Salisbury station construction update - February 2025

UNITY Alliance would like to thank you for your continued patience while a significant amount of work was undertaken within the rail corridor during December 2024 and January 2025. During this period, the team demolished the old station, installed platform services, completed piling for the new station, and installed structural steel for lift shafts and pedestrian overpass.

In February 2025, construction will continue with the installation of drainage, services (e.g., electrical, water), structural steel, and footings including earthworks and concreting.


Details of Work

The following activities are scheduled to occur between 6:30am and 6:30pm, Monday to Saturday during February 2025, weather and construction conditions permitting:

  • Continue installation of platform inground services and drainage including excavation, steel fixing, and concreting
  • Continue installation of structural steel for station lifts and pedestrian overpass structures
  • Continue installation of structural steel for the platform 3 shade canopy

Out of Hours Work

The following activities will occur outside the project’s normal working hours, as outlined below:

At Salisbury station and in the rail corridor, and intermittently between 6:30pm and 6:30am during February 2025, the following works will occur:

  • Earthworks and installation of services including the use of vacuum trucks and excavators with jackhammers
  • Formwork and concrete works for the new station platform, including excavation for footings and slab foundations
  • Installation of structural steel and roofing install for canopies.

At Salisbury station and in the rail corridor, and between 2:00am Saturday 22 and 3:00am Monday 24 February 2025, the following works will occur:

  • Cable service relocation works and under track crossings for services (e.g., electrical, water) including trenching
  • Formwork and concrete works for the new station platform, including excavation for footings and slab foundations
  • Install structural steel for platform 1, 2, and 3
  • Earthworks and installation of drainage and services
  • Signal testing and commissioning works.

 

Work areas and pedestrian access at Salisbury station

Map showing work areas, temporary traffic changes on Fairlie Terrace and Dollis Street, Salisbury.

 

What to Expect

During these works you may notice some intermittent disruptions such as:

  • Intermittent single lane closures on Fairlie Terrace, Lillian Avenue, and Dollis Street to enable construction vehicles to access the rail corridor. Traffic control and signage will be in place to direct motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists around work areas
  • Light vehicles, trucks, and machinery including excavators with jackhammer and rock breaker, bobcat, vacuum trucks, trucks, concrete pump trucks, mobile cranes, small power tools, drills, saws, minor vibrating equipment, and mobile lighting towers to light work areas at night and generator to power site offices (day and night)
  • Changes around your local area such as construction vehicles, traffic management signs, and personnel
  • Increased levels of noise, vibration, and dust associated with the use of heavy machinery and equipment

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