Everything You Need To Know About Albert Street’s Transformation In Brisbane CBD
Dinushka Gunasekara
Brisbane Editor | Urban List
City slickers will know Albert Street is already starting to look a little sleeker and a little greener, but there’s still plenty more to come—including the first CBD station built in more than 120 years.
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s going down on Albert Street:
Albert Street Station
Set 31 metres below surface level, the brand-new Albert Street Station will introduce a much more convenient way to access the southern part of the CBD. It’ll be your stop to visit QUT’s Gardens Point campus, the parliamentary precinct, Queen’s Wharf, the Eagle Street business district and the City Botanic Gardens. Alongside the existing Central Station, it will also provide easy access to Queen Street Mall with two station entrances at Mary and Elizabeth streets.
Image credit: Cross River Rail Delivery Authority | Website
The station itself is designed in homage to Queensland verandas, with a canopy extending 22 metres from the main station entrance on the corner of Albert and Mary streets to provide a shady reprieve on a balmy Brisbane day.
Underground, Albert Street Station will feature 220m long platforms and is expected to be used by 67,260 people every weekday by 2036. There will also be art created by incredible Indigenous artists throughout the station.
Image credit: Cross River Rail Delivery Authority | Website
If you’re a visual learner, you can check out a simulated journey from seat to street here.
Construction is well and truly under way, with both entrances nearing completion by September 2026. Albert Street Station is slated to begin passenger services in 2029.
Albert Street Green Spine
While the trains run below, a leafy new public realm is being built between Elizabeth and Mary streets. The pedestrianised corridor will breathe new life into Albert Street, with a proposed Green Spine running from the City Botanic Gardens in the south of the CBD to the Roma Street Parklands in the north.
Image credit: Cross River Rail Delivery Authority | Website
A new public plaza will connect the two station entrances with wide open spaces to cater for the station’s comings and goings, shaded seating and green landscaping. The Spine will also serve as the gateway to 101 Albert Street: a new 40-storey office and mixed-use building that is designed to look like a subtropical vertical garden when viewed from Albert Street station.
Image credit: Cross River Rail Delivery Authority | Website
The pedestrian zone directly in front of the northern entrance to Albert Street Station is now finished, with the section between Charlotte Street and Mary Street next in line.
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