{"id":156661,"date":"2024-12-11T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/?p=118171"},"modified":"2024-12-11T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:45:13","slug":"vision-for-freight-corridor-becoming-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=156661","title":{"rendered":"Vision for freight corridor becoming a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/rail-works3.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\"><figcaption>Image\/Metronet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The vision of the former freight corridor accommodating both freight and passenger services is becoming a reality in Jandakot, Canning Vale and Thornlie.<\/strong><span id=\"more-118171\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Around 22 kilometres of passenger track is now in place and is being adjusted around the clock to prepare for test trains in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>This, in addition to the duplicated track between Thornlie and Beckenham and the track along the corridor within the Kwinana Freeway, forms the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/freight-rail-relocated-on-thornlie-cockburn-link\/\">Thornlie-Cockburn<\/a> Link. Altogether, around 35 kilometres of new passenger rail has been built for the project.<\/p>\n<p>The Thornlie-Cockburn Link will be Perth\u2019s first east-west cross line connection, making travel more flexible while providing a higher level of public transport service to Perth\u2019s south-eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting the Mandurah and Armadale-Thornlie lines will open new opportunities for longer-term developments around the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metronet.wa.gov.au\/projects\/thornlie-cockburn-link\/stations#nicholson-road-station\"  rel=\"noopener\">Nicholson Road<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metronet.wa.gov.au\/projects\/thornlie-cockburn-link\/stations#ranford-road-station\"  rel=\"noopener\">Ranford Road<\/a>\u00a0stations.<\/p>\n<p>The Thornlie-Cockburn Link will support growth and accessibility across the south-eastern suburbs by providing direct access to employment and recreation opportunities while supporting about 1,680 jobs through the new stations and upgrades to the existing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metronet.wa.gov.au\/projects\/thornlie-cockburn-link\/stations#thornlie-station\"  rel=\"noopener\">Thornlie<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metronet.wa.gov.au\/projects\/thornlie-cockburn-link\/stations#cockburn-central-station\"  rel=\"noopener\">Cockburn Central<\/a>\u00a0and Stadium stations.<\/p>\n<p>The Armadale\/Thornlie Line is shut between Victoria Park and Armadale\/Thornlie stations until mid-2025 to enable these works.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/vision-for-freight-corridor-becoming-a-reality\/\">Vision for freight corridor becoming a reality<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/rail-works3.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Image\/Metronet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The vision of the former freight corridor accommodating both freight and passenger services is becoming a reality in Jandakot, Canning \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/vision-for-freight-corridor-becoming-a-reality\/\">Vision for freight corridor becoming a reality<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,906],"tags":[10376,4553],"class_list":["post-156661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-state","tag-rail-express","tag-western-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156662,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156661\/revisions\/156662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}