The Country Regional Network (CRN) is a system of 2,386 kilometres of operational passenger and freight rail lines and 3,139 route kilometres of non-operational lines owned by Transport for NSW. The CRN is operated and maintained by their Rail Infrastructure Manager, currently John Holland Rail Country Regional Network (JHRCRN), under a long-term contract. The network links broad parts of regional NSW with interstate and metropolitan rail systems in addition to supporting customers transporting coal, grain, cotton, minerals and containerised freight to domestic and export markets.
Over the past decade, the NSW Government has invested more than $1 billion in the operation and maintenance of the Country Regional Network which has included many projects aimed at upgrading and/or maintaining the existing assets. Two such improvements are upgrades to 53 level crossings and replacing over half a million old timber sleepers with modern long-life steel sleepers. JHRCRN enlisted Lycopodium Infrastructure (Lycopodium) to manage a number of these projects.
Lycopodium, though a secondment arrangement for Project Management Services, delivered $8.7M worth of projects contributing to JHRCRN’s total Annual Works Program. Lycopodium project managed the full project cycle from scoping and tendering to design, project and construction management.
During the 2021 financial year the $8.7M total projects managed by Lycopodium comprised of 7 bridge designs, 13 level crossing designs, 13 related civil designs, 7 level crossing constructions and 4 concrete sleeper insertion and reconditioning construction projects.
