On Saturday 21 June we will be trialing Metro Tunnel’s turn-up-and-go services along the full length of the Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham lines.
Trains on those lines will be running to a weekday service frequency, so there will be more services compared to the usual Saturday timetable.
Passengers heading to and from the city will need to change to a different service as part of their journey to enable test trains to run through the Metro Tunnel without passengers.
This will be the first time that the tunnel’s new systems and infrastructure are tested over a full day.
More information on passenger changes for the Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham lines are available on the Metro Trains website.
Thorough and extensive testing is crucial to ensure that the new infrastructure, systems and processes are safe and ready for passenger services when the Metro Tunnel opens later this year.
Want to learn more about this new phase of testing? Network operations expert Shannon Rollinson explains.