Ms Edmonds said newspaper reports from the time indicated a level of complacency in the general population about the need to practise for potential air raids.Ī Sydney Morning Herald article from September 1942 said large numbers of people ignored a daylight siren as they walked through the city streets. Messages written by soldiers in the tunnel walls during the war are still visible today.Īt the end of the war, some of the blast curtains were removed, others were partly dismantled and others were left untouched. The shelters were capable of holding 20,000 people and were used by the RAAF as headquarters. The Australian Railway Historical Society said the tunnels were converted into bomb shelters, with concrete blast curtains installed at intervals.
At St James, two single-line tunnels were built below Hyde Park in the 1920s for proposed train lines to Bondi and Randwick.
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