Attendees had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel 30 metres below the streets of Brisbane and see firsthand how construction of Brisbane’s new underground station at Roma Street was progressing.
Cross River Rail is a second rail path through the core of the rail network that will unlock a bottleneck and enable increased frequency of trains across the whole of South East Queensland.
Roma Street is one of four new underground stations being built as part of the project and, once complete, the new station will integrate with existing suburban bus and rail networks as well as regional and interstate bus and train services, making Roma Street Station Queensland’s largest and most significant transport interchange.
This was an incredibly rare opportunity to see the underground station during the construction stage, with the tour also including a trip beneath the station’s giant entrance canopy and a chance to view the elevators, platform screen doors, and architectural finishes already installed.
The limited tour was led by some of Cross River Rail’s senior engineers tasked with delivering the station, along with representatives from Hassell, the architecture firm that designed the station.
Participants met at the Cross River Rail Experience Centre where they were provided with a full set of personal protective equipment (PPE), received a safety briefing and viewed a short presentation on the project, before walking to site and descending 27 metres underground to see the station’s 220-metre-long platform.
Thank you to everyone who entered the Cross River Rail ballot. The ballot has now closed. The winners were drawn at random and advised by 5pm on Friday 11 July. If you did not hear from us, unfortunately your ballot entry was unsuccessful. No further correspondence was entered into.