16 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 Glen Waverley
Located in the heart of Glen Waverley’s activity centre, the new SRL East station will provide faster and more convenient access to the vibrant retail and hospitality area, and quick journeys to universities, employment and hospitals to the north and south.
The new SRL East station at Glen Waverley will be one of the most well-connected stations on the metropolitan network. The station will provide a key transport link to the Glen Waverley line and will integrate with local bus services – connecting more people to jobs, retail, restaurants, and entertainment nearby.
Station construction
Construction of the SRL East station at Glen Waverley will be completed in stages. 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 utility relocations
- Early works, including demolishing existing structures, earthworks and moving underground services to prepare the site and realigning Myrtle Street between Coleman Parade and Montclair Avenue
- Main works, including excavation of the station box, and construction to build the underground station
- Station completion including any road and path upgrades, incorporation of public open space and planting and landscaping.
A new station at Glen Waverley
The new underground station at Glen Waverley will be located in the heart of Glen Waverley with a single station entrance orientated towards Coleman Parade and the existing Glen Waverley station.
The station platform will sit around 17m below ground, with lifts and escalators connecting passengers to SRL’s ‘turn up and go’ train services.
Changing between SRL and metro trains and buses at Glen Waverley will be fast, easy and efficient. A new station plaza opposite Coleman Parade will enable passengers to easily connect with bus services and other surface transport options.
New walking and cycling paths will make it easier to move around and access Kingsway and the Glen Waverley Activity Centre.
There will be accessible pick up and drop off areas, taxi bays and up to 600 bicycle parking spaces located nearby.
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.
Planning around the new SRL East station at Glen Waverley
We’re planning to ensure the area around the new SRL East station at Glen Waverley 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.