Laing O’Rourke has been awarded a contract to deliver the Cranbrook Rail Outloading Project in Western Australia.
The project is one of 11 rail siding projects at CBH Group sites, funded in partnership with the Western Australian and Federal governments under the Agricultural Supply Chain Improvements Program.
Construction is scheduled to begin in April with a multidisciplinary scope involving rail, earthworks, drainage, structures, mechanical and electrical works. Laing O’Rourke will construct a new rail siding alongside construction of a complex new grain handling facility.
At Cranbrook, the existing rail siding will be more than doubled, extended from 995 metres to 2000 metres in length, as well as the realignment of 395 metres of the existing rail siding. The rail siding extension will be complemented with a new 6600 tonne fixed rail loading facility.
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Laing O’Rourke’s Rail operations business will deliver the works. This side of the business has capabilities in all rail and civil construction disciplines.
Sam Gliddon, Chief Project Delivery Officer, CBH Group said the works were part of a wider package of projects that aim to increase the efficiency of grain movement across the region.
“It currently takes more than seven hours to load 60 wagons at Cranbrook, which includes multiple shunts that disrupt the mainline and impact level crossings. Once complete, a 60-wagon train will be able to be loaded in around four hours at Cranbrook– free of level crossings and without disrupting the mainline,” Gliddon said.