{"id":443766,"date":"2026-06-02T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=443766"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:20:14","slug":"airport-rail-works-take-off-in-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=443766","title":{"rendered":"Airport Rail works take off in Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Works for Melbourne Airport Rail Stage 1: West Footscray to Albion Rail Upgrade<\/a> are gathering pace, with crews on the ground for site investigations at Tottenham<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melbourne Airport Rail Stage 1 will untangle 6km of track between West Footscray and Albion and build 2 new platforms at Sunshine Station, transforming the station into a transport superhub with capacity for 1000 trains a day, including future trains to the airport and electric trains to Melton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crews have been busy undertaking soil assessments, locating underground services and assessing existing rail infrastructure between Tottenham and Sunshine stations, ahead of works ramping up across the area next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site investigations will help inform plans for reconfiguring tracks between Tottenham and Sunshine, new rail flyovers and a new Tottenham Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building 2 flyovers and removing the Tottenham freight crossover will permanently separate metro, regional and freight trains and create space for rail tracks to the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Tottenham Station<\/a> will be built 20m north of its current location on the realigned Sunbury Line corridor to maintain access to Sunbury services running through the Metro Tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Sunshine, work is already underway to relocate utilities adjacent to the rail corridor and create space for an expanded Sunshine Station, including moving a major telecommunications line beneath the Sun Crescent station car park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To allow crews to complete the work safely, 65 car spaces have been closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crews are also continuing the relocation of a major jet fuel pipeline<\/a> at Albion Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Site investigation work is underway at Tottenham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Moving the pipeline will allow the new platforms servicing the Geelong and Ballarat lines to be built at Sunshine Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will also allow construction of an extended station concourse, a new station entrance and landscaped forecourt, and a new pedestrian and cycling path over the rail line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Albion Station car park remains closed while construction on the pipeline is underway, with 8 accessible car spaces still available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melbourne Airport Rail Stage 1 will be completed in 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Sunshine, work is already underway to relocate utilities adjacent to the rail corridor and create space for an expanded Sunshine Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":443768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17733,47],"tags":[993,11593,20355,8],"class_list":["post-443766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marl","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-sunshine-railway-station","tag-tottenham","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443769,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443766\/revisions\/443769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/443768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}