Latest designs released for Inland Rail highway, bridge works

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Inland Rail has released designs and visualisations for upcoming works on two areas of the Hume Freeway, as well as a bridge replacement at Marchbanks Road, in Victoria.

Inland Rail is lowering the tracks under the Hume Freeway at Tallarook and Seymour and replacing the Marchbanks Road bridge to provide sufficient height and width clearances to allow the safe passage of double-stacked freight trains through these sections.

At the Hume Freeway sites, tracks will be lowered by 1.5 metres to 2.1 metres under the bridges and work will be undertaken up to 500 metres to one kilometre either side of the bridge to create the safe gradient and clearance for double-stacked trains.

In Seymour, works will extend up to one kilometre south and 700 metres north of the bridge.

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The new Marchbanks Road bridge will be higher and wider and will replace the existing structure on the same alignment. The new bridge will also feature four-metre-wide traffic lanes and safety screens.

Inland Rail and construction partner John Holland will present the new visualisations and provide more information at several community engagement sessions beginning today.

Ed Walker, Inland Rail Beveridge to Albury Delivery Director said project engineers would be available to answer questions from the community.

“We look forward to presenting the new visualisations and talking to the community over the next month,” Walker said.

To view the designs, click here.

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