{"id":296400,"date":"2025-10-05T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=296400"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:00:10","slug":"town-hall-metro-station-finally-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=296400","title":{"rendered":"Town Hall Metro Station finally complete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Major construction on the first new Melbourne CBD train station in more than 40 years is finally finished. This is a great addition to the Melbourne rail network but more trains are needed.  We need more lines connecting the city to our suburbs and we need them now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project created a direct, underground connection into Flinders Street Station by extending the Degraves Street Subway &#8211; so you won&#8217;t even need to touch off to change between Metro Tunnel and City Loop trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means we&#8217;re another step closer to opening the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=1168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Metro Tunnel<\/a> later this year, cutting congestion and getting you to work, uni and home sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Train drivers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=287136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">stranded in Melbourne\u2019s new\u00a0Metro Tunnel\u00a0for almost five hours<\/a> when a systems fault brought trains to a standstill during test operations last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 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