Cross River Rail is boosting the Queensland Economy by $4.1 million per day, supporting a workforce of over 2,400 and providing work for more than 400 suppliers and subcontractor companies, 90% of which are Queensland companies.  

Two massive TBMs will be delivered to Woolloongabba worksite at the end of this year and will commence tunneling in January next year.  

At Roma Street, the Brisbane Transit Centre towers and Hotel Jen tower demolition is over 70% complete. Two roadheaders are also now operating under the Roma Street site and more than 80 m of tunnel has already been excavated.  

At Woolloongabba another two roadheaders are tunnelling in two different directions from a station cavern that is already 20 m deep and preparations is being made for arrival later this year of the TBMs.  One machine is heading north beneath Vulture Street and the other tunnelling towards the south beneath the South East Busway. The roadheaders are tunnelling roughly 1.5 m a day and with both these machines at work, over 55 m of tunnel has already been excavated. 

A large spoil shed is also being constructed and two large worksheds have been erected in the centre of the site, alongside an access ramp that has been constructed to get heavy machinery to and from the station cavern floor.  

At the Albert Street station site, construction of a massive acoustic shed is now complete and a roadheader has arrived, which once assembled and tested will begin work in a tunnel shaft that is now complete at 31 m below ground. Excavation of the station box has also commenced on Lot 1 at Albert Street and Albert Street between Charlotte and Elizabeth Streets has been closed to through traffic as work commences also on the station’s northern entrance.  

At the Boggo Road station site, piling works are complete and work continues with excavation of the station box.  

To the south of Boggo Road, construction has commenced at Fairfield station, which is the first of six southside stations between Fairfield and Salisbury being given a significant upgrade as part of Cross River Rail. 

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