Forrestfield-Airport Link completes tunnelling

23 April, 2020

Forrestfield-Airport Link completed (21-Apr-2020) tunnelling on the airport link after 900 days. The tunnels will link three new stations at Forrestfield, Airport Central and Redcliffe to the existing rail network. The tunnel-boring machines installed 9000 tunnel rings comprising 54,000 locally fabricated concrete segments to form the tunnel walls. Installation of the first stage of track slab is 50% complete and track laying is scheduled to begin in Jul-2020, with trains scheduled to run on the new rail line in the 2H2021. [more - original PR]