About the Project
ADDRESS Penrhyn Road Port Botany
VALUE $85 million
OVERVIEW
The Sydney AutoStrad Botany Rail Expansion (SABRE) project was a staged project jointly funded by NSW Ports and Patricks Stevedores to double the port’s rail capacity and improve the train turn-around times by an automated rail handling facility integrated to Patricks automated container terminal.
Mainland Civil was awarded Stages 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6 of the works, which comprised of demolition and removal of existing pavements, 600m of double-gantry rail with crane rail beams, piling for the overhead auto-gantry cranes. 31,000m2 of heavyduty PCP, RCP and PT pavements, Utilities construction, 600m of 4 rail sidings on reinforced concrete base and 600m of 2 rail sidings on ballast track with turnouts.