Victoria’s busiest rail corridors will receive $572 million to deliver power and signalling upgrades.
Melbourne’s Pakenham, Cranbourne and Sunbury lines will undergo upgrades to enable high capacity metro trains to run to Sunbury, and to duplicate the Cranbourne line.
The Victorian Government’s investment aims to deliver more services, better reliability and provide room for an additional 234,000 peak passengers every week from Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham.
The existing project to remove the level crossings between Dandenong and Caulfield has included upgraded power, new track, longer platforms and modernised signalling.
The new project aims to expand these upgrades along the entire corridor to ensure high-capacity trains can reliably run all the way from Cranbourne and Pakenham to Sunbury, linked through the CBD by the Metro Tunnel.
Victorian Minister for Public Transport Jacinta Allan said the state government is delivering longer trains, getting rid of level crossings and building the Metro Tunnel.
“We’re investing more than any government in Victoria’s history to transform our public transport system and get passengers home safer and sooner,” Ms Allan said.
“This massive investment will see upgrades to power, track, stations and modern signalling along this new end to end rail corridor and will pave the way for more trains, more often.”
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