Mandurah line
Template:Future public transportation Template:Transperth railway lines Mandurah Line is a suburban railway line currently under construction in Perth, Australia. It will run through Perth's southern suburbs and connect Perth and Mandurah. The line is proposed to be completed by 2007. [1]
History
Legislation for the construction of the Mandurah Line was passed in December 1999. [2] The original proposed route branched from the Armadale Line at Kenwick, and then ran along side the freight lines until Jandakot where it would run in the middle of the Kwinana Freeway. However, a bill passed in November 2002 after a change of state government saw that the route would start at Perth, traverse the Kwinana Freeway, and then continue along its initial route after Jandakot. [3] This second route was much more direct, and allowed through services with the Joondalup Line. However, the second direct route was more costly than the original indirect route.
Construction of the line started in February 2004. The underground tunnels were bored using a Tunnel Boring Machine manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries [4]. The completion of the first tunnel was completed on 3 June 2006[5], and the second tunnel was completed on 27 October 2006.[6].
The railway line is proposed to be open by July 2007.
Train Stations
- Red denotes city stations.
- Orange denotes Mandurah line stations.
- Black denotes terminuses.
| Name of Station | Code | Zone | Serving Suburbs | Pattern stops at this station | Connections | |
| Mandurah Line | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perth | MPH | 1, FTZ | Perth, Northbridge | All | C | Through to Joondalup Line Platform transfer to Armadale / Thornlie Line, Fremantle Line and Midland Line Transwa Australind service to Bunbury Bus transfers at Wellington Street Bus Station |
| Esplanade | 1, FTZ | Perth | ALL | C | Bus transfers | |
| Canning Bridge | 1,2 | Applecross, Como | ALL | C | Bus transfers | |
| Bull Creek | 2 | Bateman, Brentwood, Bull Creek | ALL | C | Bus transfers | |
| Murdoch | 2 | Bateman, Bull Creek, Murdoch | ALL | C | Bus transfers, CircleRoute | |
| Cockburn Central | 3 | Jandakot, Success | All | C | Bus transfers | |
| Kwinana | 5 | Bertram, Orelia, Parmelia | All | Bus transfers | ||
| Wellard | 5 | Leda, Wellard | All | Bus transfers | ||
| Rockingham | 5, 6 | Cooloongup, Hillman, Rockingham | All | Bus transfers | ||
| Warnbro | 6 | Warnbro, Waikiki | All | |||
| Mandurah | 8 | Greenfields, Mandurah | Terminus | Bus transfers | ||