The hidden tunnels and well-kept secrets lurking underneath Sydney’s streets have been revealed by a former train worker.
In the carpark of an office building on Pitt Street, behind an electrical substation, is a metal door that leads to a tunnel winding its way under the city to Central Station.
One former Transport NSW employee told Daily Mail Australia the tunnel is one of many under central station shut off from the public.
He did not wish to be named but revealed he had access to the tunnels from his time as an employee.
The hidden tunnels underneath Sydney’s historic train stations have been revealed by a former train worker
In the carpark of an office building on Pitt Street, behind an electrical substation, is a metal door that leads to a tunnel winding its way under the city to Central Station
‘The entrance to this particular tunnel is near a loading dock in an underground carpark behind an electrical substation,’ he said.
‘It’s used mainly these days for cleaners and freight, it’s also a shortcut for the drivers and other train workers.’
‘There’s also a locked vault with a steel door in this tunnel, no one is allowed through the door and no one knows what’s in there.’
‘It’s a bit unnerving if you’re in there for long periods of time,’ the former train worker revealed.
He posted a photograph of the tunnel to Reddit, where viewers were intrigued by the secret passageway.
‘Is that one of the tunnels were they have a door that you’re not allowed to go through,’ one Reddit user asked.
‘Yeah that’s one of the baggage tunnels, the red door down the end goes through to the drivers quarters. Not much down there except some rats,’ one man replied.
The former train worker also said there are tunnels under the heritage St James Station near Hyde Park.
The former train worker also said there are tunnels under the heritage St James Station near Hyde Park
One of the hidden ‘ghost platforms’ under St James station from a line that was abandoned in the 1940s
The tunnels under St James station contain a former bomb shelter and, surprisingly, an underground lake.
In addition to the secret tunnels, another spooky fact about Central Station is rarely known by commuters.
Stripped bare but largely still in tact, platforms 26 and 27 were built in the 1970s on the site of the old Devonshire Street Cemetery.
The bodies lying in the graveyard were reburied across the city decades before the station were built but workers recently inspecting the unused platform have reported some eerie goings-on in the dusty underworld.
Lying deep beneath Sydney’s Central station is one of the city’s hidden secrets – the stripped bare but fully in tact platforms 26 and 27
Sydney Trains officials have reported hearing voices echoing against the walls, and even the sound of children playing.
Director of operations with Sydney Trains Tony Eid also claims to have heard the sound of children’s voices on a visit to station’s never-used tunnels.
He previously told the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Workers down here said they would hear kids playing and, thinking they were vandals, would go and investigate.
‘On one occasion I was down here with a radio crew and we all heard children playing. Take that as you wish but we all heard it’.
Sydney Trains officials have reported hearing voices echoing against the walls, and even the sound of children playing
Platforms 26 and 27 were built in the 1970s on the site of the old Devonshire Street Cemetery, and the ghosts of the deceased seem to still be present to this day
Sydney Open offer tours of the mysterious underground maze beneath Central station – featuring presenters from the Australian Railway Historical Society and Sydney Trains staff
Aside from the station’s ghostly past, it is also the site of more tangible historical events like the Battle of Central Station – where soldiers rebelling against the army were involved in a shoot-out with armed military guards.
One stray bullet hole near platform one is what remains of the exchange started by a drunken soldier’s gunshot – which led to the guards killing one and injuring eight when they returned fire.
The unnerving reports from beneath Central station are paralleled by similar reports elsewhere on the Sydney Trains network – such as Macquarie Fields where there have been reports of a ghostly apparition
The unnerving reports from beneath Central station are paralleled by similar reports elsewhere on the Sydney Trains network.
Ghost hunters at Macquaire Fields train station in the city’s southwest claim to have seen a ghostly apparition clutching her bloodied chest and shrieking in terror.
Other claim to have heard a ‘faint crying on the breeze’ late night following the departure of the last train.
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