Delivering complex operational change across multiple boundaries
A major part of the works on Regional Rail Link – City to Maribyrnong River (CMR) work package was the reconfiguring of the approaches to Southern Cross Station to allow services from the new RRL lines to come across the refurbished North Melbourne flyover over the suburban lines into platforms 1-8 of Southern Cross Station. This included substantial reconfiguring of the track layout and replacement of the signalling and train control systems for the regional lines and adjustments to the existing signalling and train control for the suburban network. The work took place in two major stages and crossed the boundaries between three Rail Infrastructure Managers – Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM), V/Line and ARTC, their respective train control centres at Metrol, Centrol & No 1 Box and Mile End and across nine different interlockings ranging from new CBI to free wired and geographic relay interlockings. An earlier CMR commissioning across the MTM and V/Line boundary at South Kensington was a technical success but train delays occurred due to train controller unfamiliarity with the new cross-boundary movements. This paper highlights some of the key learnings picked up over the life of the CMR project and how they were implemented in planning and delivering the complex Southern Cross approach works.
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Authors:
- Morris A
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- Publication Date: 2016
Media Info
- Pagination: 8p. ; PDF
- Monograph Title: Maintaining the momentum: CORE 2016: conference on railway excellence, 16-18 May 2016, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Evaluation; Project management; Railroad rails; Signals
- ATRI Terms: Project evaluation; Railway track; Signal
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Railroads;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01636905
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: May 30 2017 3:31PM