Crews worked to complete the second stage of construction on the new Calder Park Drive road bridge in Melbourne’s northwest.
Over a span of two nights, workers lifted and installed nine concrete beams on the southern side of the rail line. Each beam, built locally in Melton, measures 40 metres long, two metres high, and weighs about 90 tonnes.
The beams connect the southern end of the bridge and follows a similar lift in November 2024 on the northern section of the bridge. The final beam lift to join both sides is expected to happen later in 2025.
Crews are still working on the bridge’s shared path for pedestrians and cyclists. Landscaping is also in progress, with more than 100,000 plants, trees, and grasses – mostly native and indigenous – being planted around Calder Park Drive and nearby Holden Road.
As part of the broader upgrade, the level crossing at Holden Road will permanently close, and the boom gates at both Calder Park Drive and Holden Road will be removed by the end of the year. These works are part of efforts to make the Sunbury Line completely level crossing-free by 2025.
This project ties into wider improvements to Melbourne’s rail network. When the Metro Tunnel opens later this year, creating a new end-to-end line from Sunbury to Cranbourne/Paknham in the south-east, Sunbury Line passengers will gain access to five new underground stations in central Melbourne.