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Morley–Ellenbrook Railway Line
The Ellenbrook line, known as the Morley–Ellenbrook line during construction, is a suburban railway line in Perth, Western Australia, which is operated by the Public Transport Authority as part of the Transperth system. The line branches from the Midland line at Bayswater station and heads north-north-west to serve five stations along a route to Ellenbrook. Ellenbrook line services continue west of Bayswater station alongside Midland and Airport line services to terminate at Perth station in the central business district. Land for a transit line to Ellenbrook was reserved in the 1990s during the first stages of the development of Ellenbrook as a "master planned community". A railway line to Ellenbrook was promised by both major political parties in the leadup to the 2008 state election, but it was cancelled by the newly-elected Liberal government after the election. After the Labor Party won the 2017 state election, the Ellenbrook line began planning as part of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway is an north–south highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth Airport and Kewdale, Western Australia, Kewdale with the city's north-eastern and south-eastern suburbs. As of April 2020, the northern terminus is at the interchange with Brand Highway and Great Northern Highway in Muchea, Western Australia, Muchea, and the southern terminus is at Thomas Road in Oakford, Western Australia, Oakford. It forms the entire length of List of road routes in Perth, Western Australia#4, State Route 4, and connects to several major roads. Besides Brand Highway and Great Northern Highway, it also connects to Reid Highway, Great Eastern Highway, Leach Highway, Roe Highway, and Albany Highway. Planning for the route began in the 1950s, but the first segment between Wattle Grove, Western Australia, Wattle Grove and Cloverdale, Western Australia, Cloverdale was not opened until 1980. Over the next five years, the highway was extended north to Great East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayswater Railway Station, Perth
Bayswater railway station is a suburban rail station in Bayswater, Western Australia, Bayswater, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is the junction station for Transperth's Midland line, Perth, Midland, Airport line, Perth, Airport, and Ellenbrook line, Ellenbrook lines. The station first opened in 1896 on the Eastern Railway (Western Australia), Perth to Midland railway with two side platforms and an adjacent goods yard. It served as the junction station for the Belmont railway line, Western Australia, Belmont spur line between 1896 and 1956. Bayswater station was rebuilt as an island platform just to the north in the late 1960s when the Midland line was converted from narrow gauge to dual gauge; the standard gauge trains were unable to fit between the side platforms. Around that time, the goods yard closed. A second rebuild of Bayswater station began in January 2021 in order to increase the number of platforms to four to accommodate the under-construction Airport and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noranda Railway Station
Noranda railway station is a suburban rail station that is part of the Transperth network. It opened in 2024 as a station on the Ellenbrook line, serving the Perth suburbs of Beechboro, Kiara and Noranda. It is in the median of Tonkin Highway, just north of Benara Road. History In August 2019, the location of the station was revealed. In November 2019, Metronet did a community survey to decide where to put the station car park. The three options were south-west, north-west or north-east of Benara Road and Tonkin Highway. In the end, the north-east option was the most preferred option, with 66% of respondents preferring that option. The reasons included that it does not require a signalised intersection unlike the other options, and it had the largest amount of car bays of the three options. In September 2020, Laing O'Rourke was announced as the preferred proponent for the construction of the Ellenbrook railway line. The station and the rest of the line were officiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morley Railway Station, Perth
Morley railway station is a suburban railway station on the Ellenbrook line in Embleton, Western Australia, Embleton and Morley, Western Australia, Morley, suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. Located in the median strip of Tonkin Highway at the Broun Avenue flyover, Morley station consists of an island platform at ground level with entrances on both sides of the Broun Avenue bridge. A bus interchange is located on the southern side of the bridge and a multi-storey car park is to the south-west. Early works under the Tonkin Gap project started in November 2020, which included the replacement of the Broun Avenue bridge, which occurred throughout 2022. The main contract for the construction of the Ellenbrook line was awarded to Laing O'Rourke in October 2020. Morley station reached completion in November 2024, and on 8 December 2024, the Ellenbrook line opened. During peak hour, peak, trains stop at Morley station every twelve minutes in each direction, increasing to every fiftee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Junction
A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements. A more technical term is "grade separation, grade-separated junction". A burrowing junction or dive-under occurs where the diverging line passes below the main line. The alternative to grade separation is a level junction or flat junction, where tracks cross At-grade intersection, at grade, and conflicting routes must be protected by interlocked railway signal, signals. Complexity Simple flying junctions may have a single track pass over or under other tracks to avoid conflict; complex flying junctions may have elaborate infrastructure to allow multiple routings without trains coming into conflict, in the manner of a highway stack interchange. Flying junction without crossings Where two lines each of two tracks merge with a flying junction, they can become a Quadr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laing O'Rourke
