Thornlie Cockburn Link Rail Blockade

Client

NEWest

Location

Perth, Western Australia

Category

Civil – Rail

Completed

January 2022

Scope of Works

The Mandurah rail line was blockaded (closed) between Glen Iris and Cockburn to reconstruct the Mandurah line tracks on a new alignment to make space for the future construction of the new Thornlie-Cockburn Link. This was the longest ever blockade of a PTA line and affected the busiest section of the network.

Halo provided innovative solutions that inclded laying the ballast using a ballast box and walking floor trailers which greatly increased the efficiency of the ballast laying operation while reducing ballast waste.

Halo’s scope of works included:

About the Project

The Thornlie-Cockburn Link will be Perth’s first east-west cross line connection, providing a higher level of public transport service to Perth’s south-eastern suburbs.

The works were successfully completed, and the line was handed back to passenger service on schedule at full line speed (130 km/h) and without operational restriction, the first time this has happened after a major blockade on the PTA network.