17 September 2025
More transport, more homes, more jobs
Our city and state are growing. Melbourne will be a city of nine 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 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 SRL East station will improve access to world-class 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.
Station construction
Construction of the SRL station at Monash 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 moving underground services
- Early works involving demolition of existing structures, earthworks to prepare the site and move underground services
- These works will also involve modifications to road intersections, excavation and construction of tunnel access shafts and installation of a temporary network support facility to power tunnel boring machines
- Main works, including excavation of the station box and 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.
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. Two entrances are proposed - 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 2 level underground station platform will sit around 20m below ground, with lifts and escalators connecting passengers to SRL’s ‘turn up and go’ train services.
New pedestrian and cycling paths will connect the station precinct 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 SRL East 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
We’re planning to ensure the area around the new SRL East station at Monash 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.