VIC Level Crossing Removal

The Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP) was established by the Victorian Government to oversee one of the largest rail infrastructure projects in the state’s history.

Central to the project is the elimination of 110 level crossings across metropolitan Melbourne, in addition to other rail network upgrades such as new train stations, track duplications and train stabling yards.

Some of the core benefits that come from removing a level crossing are:

• improving safety, by removing the danger of trains sharing a crossing with vehicles and other users
• reducing congestion, by eliminating frustrating delays caused by boom gates and allowing more vehicles to pass through
• improving travel time reliability, by removing uncertainty around when boom gate closures will occur and how long they will be down for
• increasing capacity to run more trains on the network, without boom gates delaying vehicles and other users.

RSCG has been involved in design and testing and commissioning works for the Southern Program Alliance (SPA), Western Program Alliance (WPA), and the North West Program Alliance (NWPA)

Works for SPA

• Together with UGL, RCSG provided testing and commissioning services for the Hurstbridge Line Upgrade Inner Area Works, modifying and upgrading the existing Clifton Hill and Victoria Park SSI installations.
• Alongside UGL and as part of the Union & Mont Albert Road Level Crossing Removal (UMA), RCSG provided SSI design and testing capabilities to modify the existing SSI interface at Camberwell station.
• RCSG also supplied testing and commissioning expertise for the removal of Ferguson Street level crossing.

Works for WPA

• RCSG delivered the signalling design, and testing and commissioning support for Old Geelong Road and Cherry Street level crossing removals.
• RCSG delivered testing and commissioning support for Ferguson St level crossing removal.
• RSCG provided senior signalling expertise to resolve technical challenges on the Werribee level crossing removal.

Works for NWPA

• For the Bell to Moreland Level Crossing Removal Project, level crossings at Bell Street, Munro Street and Reynard Street in Coburg and Moreland Road in Brunswick were removed by building a 2.5km section of elevated rail, with 2 new stations at Coburg and Moreland.
• RSCG was contracted for the signalling design and testing and commissioning scope.
• RCSG also supported NWPA with signalling design services for the Buckley St level crossing removal.