Travel advice

• Download the temporary timetable to plan your journey. At times during the disruption, the V/Line and PTV Journey Planners, Google Maps and other trip planning apps will not show altered departure and arrival times.
• Plan ahead and allow an extra 2 hours for your journey.
• Check before you travel as the service plan may be different on your return trip.
• If you’re travelling towards Traralgon and transferring at East Pakenham, please refer to the temporary timetable and catch the Pakenham Line Metro train that connects with a V/Line coach.
• Metro trains on the Pakenham Line depart from Platform 12 at Southern Cross and Platform 6 at Flinders Street stations.
• Depart at least 1 hour earlier than usual if you’re travelling from the city towards Traralgon and connecting with a scheduled coach service.
• If you need accessibility assistance, please call 1800 800 007 before you travel.

What’s happening?

This construction blitz will complete and commission the line’s new signalling system, so trains can run more often and more reliably, and enable trains to use the new platforms at Morwell and Traralgon stations.

Works will also include safety testing of the line’s new infrastructure and driver training.

When the upgrades are finished, more trains will be able to run on the Gippsland Line, giving you more travel options.