Arc Infrastructure teams have been working across multiple lines within the Goldfields-Esperance region during June, carrying out a variety of upgrade works, including sleeper and rail replacements and culvert installs.
Numerous Arc teams have been working across the Leonora Branch Line, Eastern Goldfields Railway and Esperance Branch Line over the past weeks, with some of the worksites operational until mid-July.
Arc’s Mobile Maintenance Team (MMT) have undertaken the team’s most logistically challenging project on the Leonora Branch Line (LBL) due to the sheer number of worksites spread over a 200-kilometre section between Kalgoorlie and Melita.
Across 16 worksites, the MMT have been replacing more than 2200 sleepers along the LBL, including a mix of steel and full-depth concrete sleepers and rerailing.
Over on the Eastern Goldfields Railway (EGR), the MMT have also started replacing more than 3700 concrete sleepers with new full depth concrete sleepers across nine worksites over a 21-kilometre stretch of the line. In addition, more than 3000 tonne of ballast will be topped up at sleeper replacement sites.
Earlier in June, Arc’s Goldfields track teams utilised a 4-day shut at the Port of Esperance to continue resleepering and rerailing works on the Esperance Branch Line (EBL) within the Port.
These works were a continuation from turnout replacements and track upgrades undertaken in March. The Goldfields Track team removed old sleepers, installed more than 550 new low profile concrete sleepers and topped up ballast to upgrade over 350 metres of track.
Further north on the EBL, four culvert installations were completed from Grass Patch to Bromus.
Head of Maintenance Delivery Tim Linton acknowledged the vast scope of work which had been undertaken across more than 25 worksites along the three lines.
“In particular, with the EGR and LBL works occurring outside a shutdown, our MMT teams managed to work efficiently and safely and with minimal disruption to our customers on those lines,” Tim said.
“This large package of maintenance works across the Goldfields-Esperance region has been a collaborative effort between all the teams involved and has enabled the huge volume of work to be done to an incredibly high standard.”
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