Hitting new heights in the Shoalhaven

🚋 We’re focused on the future of Melbourne’s iconic tram network – and we’re proud to be involved in all parts of the lifecycle.

Our team on the North Western Program Alliance is delivering the new Tram Maintenance Facility at Maidstone. This purpose-built facility will house Melbourne’s Next Generation trams.

The team is in the final stages of delivery with test trams starting to run at the new site last week. This follows the completion of 5,031m of track and associated overhead wiring installed in the new facility last month.

Once complete, the Tram Maintenance Facility will provide undercover maintenance tracks, stabling roads, an undercover stabling and sanding area, a tram wash and a test track for Melbourne’s Next Generation G Class trams. These new trams will be rolled out onto the Yarra Trams network.

In partnership with Transdev, we have been operating Yarra Trams since December last year. In that time, performance on the network (reliability and punctuality) has been stronger than the same time the previous year 📈.

While the Yarra Trams team has delivered services to some of Melbourne’s major events including the Australian Open 🎾 and the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix 🏎️.

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😮 Hey Pyrmont, look down!

Our Sydney Metro West – Eastern Tunnelling Package team threw open the doors to the Pyrmont West excavation shaft recently, allowing local residents to see the progress we're making on the future Pyrmont Metro Station.

🚧 Visitors to the project site could look down and see our team was about 23 metres into the 33-metre-deep shaft and one third of the way through excavating a total of 312,000 tonnes of material to create the station cavern and crossover cavern.

Local residents were impressed to learn that all material excavated will be reused on other Sydney projects including the M7-M12 Integration Project.

🚇 We're proud to be delivering part of Sydney Metro West, which will double rail capacity between Parramatta and the CBD and transform public transport for generations to come!

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🚇 Our team leading the Rail Network Alliance for Metro Tunnel Project have celebrated a big milestone, with test trains now having travelled more than 100,000km inside the Metro Tunnel.



At the same time, our Metro Trains Melbourne JV has taken over management of the Metro Tunnel Project’s three completed stations – Parkville, Anzac and Arden.



Our Rail Network Alliance team continues with testing, which began in 2023, running trains between stations on the Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines and through the tunnel to gather critical data. The team of experts continue to stress test the new technology to make sure all the equipment and systems are working as designed.



This work brings us one step closer to the opening of Metro Tunnel!

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💡 Did you know?

Women are playing a key part in delivering our $438 million Shoalhaven Hospital Redevelopment, supported by the NSW Government’s Women in Construction (WiC) focused Infrastructure Skills Legacy Program (ISLP).

In total we’ve got:

👷🏽‍♀️ 13 percent of the project's total workforce

👷‍♀️ 10 percent of the trade and construction roles

👷🏽‍♀️ Women employed in roles including Project Director, Electrician, Carpenter, Safety Coordinator, Architect and Engineer.

We're thrilled to be delivering this project for Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) and Health Infrastructure AND exceeding NSW Government targets aimed at increasing the number of women in the construction industry!

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👌🏽Ask R U OK? Any day



That’s the theme of Rail R U OK? 2025 - a collaboration between @ruokanyday and @tracksafefoundation which is being marked today by our Rail and Transport teams across Australia and New Zealand.



We’re all in a position to check in on a workmate and start a conversation…and a conversation could save a life, any day of the year.

Share with us how you will be marking the day in our comments section below.



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🌳 How about this one for a 'circle of life' success story?

At the Advanced Water Recycling Centre (AWRC) in Western Sydney, we’re restoring the eastern banks of Wianamatta-South Creek using native plants grown locally from seeds collected and propagated during the original vegetation removal!


The seeds were gathered by a local indigenous social enterprise, @murumittigar who then grew them at their nearby nursery.

Planting of the seedlings is now underway. This will support the recovery of the critically endangered ecological community of Cumberland Plain Woodland and the expansion of Western Sydney's green spine.

The AWRC Aboriginal Advisory Group has been a key partner in developing the vegetation management plan on site, advising on:


🌳 revegetating with Cumberland Plain Woodland

🌲retention of significant trees

🌱 seed collection and propagation

🪵 re-using tree logs for habitat creation and bank stabilisation, and

🥀 finding a less invasive way to remove weeds and reinstate the creek bank.



Now that's what we call a rewarding ‘full circle’ moment!

@sydneywater @dirty.planting @greenconnect_ @glascott_landscape

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🏗️ Sheds Away!

If you think there's something missing at Melbourne's Federation Square you're correct!

The acoustic shed on the corner of Flinders Street and St Kilda Road has been dismantled as our @metrotunnelvic project reaches another milestone.

🚉This site will be the future home of a Town Hall Station entrance, connecting Federation Square directly to the Metro Tunnel.

The shed has been in residence since 2019, while the acoustic shed installed in A'Beckett Street at State Library Station in 2017 is also being dismantled.

🚇 Our teams are taking down the shed structures including the surrounding ventilation frames and ducting, roofs, structural steel, and the temporary lifts - leaving it easier to see how the new Metro 'Tunnel' Stations will start to take shape.

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