Merrimac station construction update

Throughout November & December 2025, from 7:00am to 5:00pm (Monday to Saturday) works will include:

Eastern and western rail reserves

• Retaining wall construction, including concrete pours, back-filling and sealing activities
• Drainage works including earthworks, excavation, batter reshaping, open channel construction and landscaping
• Station surface and access road construction, including road pavement and surface activities
• Construction of environmental management controls including culvert installations, concrete works and pipe installations
• Works on public utilities and services, including conduit trenching, excavation and installation
• Ongoing earthworks activities, including stockpiling of materials, excavation and heavy vehicle movements and pre-loading
• Sewer activities including intermittent dewatering works using electric pumps, including out of hours activity where required
• Minor vegetation clearing in accordance with all relevant approvals, with fauna spotter / catchers in attendance.

Above: station platform, lift shafts and pedestrian overpass support structures taking shape
 

Station building, platforms and rail corridor activities

• Station building works, including block work, excavation, concreting and steel works, plumbing and electrical activities, including concrete pouring during out of hours where required
• Lift shaft and service works, including concrete pours, steel and pre-cast panel installations, backfilling, waterproofing and glazing works
• Kerb Station platform works, including ongoing concreting and steel installations, platform canopy roofing works and pedestrian overpass activities
• Installation of on-track and trackside signalling equipment.

Rail corridor works, including night works, are planned to occur outside normal working hours during scheduled track closures (construction and weather permitting). Rail corridor activities (listed above) will be completed during day and night shifts (24 hours) on the following dates:

Works areas and vehicle movements

Gooding Drive / Station Access roadworks

Roadworks will continue on Gooding Drive in both directions into 2026 (program and weather permitting), including intermittent night works along Gooding Drive from early November 2025 to mid-December 2025.

These activities can only be undertaken at night due to safety, traffic management and program requirements. Residents located near these activities will receive direct reminders prior to works.

Gooding Drive activities will include:

• Ongoing retaining wall construction, concreting and backfilling
• Activities on utilities and services, including drainage, water main, sewer and lighting
• Kerb, verge and footpath works, including demolition activities, saw cutting and heavy vehicle movements, followed by pram ramp and footpath construction
• Pit excavation, trenching and concrete pouring
• Road barrier and guard rail movement and installations
• Access road construction, including earthworks, pavement activities and material deliveries
• Temporary changes to pedestrian access and movement (see above)
• Minor vegetation clearing in accordance with all relevant approvals, with fauna spotter / catchers in attendance
• Temporary removal of part of Gooding Drive noise barrier (eastbound).

More information on Gooding Drive Roadworks can be found here.

For the works above, standard construction hours are when works will be undertaken between 7:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Saturday, and 8:00am to 1:00pm Sunday (where required). Some night works will be required where out of hours activities will be undertaken from 7:00am to 6:00am, Monday to Sunday.

Traffic and pedestrian changes

• Intermittent delays, detours and changes to pedestrian access and movements around Gooding Drive northern footpath and Ghilgai Road, with traffic management in place
• Intermittent daily single-lane closures, speed reductions and short-term delays on Gooding Drive in both directions, between Ghilgai Road and Bourton Road
• Lane width reductions and alignment changes on Gooding Drive
• Workers and vehicles accessing the site via Gooding Drive, Entry Drive, Crelga Court, Nisbet Place and Willunga Place
• Intermittent parking restrictions and short-term changes to haulage routes
• Traffic management and road signage will assist and direct motorists, pedestrians and cyclists.

What to expect

• Construction activities may generate increased levels of heavy vehicles, noise, vibration and dust in the area. Every effort will be made to keep these to a minimum
• An increase in worker and construction presence on Gooding Drive, including intermittent noise at night
• Construction activity and heavy vehicle movements will continue to transport materials to the site via Gooding Drive (both directions), and Entry Drive and Crelga Court as required
• Intermittent use of mobile lighting towers and safety lighting within the rail reserve and Gooding Drive (both directions). Every effort will be made to position light sources away from properties
• The use of machinery including trucks, earth moving, piling and concrete machinery, cranes and boom lifts, asphalt plant and rollers, chainsaws, vibration hammers cable hauling equipment and hand held tools.

Changes to the way you travel

Construction of new stations, including Merrimac, on the Gold Coast line can mean changes to your travel. We encourage you to consider your travel options plan ahead and allow extra travel time by:

• Download the MyTranslink app
• Visit the Translink website; or
• Call 13 12 30

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

• Works Notice – Merrimac station construction update – November 2025