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
A direct train connection
to Monash University, CSIRO Clayton site and leading research and innovation institutions for the first time.
Employment in Monash
will boom, with an additional 19,000 jobs as a result of the SRL.
Opportunities to build
recreation spaces, plazas and community facilities.
New pedestrian and cycling paths
to connect the station area to Monash University and nearby employment areas.
SRL East at Monash
The new station at Monash will connect more people to Melbourne’s largest employment and innovation hub outside the CBD – providing students, employees and visitors with a direct train connection to the area for the first time.
The new underground station will improve access to renowned education, health and research facilities, delivering important transport connections to the Monash National Employment and Innovation Cluster.
About 9,000 passengers are projected to use the SRL station at Monash daily when trains start running in 2035.
Fast facts
Monash University to Cheltenham
in 10 minutes, saving 35 minutes on the current public transport journey.
'Turn up and go’
train services.
9,000 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 Monash is being completed in stages. Disruption at surface level is expected to be shorter than the overall construction time.
Construction stages and activities include:
- Early works to prepare the site including demolition of existing structures, earthworks and moving underground services
- Main works including the construction of tunnel access structures, excavation of the station box and building the underground station
- Station completion including any road and path upgrades, incorporation of public open space and planting and landscaping.
A new station at Monash
The underground station at Monash will be located north of Monash University’s Clayton campus, between Normanby Road and Ferntree Gully Road, Notting Hill. The station will have two entrances- a southern entrance situated just north of Normanby Road to access Monash University via an upgraded signalised intersection, and a northern entrance providing a connection to the business precinct.
The new two-level underground station platform will sit around 20 metres below ground, with lifts and escalators connecting passengers to the SRL’s turn-up-and-go train services.
New pedestrian and cycling paths will connect the station area to Monash University and nearby employment areas.
A new bus interchange off Howleys Road will make it more convenient to access bus services, with accessible pick up and drop off areas, taxi bays and undercover 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 Monash
Planning rules for neighbourhoods around the SRL East stations – including Monash – 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.