Laing O'Rourke is a multinational construction company headquartered in Dartford, England. It was founded in 1978 by Ray O'Rourke. It is the largest privately owned construction company in the United Kingdom. History The company was founded by Ray O'Rourke and his brother Des in 1978. Initially a specialist concrete subcontractor, it was originally based in East London, and was known as R. O'Rourke & Son. In September 2001, R. O'Rourke bought main contractor Laing Construction from John Laing plc for £1. Laing's construction business had been making significant losses, in part due to additional costs on the Cardiff Millennium Stadium project, the National Physical Laboratory, and No 1 Poultry in the City of London. The name of the company was changed to Laing O'Rourke. In May 2004, the company acquired Crown House Engineering, a mechanical and electrical engineering business, from Carillion. Laing O'Rourke went on to expand its operations in Australia in July 2006, when it a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonkin Gap
Tonkin Highway is an north–south highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth Airport and Kewdale with the city's north-eastern and south-eastern suburbs. As of April 2020, the northern terminus is at the interchange with Brand Highway and Great Northern Highway in Muchea, and the southern terminus is at Thomas Road in Oakford. It forms the entire length of State Route 4, and connects to several major roads. Besides Brand Highway and Great Northern Highway, it also connects to Reid Highway, Great Eastern Highway, Leach Highway, Roe Highway, and Albany Highway. Planning for the route began in the 1950s, but the first segment between Wattle Grove and Cloverdale was not opened until 1980. Over the next five years, the highway was extended north to Great Eastern Highway and south to Albany Highway, and a discontinuous section was constructed north of the Swan River. In 1988 the Redcliffe Bridge linked these sections, and three years later, Rei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Median Strip
A median strip, central reservation, roadway median, or traffic median is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways such as divided highways, dual carriageways, controlled-access highway, freeways, and motorways. The term also applies to divided roadways other than highways, including some major streets in urban or suburban areas. The reserved area may simply be road surface, paved, but commonly it is adapted to other functions; for example, it may accommodate decorative landscape design, landscaping, trees, a median barrier, or railway, rapid transit, light rail, or streetcar lines. Regional terminology There is no international English standard for the term. Median, median strip, and median divider island are common in North American and Antipodean Australian English, English. Variants in North American English include regional terms such as neutral ground in Culture of New Orleans, New Orleans usage or boulevard in Vancouver, British Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metronet (Western Australia)
Metronet (styled METRONET) is a multi-government agency in Western Australia. It is responsible for managing extensions to Perth's Railways in Perth, rail network. It was formed to deliver commitments made by the First McGowan Ministry, McGowan Government during the 2017 Western Australian state election, 2017 election campaign. History Metronet was first proposed as a set of rail infrastructure projects in December 2012 by the opposition Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party as an election commitment for the forthcoming 2013 Western Australian state election, 2013 state election. Included were new lines to Ellenbrook line, Ellenbrook, Airport line, Perth, Perth Airport, and eventually Wanneroo (all of which would branch from the existing Midland line, Perth, Midland line), extensions of the Yanchep line, Joondalup line to Yanchep railway station, Yanchep, the Armadale line to Byford railway station, Byford and eventually Pinjarra railway station, Pinjar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Western Australian State Election
The 2017 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 11 March 2017 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia, including all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 36 seats in the Legislative Council. The eight-and-a-half-year two-term incumbent Liberal– WA National government, led by Premier Colin Barnett, was defeated in a landslide by the Labor opposition, led by Opposition Leader Mark McGowan. Labor won 41 of the 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly—a 12-seat supermajority. This was WA Labor's strongest performance in a state election at the time, and formed the largest majority government and seat tally in Western Australian parliamentary history until that point. Additionally, Labor exceeded all published opinion polling, winning 55.5 percent of the two-party-preferred vote from a state record landslide 12.8-point two-party swing.Labor 55.5% 2PP vote and +12.8-point 2PP swing sourced from Antony Green's temporary estimate within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Labor Party
The Western Australian Labor Party, officially known as WA Labor, is the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It is the current governing party of Western Australia since winning the 2017 state election under Mark McGowan. History The Western Australian state division of the Australian Labor Party was formed at a Trade Union Congress in Coolgardie in 1899. Shortly afterwards the federal Labor Party was formalised in time for Australian federation in 1901. The WA Labor Party achieved representation in the Western Australian Parliament in 1900 with six members, and four years later the party entered into minority government with Henry Daglish becoming the first Labor Premier of Western Australia. Governance There are five layers of governance in the WA Labor party. These governance layers are filled with people from the party's general membership, as well as delegates from affiliated unions to the party. The five governance layers are: # The Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Liberal Party
The Western Australian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Western Australia. Founded in March 1949 as the Liberal and Country League of Western Australia (LCL), it simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1968. There was a previous Western Australian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged into the LCL in May 1949. The Liberal Party has held power in Western Australia for five separate periods in coalition with the National Party (previously the Country Party), with the longest period between 1959 and 1971. The party was the sole opposition in the state from 2017 until the 2021 election, where the party lost eleven seats, thus losing opposition status to the National Party, marking the first time the party had failed to form either a coalition government or opposition on its own. Following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
