Work to take down Sydney monorail begins WORK to take down Sydney's monorail is finally about to get underway. Workers will start dismantling the monorail track and support columns at Darling Drive on Monday, a Transport for NSW spokesman says. Most of the work will be done at night between 10pm and 5am. Work to get rid of the stations and concrete support pedestals will mostly be done during the day. Plasma tools will be used to cut through the tracks and cables, which will be loaded onto trucks by cranes and taken away for recycling. There would be "some unavoidable, temporary impacts," a spokesman said. "This is an extremely complex project given that the monorail sits above busy city streets and weaves through buildings," he said in a statement. The bulk of the demolition is expected to be completed by March 2014. Two monorail carriages and 10 metres of track will be preserved in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. The monorail has been described as a "fad" and a "white elephant" by transport minister Gladys Berejiklian.