IRSE Technical Meeting - Adelaide 22 July 2011

Rail Car Depot Infrastructure - The Dry Creek Experience

Paul Zhang & David Baulderstone

Sinclair Knight Merz

The former Adelaide Rail Car Depot has been relocated to Dry Creek to make way for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. This new Depot not only provides improved stabling capacity, but also infrastructure and train control systems to support the effective movement and control of suburban rollingstock in and out of various rail car facility buildings.

This paper provides an overview of the project, as well as a technical review of the following topics:

Redevelopment of the Signalling System at Dry Creek, including

• Upgrade Mainline relay interlocking to computer based interlocking system to accommodate additional signalling infrastructure
• Interface redesign between ARTC and Mainline, Mainline and Depot
• Define boundaries for Central Train Control and Depot Control

Power Distribution Design at Dry Creek Rail Car Depot

•  Transformer, generator and switchboard architecture
•  Underground conduit and pit network

Power monitoring

•  Dry Creek Project Design Challenges
•  Coordinating with multiple contractors
•  Introduction of new signalling equipment on Adelaide broad gauge network, such as Westrace, M23A and 84M point machine