CROSS RIVER RAIL | PROJECT


CROSS RIVER RAIL TO TACKLE BRISBANE’S URBAN GROWTH


Australia’s cities are engaged in some major underground rail projects. Sydney and Melbourne both have their metro schemes. Brisbane is host to another – and also to the Olympic Games. Julian Champkin reports


Below:


A female tunnel engineer makes her way along the Albert Street cavern


With the delayed and somewhat-muted Japan 2020 Olympics and Paralympics only having concluded in August and September 2021 respectively, it might seem a little early to be thinking about the 2032 games. But their venue, Brisbane, Australia, was


announced on 21 July 2021; and when on 6 August TBM Else, followed shortly by her TBM sister Merle, excavating for Brisbane’s Cross River Rail project broke through into the cavern of what will be the new Roma Street station in the central business


November 2021


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