Clapham Yard construction update - August and September 2025
In June and July 2025, UNITY Alliance completed a major milestone at Clapham Yard, including shifting dual gauge rail traffic to the western side of the yard, removing the existing Moolabin Creek rail bridge and connecting rail over the new bridge, constructing retaining walls, and carrying out signalling, fencing, and overhead electrical works.
Works will continue through August and September 2025, with ongoing earthworks, drainage, track installation, structural steel installation for the Clapham Yard maintenance facility, and further signalling and overhead electrical activities.
Details of work
The following activities are scheduled to occur between 6:30am and 6:30pm, Monday to Saturday in August and September 2025, weather and construction conditions permitting:
- Continue earthworks and retaining wall construction
- Continue installation of drainage, service conduits and pits for electrical, communications and cable routes
- Continue track construction including placement of ballast, grading and compaction, sleeper and rail installation, tamping and rail grinding
- Continue overhead electrical line footing and mast installations
- Tree removal within the Clapham Yard site compound (refer to map below)
- Continue rail corridor and boundary fence installation, including intermittent single lane closures on Fairfield Road outbound (refer to map below).
Work activities at Clapham Yard and along Fairfield Road, Yeerongpilly, that are scheduled during planned track possessions (when trains are not operating) or outside the project’s standard working hours are outlined below, weather and construction conditions permitting
Between 6:30pm and 6:30am intermittently in August and September 2025, the following works will occur:
- Public utility investigations for water and sewer services
- Delivery of equipment and materials to site including concrete, gravels and building supplies.
Between 2:00am Saturday 23 and 2:00am Monday 25 August 2025, and between 2:00am Saturday 30 August to 10:00pm Sunday 31 August 2025, the following works will occur:
- Earthworks and drainage
- Sheet piling near Moolabin Creek
- Installation of foundations and masts for overhead electrical lines and removal of old structures
- Finishing works on the Muriel Avenue rail bridge, involving lane closures on Muriel Avenue
- Signalling testing and commissioning
Between 2:00am Saturday 20 September and 10:00pm Sunday 12 October 2025, the following works will occur:
- Cable service route installation, including excavation, drainage, and under track crossings for water and electrical services
- Piling for rail ground foundation works
- Signal testing and commissioning
- Installation of foundations and masts for overhead electrical lines and removal of old structures
- Signalling testing and commissioning.
We appreciate your patience during construction and will continue to update you as work progresses.
Construction work areas and traffic changes
What to Expect
During these works you may notice some intermittent disruptions such as:
- Intermittent single lane closure on Fairfield Road (outbound)
- Intermittent lane closures on Muriel Avenue with Queensland Police and traffic control to assist. Please allow extra travel time
- Light vehicles, trucks and machinery including excavators with rock breakers and jackhammers, graders, rollers, water carts, front end loaders, mobile cranes, piling rigs, drilling rigs, vacuum excavation trucks, small power tools, drills, saws, minor vibrating equipment and mobile lighting towers to light the work areas at night
- Changes around your local area such as construction vehicles, traffic management signs and personnel
- Some noise, vibration and dust associated with the use of heavy machinery and equipment.