The Commonwealth and Victorian Governments have announced a $570 million construction contract for the Regional Rail Link.

 

The $570 million contract was awarded to a consortium consisting of: John Holland, Abigroup, Coleman Rail, AECOM & GHD, who will partner with MTM, V/Line and the Regional Rail Link Authority to deliver the works between the City and the Maribyrnong River.

 

The scope of works includes:

  • Construction of a new 1 kilometre rail overpass over the Maribyrnong River area;
  • A rail-over-rail flyover between the Maribyrnong River and Hopkins Street Footscray;
  • 4.5 kilometres of new tracks to separate metropolitan and regional trains within Melbourne's busiest rail junction;
  • Extensive track reconfiguration and major upgrades to the existing North Melbourne rail-over-rail flyover which will be used to access platforms 1-8 at Southern Cross Station;
  • Major bridge modifications at Dynon Road, Moonee Ponds Creek, Lloyd Street and Dudley Street; and
  • A new twin track rail bridge over Dudley Street in West Melbourne.

 

This is the second last contract to be awarded for the multi-billion dollar project and covers the track works between the City (Southern Cross Station) and the Maribyrnong River including a new 1 kilometre rail overpass over the Maribyrnong River which will facilitate the movement of regional trains between the inner west and Southern Cross Station.

 

When complete in 2016, the Regional Rail Link will remove major bottlenecks from Victoria’s public transport system by separating regional and metropolitan trains.

 

The announcement follows the three contracts awarded in December last year for signalling and design and construction works between Footscray and Werribee.

 

The Regional Rail Link project is being built with $3.2 billion in funding from the Australian Government and the Victorian Government contributing the balance.

 

Delivery of the Regional Rail Link project involves a total of six major packages of work, with the only remaining contract at West Werribee Junction to be awarded in the middle of 2012.