‘Like a Taylor Swift concert’: sleepless trainspotters spend six hours enjoying Sydney metro on busy opening day

Nearly 1,000 train fans were at Sydenham station before 5am to ride the first service on the new city section

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Self-described train nerds were most of the roughly 900 people who braved the dark hours of Monday morning to ride the first public service of Sydney Metro's new city section when it departed Sydenham at 4:54am.

Anticipation for the new line - the first with new stations underneath Sydney's CBD in more than four decades - had been picking up steam since the tunnelling megaproject under Sydney Harbour began in 2017.

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