Narrows Railway Bridge (2005) - 2012 Booklet
During the construction of the second Narrows road bridge a decision was made to build a suburban railway, along the freeway alignment, from Perth to Mandurah and Rockingham. Leighton Contractors won the contract to build the railway crossing at the Narrows site and engaged the design consortium of GHD, Coffey Geosciences and Wyche Consulting to assist. The rail track was supported on nine steel box girders, each 54 metres long and weighing 99.5 tonnes, made in Kwinana by Structural Marine Engineering, and lifted into place by mobile crane. The girders were supported on concrete piers in the six metre gap between the 1959 and 2001 bridges.
The bridge was completed in 2005 and the first trains passed over the Narrows site in December 2007.
Author:
Don Young
