Rail Services

Rail Engineering Design

Hardstands. Level Crossings. Turnouts. Spurs. Loops. Shared Paths. Permanent Way.

Lycopodium provides design services throughout all stages of a rail project lifecycle – from feasibility and concept to detailed design.

Whether for a large intermodal facility, a track reconditioning design, or anything in between, our team is recognised as one of the premier rail design partners in Australia, ensuring designs that are constructible and fit-for-purpose with longevity in mind.

Our people have direct design and management experience across a range of rail infrastructure, from heavy haul freight networks to mixed freight and passenger interstate networks and restricted grain lines.

Track and Civil Design

Safe, efficient and sustainable principles are central to every design that we produce.

Our permanent way design and documentation extends to plain line track alignment, turnouts, special track work and design of track components.

We see the big picture and are adept at track structure design and assessment; formation and earthworks design; drainage design; track stability assessments; and all associated civil design requirements.

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Yard and Terminal Design

Intermodal Facilities. Logistics hubs. Ports. Hardstands. Maintenance facilities.

We have worked with many of the nation’s biggest names in rail freight and logistics to create fit-for-purpose designs that ensure safe, efficient movement of freight, raw materials and agricultural produce, the goods that keep our economy moving.

Whether a one-off small project or a large-scale world-class facility, Lycopodium has the experience and technical capability you can trust.

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Level Crossing Design

From delivering a study or assessment, to creating the design or project managing the construction, Lycopodium has a breadth of level crossing experience throughout the asset’s lifecycle. We have delivered numerous LX upgrades, conducted sighting distance compliance assessments and designed crossings for clients across Australia.

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Track Rating / Upgrades

Factors such as population growth and climate change are influencing the nation’s freight task, necessitating rail upgrades to ensure that our infrastructure can keep pace with these changes. Our Lycopodium rail design team specialises in increasing axle loads, increasing speed capacity, line reopening assessments, track slews, duplications, and various improvements to existing lines.

From first principles assessment, we will consider your brownfield project and provide fit-for-purpose designs that ensure you to get maximum value from your asset by considering whole-of-life assessment.

We provide studies, business cases, independent assessments, detailed designs and project management to ensure our rail network can meet demand today and into the future.

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Bridges, Culverts and Structures

Rail design involves much more than just track and ballast, extending to the assets and structures that support the rail, including bridges, culverts, drainage and surrounding civil works. Our designs address all below rail infrastructure, capable of managing your project from concept to IFC and construction, through to maintenance and renewal of existing assets.

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The way we work, works.

See for yourself just how well our flexible, stop-at-nothing approach works
for clients in a variety of industries requiring our rail engineering design services.

Muswellbrook Rail Bridges UpgradeInfrastructureAustraliaAustralian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC)
Lycopodium was engaged to deliver detailed track and civil design services as well as concept and detailed signalling design of three bridge structures in Muswellbrook, NSW.
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Southern Highlands Overtaking Opportunities DesignInfrastructureAustraliaAustralian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC)
The Southern Highlands Overtaking Opportunities project aims to improve the efficiency and safety of rail services by creating new overtaking opportunities on the Southern Highlands line. This will involve the design and construction of new overtaking opportunities provided through bi-directional crossovers at two separate locations, as well as other infrastructure improvements to support increased capacity and faster travel times for passengers.
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Riverina Intermodal Freight and Logistics HubInfrastructureAustraliaHuon Contractors
Lycopodium is completing a detailed Track and Civil Design for the Riverina Intermodal Freight and Logistics Hub (RIFL). The RIFL is an under-construction dry port in the northern Wagga Wagga suburb of Bomen, adjacent to the Main Southern railway line.
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Port Botany Rail DuplicationInfrastructureAustraliaAustralian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC)
Lycopodium was engaged by ARTC to survey and assess the condition, capacity and location of existing combined services route (CSR) and cable route infrastructure, as part of a pair of projects at Port Botany.
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Muswellbrook Rail Bridges UpgradeInfrastructureAustraliaAustralian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC)
Lycopodium was engaged to deliver detailed track and civil design services as well as concept and detailed signalling design of three bridge structures in Muswellbrook, NSW.
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Southern Highlands Overtaking Opportunities DesignInfrastructureAustraliaAustralian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC)
The Southern Highlands Overtaking Opportunities project aims to improve the efficiency and safety of rail services by creating new overtaking opportunities on the Southern Highlands line. This will involve the design and construction of new overtaking opportunities provided through bi-directional crossovers at two separate locations, as well as other infrastructure improvements to support increased capacity and faster travel times for passengers.
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