17 September 2025
More transport, more homes, more jobs
Melbourne is growing. We’re building the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) now to make moving across Melbourne easier, quicker and more affordable for generations to come.
SRL will reduce travel times, ease congestion, and connect our suburbs, ensuring our city grows in the right places. It will enable construction of more homes and housing choice close to public transport, services, jobs, schools, parks and cafes.
Connecting to all major train lines from Cheltenham to the west via Melbourne Airport, SRL will transform our public transport network - connecting more Victorians to employment, hospitals, universities and each other.
Construction of SRL East from Cheltenham to Box Hill is underway, creating up to 8,000 direct local jobs. Tunnel boring machines are building the twin tunnels and the underground stations are taking shape. Trains will be taking passengers in 2035.
SRL will deliver
Better and more direct connections
to vital health and medical facilities including Monash Medical Centre.
More jobs closer to home.
employment in Clayton will almost triple to around 57,500 jobs as a result of the SRL.
Opportunities to build
and enhance open space including areas under the elevated rail line.
New pedestrian and cycling paths
will improve safety and connect with the Djerring Trail.
SRL East at Clayton
With the new SRL station, 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 new station and transport super hub at Clayton will make it easier for more Victorians – including regional passengers – to access universities, leading medical research and hospitals, retail, entertainment and employment areas in Melbourne's suburbs, without having to go into the CBD to change trains. More than 15,000 are expected to board at Clayton each day.
Fast facts
Clayton to Cheltenham
in less than 10 minutes, saving 25 minutes on the current public transport journey.
‘Turn up and go’
train services.
15,000 passengers
expected to use the station every day.
70,000 passengers
expected to use the SRL East every day - nearly half shifting from their cars.
Station construction
Construction of the SRL station at Clayton is being completed in stages. Disruption at surface level is expected to be shorter than the overall construction time.
Construction stages and activities include:
- Protection works to safeguard the existing elevated rail line during construction activities
- 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. Two brand new recreational spaces are now open in Clayton while construction of SRL East is underway.
A new station at Clayton
The underground station at Clayton will be located north of Carinish Road and the existing Clayton Station.
The station platform will sit around 18 metres 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 include buildings to accommodate ticketing, customer facilities, 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 Road and Monash Medical Centre will improve safety in the area and connect with the Djerring Trail.
Planning around the new SRL East station at Clayton
Planning rules for neighbourhoods around the SRL East stations – including Clayton – have been finalised, streamlining approvals for thousands more homes around the SRL East stations over the next 15 years.
We’ve been speaking to the community for several years about how the SRL East can bring more jobs, homes and services within walking distance of world-class public transport.
Community feedback played a vital role in finalising the plans, with more than 10,000 responses and submissions received throughout the planning process, including public hearings.
A structure plan guides the development of an area over time – helping to achieve sustainable growth and positive social, economic and environmental outcomes.
The new rules will ensure the areas around the stations remain vibrant, thriving neighbourhoods for generations to come – giving developers and the community certainty about the scale and type of future development expected in local areas.
