Thornlie Cockburn Link

Client

NEWest

Location

Perth, Western Australia

Category

Civil Infrastructure

Duration

Ongoing

Scope of Works

Following the successful delivery of the Thornlie Cockburn Link Christmas Blockade, NEWest engaged Halo Civil Engineering to conduct miscellaneous civils on the project. Halo’s scope of works included bulk and detailed earthworks, drainage, pavement works, rail embarkment and utilities.

Halo provided the following resources:

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.

For 20 days between 26 December 2021 and 14 January 2022 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.

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.