Construction update Salisbury station

Details of work

The following activities are scheduled to occur between 6:30am and 6:30pm, Monday to Saturday during May 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 stair structures
• Continue installation of structural steel for the station buildings and platform shade canopies
• Continue fit out for the platform 3 shade canopy and commence fit out of canopies for platforms 1 and 2.

Out of hours work

The following activities will occur at Salisbury station and in the rail corridor outside the project’s normal working hours, as outlined below:

Intermittently between 6:30pm and 6:30am during May 2025, the following works will occur:

• Earthworks and installation of services including the use of vacuum trucks and excavators
• 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.

Between 2:00am Saturday 24 and 3:00am Monday 26 May 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 station platforms
• Install structural steel for platforms 1, 2, and 3, and station overpass stairs
• Earthworks and installation of drainage and services

Work areas and pedestrian access at Salisbury station

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.

We appreciate your patience during construction 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 – Salisbury station construction update – May 2025