Construction at Bowen Hills & Albion stations

The following activities are scheduled to occur between 6:30am and 6:30pm, Monday to Saturday during October and November 2019:

• Installing construction signage across the corridor
• Placing temporary fencing, and erosion and sediment controls
• Delivery trucks and workers’ vehicles entering the rail corridor via 33 Lanham Street, Bowen Hills to access Queensland Rail’s stabling facility at Mayne Yard
• Establishing temporary site compounds and worker facilities within Queensland Rail’s Mayne Train Yard
• Removing unnecessary tracks and sleepers
• Surveying and investigating underground services, such as water, electricity and gas
• Removing unnecessary masts (poles that hold up overhead wires), overhead wires and lighting towers
• Minor earthworks.

Out of hours works

In addition to the activities scheduled during normal work hours, the activities outlined below are scheduled to occur at night outside of the project’s normal working hours, weather and construction conditions permitting.

Location 1: Rail corridor between Breakfast Creek rail bridge and Albion station.

• Access to site will be via Grafton Street, Windsor (see map below)
• Work will occur between 2:00am Saturday 5 October and 2:00am Tuesday 8 October
• Types of work include minor track work, disconnecting and removing some sections of tracks, underground rock and soil investigations, and survey within the rail corridor.

Location 2:Queensland Rail’s Mayne Yard.

• Access to site will be via 33 Lanham Street, Bowen Hills (see map below)
• Work will occur between 2:00am Saturday 5 October and 2:00am Tuesday 8 October
• Types of work include disconnecting and removing some sections of tracks, underground rock and soil investigations, and survey within the rail corridor.

What to expect

Construction activities will involve:

• Light vehicles, trucks and machinery including excavators, mobile cranes and truck mounted drill rigs
• Small power tools, drills, rail saws, minor vibrating equipment and mobile lighting towers to light the work areas at night.

During construction, you may notice some minor disruptions such as:

• Increased levels of localised noise and dust from the use of machinery and equipment
• Increased construction vehicle movements on local roads and within the project corridor
• Delivery of plant, materials and equipment to the project corridor.

Workers may arrive onsite one hour prior to the planned start time to prepare for the day’s activities. Every effort will be made to keep disruption to a minimum for nearby residents and businesses. This includes ‘toolbox talks’ with work crews to remind them of out-of-hours work protocols – for example, no shouting or beeping car horns.

We appreciate your patience during the construction period and will continue to update you as work progresses.

If you want to know more, all of this information is available in PDF form:

• Works Notice – Start of construction between Bowen Hills and Albion stations