Department of Infrastructure, State Government of Victoria, Australia.

New metropolitan rail services

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Daytime train services on the Werribee line have doubled in frequency as of Monday 20 July 2009. Werribee line passengers benefited from 225 new weekly services, as part of 290 new and extended weekly services introduced on the metropolitan rail network.

New and extended services were also introduced on the Craigieburn, Dandenong and Frankston lines.



November 2008 rail timetable

From 9 November 2008, 328 new and extended weekly services were added to the metropolitan rail timetable. This was made possible by one of the biggest restructures of the rail network since the introduction of the City Loop.

The changes to the operation of the Werribee, Epping and Hurstbridge lines have enabled the train network to better meet the capacity challenges of the future. The animations below show the reasoning behind these changes.


Overview for Werribee line passengers (01:27)

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Overview for Epping & Hurstbridge line passengers (00:47)

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