17 September 2025
More transport, more homes, more jobs
Our city and state are growing. Melbourne will be a city of 9 million people by the 2050s – the size of London today.
We need more transport and more homes in the right places – and Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) will deliver both.
As a transport, housing and urban planning project, SRL will slash travel times, ease congestion, and connect our suburbs, ensuring our city grows in the right places. It will support the delivery of more homes and housing choice where people want to live – on the doorstep of world-class public transport, services, jobs, schools, parks and cafes.
Linking every major train service from the Frankston Line to the Werribee Line via Melbourne Airport, SRL will transform our public transport network - better connecting Victorians to employment, hospitals, universities and each other.
Construction of SRL East from Cheltenham to Box Hill is powering ahead, creating up to 8,000 direct local jobs. Tunnel boring machines to build the SRL East tunnels will arrive in late 2025 and launch in 2026. Major construction is underway, and SRL trains will be taking passengers in 2035.
SRL East at Clayton
The new SRL East station at Clayton will become a transport super hub, connecting more people to Clayton’s vibrant town centre and providing faster and more convenient transport to destinations across Melbourne and the Gippsland region.
The SRL East station and transport super hub at Clayton will make it easier for metropolitan and regional passengers from Gippsland to access leading medical research and hospitals, retail, entertainment and employment areas nearby, as well as travel to Melbourne's other middle suburbs.
The transport superhub will connect with both SRL East and the existing Clayton Station, catering to more than 15,000 people expected to board at the transport super hub in Clayton each day.
Station construction
Major construction of the SRL station at Clayton is underway. It will be completed in stages and is expected to take approximately 6 years.
Disruption at surface level is expected to be shorter than the overall construction time.
Construction stages and activities include:
- Initial works to prepare the site, such as moving underground services
- Early works involving demolition of existing structures, earthworks to prepare the site and moving underground services
- Protection works to safeguard the existing elevated rail line during SRL East construction activities
- Main works, including excavation of the station box, using a bottom-up construction to build the underground station
- Station completion including any road and path upgrades, incorporation of public open space and planting and landscaping.
During construction, there will be some temporary impacts to existing open space in Clayton. Replacement open spaces will be created nearby.
A new station at Clayton
The underground station at Clayton will be located north of Carinish Road and the existing Clayton Metro station. It will have 2 station entrances - 1 east of Clayton Road in the Remembrance Gardens and 1 west of Clayton Road near the existing station.
The new 2 level underground station platform will sit around 18m below ground, with lifts and escalators connecting passengers to SRL’s ‘turn up and go’ train services.
A new elevated walkway will connect passengers from the new station directly to the existing Clayton Station, making it safe, easy and fast to interchange between stations.
There will be accessible pick up and drop off areas, taxi bays and a secure bicycle hub with parking for up to 400 bicycles, plus 100 bicycle parks within the new station plaza.
The station will also include buildings to accommodate ticketing and customer facilities and potential retail tenancies, operational equipment and rail systems, and essential emergency and safety infrastructure.
As part of the works in Clayton, new pedestrian and cycling paths between Madeleine Street and Monash Medical Centre will also be created to improve safety in the area and connect with the Djerring Trail.
Planning around the new SRL East station at Clayton
We’re planning to ensure the area around the new SRL East station at Clayton benefits from an improved range of infrastructure and services, providing better connections to jobs, open space and community facilities.
We’ve been speaking to local communities for several years about how SRL can help meet the challenges of population growth and housing supply. We have written to the community, spoken with thousands of people at pop-up events, information sessions, webinars, and by phone and email. We’ve received over 10,000 community responses and submissions, which helped shape the structure planning process.
A structure plan guides the development of an area over time – helping to achieve sustainable growth and positive social, economic and environmental outcomes. Together with the broader planning framework, structure planning for SRL East precincts is an important part of the Victorian Government’s strategy to address housing affordability and supply with access to jobs, services and opportunities near good public transport.