Contract Progresses on Upgrade Works for the Melton Line

The Melton Line enters a critical growth phase as crews push ahead with upgrades that modernise stations, add capacity, and prepare the corridor for long-term electrification across Melbourne’s fast-growing west.

This is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

Strategic Investments Strengthen the Melton Line

John Holland, KBR, Metro Trains Melbourne and V/Line lead the current works program along the corridor and coordinate with the Level Crossing Removal Project. For many commuters, that partnership finally turns plans into machinery on site.

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The $650 million program stretches across Cobblebank, Rockbank, Caroline Springs and Deer Park, and crews extend platforms to handle nine-car V/Locity trains. At peak times, those longer sets should lift capacity by about 50 percent.

Federal and Victorian governments commit $325 million, and that split funding backs the project at both levels. To be fair, planners see Cobblebank as a hub because the scheme adds a stabling yard for later electrification.

Melton Line Works Deliver Bridges and Station Capacity

Crews establish worksites at Deer Park and prepare staging at Caroline Springs, and these steps start to reshape travel in the west. Workers advance level crossing removals in parallel, so disruption now buys safer journeys tomorrow.

Engineers pour foundations for rail bridges that replace level crossings at Coburns Road and Exford Road. They build road bridges at Ferris Road and Hopkins Road, so trains and vehicles meet at ground level far less.

Next year, the last level crossings on the corridor will disappear and Melton Station will open with four platforms for Ballarat services. Extended platforms will handle trains that start and finish at Melton; “we can see the cliff coming,” as one planner put it.

Source: www.railexpress.com.au

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