The Sandgate Flyover is a

grade-separated In civil engineering (more specifically highway engineering), grade separation is a method of aligning a junction of two or more surface transport axes at different heights (grades) so that they will not disrupt the traffic flow on other tran ...

railway flyover that carries the Main North line across the

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Island line, located in Sandgate, in the

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local government area of

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, Australia.

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Situated to the west of the

Sandgate station Sandgate may refer to: ;In Australia *Sandgate, Randwick, a heritage-listed house in Randwick, New South Wales *Sandgate, New South Wales, Australia *Sandgate, Queensland, Australia **Electoral district of Sandgate, Queensland, Australia **Sandgate ...

, the overpass was built in 2006 by the

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to allow coal trains to access the Port of

without conflicting with services on the Main North line. The previous

at-grade At-grade may refer to: * At-grade intersection, a crossing between roads on the same level * Road junction *Level crossing, where a road or path crosses a railway on the same level * Diamond crossing, where two railway tracks cross * At-grade railwa ...

junction required that approximately 120

coal train Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons (International Union of Railways) hauled ...

s per day had to cross from the coal lines over the main lines to reach the branch line to the port. The main lines also carried about 120 trains per day. At the time of its construction, it was estimated that the project, once completed, would increase bulk coal handling capacity of between per annum. At the time of the construction of the flyover, the main lines were raised over the junction of the coal lines to the Kooragang branch, so that the conflict between trains was eliminated. The junction improved line speeds with the points replaced by ones that allowed trains to operate at . The flyover opened on 14 November 2006. Adjacent to the flyover lies a

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used by

Crawfords Freightlines Crawfords Freightlines is a freight transportation company based in Sandgate, New South Wales. Road services Crawfords Freightlines operates 100 trucks out of Singleton, Oberon, Goulburn, Werris Creek and Sandgate New South Wales, and Graceme ...

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