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Metro Tunnel lessons just a click away

Metro Tunnel lessons just a click away

The Metro Tunnel Project has stepped into the virtual classroom to help parents tackle home schooling. The project’s online education resources have been refreshed to help students learn from home about the biggest public transport project in Victoria’s history. COVID-19 restrictions mean Metro Tunnel HQ – which hosts school groups – is temporarily closed but students can still complete fun and educational activities through our website. Check out the virtual tour of Metro Tunnel HQ and videos explaining the new train line and the construction technology used to build it. There are games, puzzles and challenges that will make you an expert in no time, and exercises are suitable for primary and high school students. Mini Melbourne is a world-first resource brought to life for the Metro Tunnel Project. Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) partnered with the Victorian Department of Education and Training to recreate 600,000 sqm of Melbourne’s city centre in Minecraft. Any Minecraft user can download the map and begin exploring. A series of themed pages invite children to collect badges as they learn more about aspects of the project on their way to becoming a “Metro Tunnel Mastermind”. metrotunnel.vic.gov.au/education Millie and Alice on a mission There is light at the end of the tunnel for tunnel boring machines (TBMs) Millie and Alice as they move towards the Metro Tunnel’s eastern entrance in South Yarra. The two TBMS were launched from the site of the new Anzac Station on St Kilda Rd earlier this year and have been working around the clock as they construct the eastern sections of the twin nine-kilometre tunnels. Millie has completed one kilometre of the 1.7km section between Anzac Station and South Yarra. Alice, which was launched soon after, has reached the halfway mark. The two TBMs are expected to arrive at the eastern tunnel entrance later this year. They will then be transported back to the Anzac Station site to be reassembled, ready to start tunnelling towards the CBD early next year. The Metro Tunnel Project’s other two TBMs, Joan and Meg, are tunnelling from Arden Station to Parkville. The TBMs were custom-built for this project and travel about 10 metres a day. Construction is continuing across all Metro Tunnel Project sites in accordance with the COVID-19 health and safety procedures in place •  

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