Sunbury Electrification
| Timeframe: | Short term
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| Cost: | $270 million | | |
What's happening
The government has
called for tenders for the works associated with the Sunbury Electrification. Tenders closed on Thursday, 17 September 2009.
Community information sessions were held in Sunbury and Diggers Rest earlier in the year for the Sunbury Electrification Project. Further sessions will be scheduled in the future, please return to this page for updates.
Project description
The Victorian Government is committed to electrifying the rail line from Watergardens to Sunbury. This will change the way trains in the Sydneham-Sunbury corridor currently operate to help them carry more passengers and run more reliably which is vital to the ongoing viability of Melbourne's broader train network.
Specifically the project involves:
- Installation of electrical infrastructure between Watergardens and Sunbury
- Construction of stabling facilities at Sunbury Station
- Construction of an additional 500 commuter car parking spaces at Diggers Rest Station.
- An extra 100 car park spaces near Sunbury Station dedicated for commuters
- Station improvements at Sunbury and Diggers Rest stations.
This project will also result in the ability to fit more metropolitan trains into the timetable thus improving the service levels for commuters on the Sydenham-Sunbury corridor.
Works to electrify the network to Sunbury will commence in 2010 with metropolitan trains to run from Sunbury in 2012
.
Project benefits
- Extra suburban trains on the Sydenham line during the morning peak will carry an extra 3,000 people into the City each day – equivalent to more than one freeway lane of traffic.
- Once the line is electrified, all services will run using six-car metropolitan trains, which can carry more than double the number of passengers per train than the V/Line trains.
- This will free up V/Line carriages for use on Bacchus Marsh services, making the electrification project a win-win solution for commuters in the outer west.
- Sunbury and Diggers Rest stations will receive upgrades including an extra 100 commuter carparks near Sunbury Station and 500 extra parking spaces at Diggers Rest Station.
- An increase of ultimately more than double the number of current services during weekdays and weekends for Sunbury and Diggers Rest commuters.
More information