Tunnel boring machine Grace reaches the halfway mark of tunnelling in November 2018 - a major milestone for the Forrestfield-Airport Link.

The Forrestfield dive structure, where the tunnel boring machines will launch from, is 260m long and up to 22m wide. It took seven months to build, but you can see how it was done in less than 70 seconds.

Located at the junction of Brearley Avenue and Dunreath Drive, Redcliffe Station will offer a bus/train interchange designed to optimise travel times. When the station opens in 2020 passengers will have a 15 minute journey to the CBD.

Located at the base of the control tower at Perth Airport’s Terminal 1, Airport Central Station will provide an 18 minute train journey to the CBD when it opens in 2021.

A 400-tonne crane is onsite at Forrestfield to help assemble our first tunnel boring machine (TBM). It can be seen here lifting the two heaviest sections of the TBM, the 164 and 143 tonne shields, into position.

Key components of our 600 tonne tunnel boring machine have now been delivered to the Forrestfield site. The $20m machine is one of two TBMs which will each dig 8km of 7m diameter tunnels from Forrestfield to Bayswater, with tunnelling due to begin later this year.

The $1.86 billion Forrestfield-Airport Link is jointly funded by the Australian and Western Australian governments and will deliver a new rail service to the eastern suburbs of Perth – with three new stations at Belmont, Airport Central and Forrestfield.