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The History of Australian Tunnelling AUSTRALASIAN TUNNELLING SOCIETY The History of Australian Tunnellin Edited by David Lees Contents WATER TUNNELS Busby's Bore 2 Evelyn Tunnel 3 Upper Nepean Scheme 4 Duck Reach Power Station, Tasmania 5 Potts Hill Road to Waterloo Pumping Station, Sydney 6 City Tunnel, Sydney 7 Warragamba Dam 8 Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme 9 The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme 10 Poatina underground power station 12 Mersey Forth Power Development 13 Thomson-Yarra Tunnel 14 Shoalhaven Scheme 15 Hunter River Crossing 16 Gold Coast Desalination Plant 17 Bogong Power Development 18 SEWER/STORMWATER TUNNELS CABLE TUNNELS 42 TheTank Stream 20 The Royal Exchange Tunnel 43 Brisbane's Wheat Creek culvert 21 Birchgrove/Greenwich Cable Tunnel 45 Bondi Ocean Outfall Sewer (BOOS) 23 TransGrid MetroGrid Cable Tunnel 46 Melbourne Outfall 24 EA City to Haymarket Cable Tunnel 48 The Bondi Sewage Treatment Plant 25 City West Cable Tunnel Melbourne's South East Trunk Sewer 26 Sydney Mini Full FaceTBM tunnels 27 The Harbour Line 50 Sydney Ocean Outfall Tunnels 29 Darling Victoria Tunnel 51 Melbourne North Western Sewer 30 52 Blue Mountains Effluent Transfer Scheme 31 Lithgow Zig Zag Tunnel 53 Northside Storage Tunnel 32 Rhyndaston The Dalveen Tunnel 54 Perth Main Sewer Replacement 33 Tunnel 57 Brisbane SI Sewer 34 Ardglen Hill Tunnels 58 Suntown pipe jack 35 Sleeps Boolboonda Tunnel 59 Heroes Avenue, Brisbane 36 Railway Tunnels 60 Alkimos-Ouinns Main Sewer 38 Lillyvale Cheviot Railway Tunnel, Molesworth 61 Melbourne's Northern Sewerage Project 39 Otford Tunnel 62 Old GlenbrookTunnel, Blue Mountains 63 o Swan View Tunnel 64 Canungra Tramway Tunnel 65 10 Tunnels Deviation 66 z z Muntapa Tunnel 67 3 K The Glebe Point Tunnel 68 z < Bunbury Street Tunnel 69 < Sydney City Circle 70 CsC 71 b; St James a 74 < TheCougal Spiral u. 75 o Bethungra Spiral >- 76 DC Eastern Suburbs Railway-Sydney O Greenvale Line 78 The Melbourne Underground Railway Loop 79 PerisherSkitube 81 M5 East Tunnel-Sydney 100 South East Transit Busway-Vulture Street Tunnel 101 Yelgun Bypass -Cudgen Road Tunnel 103 Sydney Cross City Tunnel 104 Lane Cove Tunnel 105 Brisbane Inner Northern Busway 106 Tugun Bypass 107 Eastlink-Mitchamto Frankston Freeway 108 Boggo Road Tunnel, Brisbane 110 Brisbane's North-South Bypass 112 Cockatoo Island - Underground grain silos 114 Seppelts Champagne Cellars 114 Woolloomooloo Oil Tanks 115 Darwin WW II Oil Tunnels 116 Desert Cave Hotel 117 Sydney Opera House Underground Car Park 118 Olympic Rail Loop, Sydney 82 Sydney LPG Cavern 120 New Southern Railway 83 Wambo Rail Spur 84 The New MetroRail City Project, Perth 85 Middle Head, Sydney 122 Eppingto Chatswoocf Railway 86 Australian Mining Corps 123 Air Defence Control Centre at Bankstown 125 Mount Isa Underground Hospital 126 Grafton Convict Tunnel 87 King William Road, Adelaide 87 Bullio Tunnel 88 Whalers Tunnel, WA 128 General Holmes Drive, Sydney AirportTunnel 90 Adelaide Treasury 129 Kings Cross Tunnel 91 Fremantle Gaol Tunnels 130 Sydney HarbourTunnel 92 Sydney's Underground shopping precinct 131 M2Tunnel Sydney 94 Port Hedland HarbourTunnel 132 Graham Farmer Freeway 95 Conrad Jupiters CasinoTunnel, Surfers Paradise 133 Sydney Eastern Distributor 96 Flemington Racecourse Tunnel 134 Crafers Highway - Eagle on the Hill Tunnels 97 Melbourne City Link 98 Tunnel Database 135.
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