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29/10/2026

Southwest Metro OPENS TOMORROW + Suburb Crawl on SUNDAY!

Trick or treat?... 🎃

Treat! ❤️‍🩹

The Southwest Metro section from Sydenham to Bankstown will be opening this Friday October 30th! Come along with RailSoc as we catch the first Metro.

We’ll then explore some suburbs along the new metro extension on Sunday November 1st with Western Sydney Society and Asian Studies Association. We’ll be visiting Campsie and Lakemba before finishing at Bankstown for a community event organised by TfNSW!

There will be services every 4 minutes during peak times. Peak! 🤩

Overall, there will be 66km of track between Tallawong and Bankstown, allowing commuters to travel longer distances without changing transport modes. Additionally, the Metro will have many features that improve accessibility and safety. 🚇

Details
1st Event: The Beginning
📆 Date: Friday 30th October
🕘 Time: 4am
📍 Location: Bankstown Station

2nd Event: Suburb Crawl
📆 Date: Sunday 1st November
🕘 Time: 9:40am
📍 Location: Central Station

🎫 Sign Up: Links in bio!

29/10/2026

Southwest Metro opens TOMORROW (30th October)! 🚇

Can’t wait? Here is a little sneak peek at the brand new Metro experience! We would like to thank Chris Minns and John Graham for the preview, and we hope you will enjoy the ride just as much as we did.

28/10/2026

Shark Tank - Submissions Extended!

We’ve decided to extend submissions for our Tangara Replacement Shark Tank event! Remember to get them in before Week 8 Wednesday, November 4.

Task 🚉
1. Design a component that would be on a Future Suburban Train. Examples of ideas that participants could explore include new seat fabric designs, new PID designs, new motor designs + many more.

2. Create a 5 minute long presentation for our 3 Sharks to explain your proposal for a to be confirmed day in W8.
- During this presentation, participants should explain how their proposal improves the passenger experience and reliability/durability of the train.

Details
⚠️ Submission Deadline: By 11:59pm Wednesday November 4, participants will need to submit a roughly 100 word explainer of their proposal and their presentation slides.
🗓️ Date of Presentation: 9th of November
🧑‍⚖️ Judges: Sharath Mahendran (From Building Beautifully), Jimmy Wu (Outgoing President & Tangara Hater), Francis Gonzales (Incoming Marketing Exec & Tangara Defender)
🕡 Time: 5-8pm
📍 Location: TBA

28/10/2026

UNSW Railway & Transit Society got a special preview of the Sydney Metro 🚇 M1 South West extension. A special thank you to Chris Minns

24/10/2026

We are pleased to announce that RailSoc has won the 2026 People's Choice for Outstanding Multimedia Award and Clubs Community Outstanding Club Collaboration Award (alongside , , , , , and ) at the 2026 Arc Club of the Year Awards! This means that we won all awards we were shortlisted for!

The Outstanding Multimedia Award was received in recognition of our short film 'The Last Train Home' and the Outstanding Club Collaboration Award was received in recognition of the Sydney Challenge Scramble, a multi-club scavenger hunt across Sydney that had 200+ attendees.

We would like to thank our members for supporting us along the way and for allowing the society to be so great! We have achieved so much since our founding in 2024 and it is an honour to have our impacts recognised. These awards are proof of our strong community and excellence as a club. We would also like to thank our internals team for their often unnoticed work of ensuring that the society runs smoothly and navigating of though challenges along the way.

Special thanks are extended to Jimmy Wu, our outgoing President for his leadership in this society and Ethan Tran, our esteemed Treasurer for maintaining the society internally. Jimmy has been with the society since day one (originally as Secretary) and whose work in helping to build RailSoc, as well as his contributions to numerous other UNSW societies over the years, was recognised with the Shivraj Ganasan Memorial Award (Arc Club Award of Excellence). Special thanks are also given to Enoch Chen, the director, writer and cinematographer behind 'The Last Train Home' and to all others who were involved in the making of the short film.

Going forward, RailSoc aims to continue to dedicate ourselves in providing opportunities and a safe space for our community to bond over our common passion of railways and transit.

24/10/2026

RailSoc Railway Exhibition

Next week, we will be holding our own model railway exhibition! Our internals and members have worked hard on our very own model railway, based around the modular T-Trak system. This is your chance to view the whole circuit, on campus.

If you missed the display at Thornleigh earlier in the year, or you liked it so much that you want to see it again, come along and see the passion of the RailSoc community made manifest.

🗓️ Details:
29 October 2026 (Thursday)
4PM - 8PM
Squarehouse 206

24/10/2026

Shark Tank is coming back! Last year, we let you propose your own railway line 🛤️ . This time, you get to design your own Tangara replacement (the 5th gen trains) 🚆!

Famous transport YouTuber Sharath Mahendran (Building Beautifully) is returning as a guest judge this year! Alongside him will be our two other guest judges Jimmy Wu (outgoing President and Tangara hater) and Francis Gonzales (incoming Marketing & Media Exec. and Tangara defender)!

You do not have to design the entire train, it can be just a part of the new train. Whether you want the new train to be single-decker, to look like the one from Paris or Tokyo, the choice is yours!

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The deadline currently is set at Oct. 27th, what are you waiting for? Make your submission through the link in your bio now!

17/10/2026

RailSoc Visits: The Great Train Show

This Saturday, we will be making our way to the Rosehill Gardens Racecourse to visit the Great Train Show, the largest model railway exhibition in Sydney! If you enjoyed seeing the dioramas at the Thornleigh event earlier this year, this one is not-to-miss.

In addition to the many well-crafted dioramas on display, there will be many stalls and vendors dedicated to selling books, decorations, and second-hand model railway good.! Our friends at the ARHS will also be there, so make sure to pay them a visit!

After the exhibition and to end the event, join us on a heritage bus ride from the venue to Granville Station. Hope to see you all there!

🗓️ Date: Saturday 24th October

📍 Meeting Locations:
- Central Grand Concourse Food Market
- Parramatta Station

🕗 Times:
- 10:15 AM @ Central
- 11:00 AM @ Parramatta

Address

Building G17, University Of New South Wales
Kensington, NSW
2052

Website

https://linksta.cc/@unswrailsoc

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