12-sydney-evidence-baseline effective 2026-08-12 · created 2026-08-12

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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Revision history → Permanent version link → Machine-readable record → Evidence Constitution →

3: of 3 claims mapped
6: source dossiers
0: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator: Sydney Metro (Transport for NSW), trains operated under contract by Metro Trains Sydney
Actor types: regional-government, private
Funding model: public
Funding description: NSW state government capital works program
Cost: A$8.3bn (Northwest line); City & Southwest cost grew to roughly A$20.5bn after 2023 budget revisions
Ownership: Not recorded
Decision rights: Not recorded
Exit conditions: Not recorded

6 source dossiers

Sydney Metro — driverless trains start passenger services sydneymetro.info · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-1700dee9c7a3c594
Publisher: Name not classified · sydneymetro.info
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Operator announcement about additional driverless trains entering Northwest passenger service in 2022; background, not the 2019 launch source.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Sydney Metro — behind the scenes: operations sydneymetro.info · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-8b6200bfc02f9771
Publisher: Name not classified · sydneymetro.info
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Operator explainer on driverless operation, control centre, safety systems.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-95f9d9600f528b52
clm-43098971e2fb4f88

Transport for NSW — Sydney Metro is now open transport.nsw.gov.au · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-2391d55e9757feed
Publisher: Name not classified · transport.nsw.gov.au
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Government source, City & Southwest opening, 19 August 2024.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-3f1bf651643681a7

Sydney Metro — all platform screen doors on city stations now complete sydneymetro.info · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-74bc22d6a05ddd44
Publisher: Name not classified · sydneymetro.info
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Operator confirmation of platform screen doors on City & Southwest stations.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-95f9d9600f528b52

Urban Transport Magazine — Australia's first metro system opened in Sydney urban-transport-magazine.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-40a1792741964690
Publisher: Name not classified · urban-transport-magazine.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Independent trade press corroboration of the ‘first automated metro in Australia’ claim.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-95f9d9600f528b52
clm-43098971e2fb4f88

International Railway Journal — Sydney Metro City & Southwest project exceeds budget railjournal.com · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-01fc19bcea01fa0c
Publisher: Name not classified · railjournal.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Independent trade press, cost overrun figures for City & Southwest.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Known limits of this passport

Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.