Visitors at the recent AusRAIL PLUS Conference couldn’t help but notice the range of lubrication systems displayed at the stand jointly manned by SKF and JSG. Read more
Mega tunnel boring machines for mega rail loop
Expressions of Interest have opened for the longest tunnelling package in Victoria’s history – delivering around 16 kilometres of twin tunnels between Cheltenham and Glen Waverley. A second package will see the tunnels constructed from Glen Waverley to Box Hill, completing the SRL East rail corridor. Read more
Christmas celebration below Auckland
Fifteen metres under a busy central Auckland street, workers last week removed the final pieces of a concrete wall and began connecting the new Aotea Station to tunnels running from Britomart for the transformational City Rail Link project. Read more
Else breaks through for Cross River Rail
The first of Queensland’s Cross River Rail’s Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) has seen the daylight, for the first time in 10 months. Read more
Karangahape welcomes Dame Whina Cooper
Auckland’s City Rail Link (CRL) tunnel boring machine (TBM), Dame Whina Cooper, has broken through into the Karangahape Station construction site at the end of its 860 metre-long journey from Mt Eden. Read more
Cross River Rail breaks through at Roma Street
TBM Else, the first of Cross River Rail’s two massive Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs), has broken through a rock wall into the huge underground cavern beneath Roma Street in Brisbane, marking the biggest milestone yet for this transformational project. Read more
The earth moves for Lakelands
The first sod has been turned at METRONET’s Lakelands Station project site in Perth, with early works now in progress on the Mandurah Line’s newest station. Read more
COVID slows down tunnel boring
Current COVID restrictions across New Zealand have slowed down tunnel boring machine (TBM) operations in Auckland. Read more
Inland Rail upgrade continues despite COVID
Construction continues along the Narrabri to North Star (N2NS) section of the Inland Rail alignment in NSW, despite the statewide lockdown recently imposed to arrest a major surge in COVID cases. Read more
Swift response to track damage report
KiwiRail and Auckland Transport have moved quickly to address issues raised by a report into track damage caused by rolling contact fatigue (RCF), which led to widespread speed restrictions across the Auckland rail network. Read more