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New station at Melbourne Airport New station at Keilor East New dedicated rail tracks Bridge over the Western Ring Road (M80) Bridge over the Maribyrnong River Valley New Albion Station Sunshine Station Superhub New and upgraded shared use paths H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens
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New Albion Station

As part of work to deliver the Sunshine Station Superhub, a new Albion Station will be built to become a modern and accessible station.

The new Albion Station is funded by the Victorian Government and it will provide an important boost to this growing precinct.

Further design development and community engagement will be undertaken to shape the details of the new station.

Albion flyover

A section of elevated rail – a flyover – will be built between Sunshine and the Albion rail junction as part of a future stage of Melbourne Airport Rail.

This design will see twin rail tracks rising before Anderson Road, Sunshine and continuing through to the start of the Albion-Jacana freight corridor, elevating the rail line over existing rail tracks, Ballarat Road and St Albans Road before returning to ground level.

The Albion flyover will be around 18m in height at its highest point over Ballarat Road (26m high including overhead wiring structures) and located around 31m away from the John Darling flour mills.

Options assessment

The preferred solution between Sunshine and Albion is the result of detailed investigations, design and planning by engineers, transport modellers, urban designers and other experts with extensive experience of the rail network and other infrastructure projects in Australia and around the world. This part of the rail corridor is highly active, complex and constrained with several tracks, major roads and a critical jet fuel pipeline to consider. View the Albion flyover options assessment fact sheet (PDF, 1.4 MB).

Building the flyover is the best outcome for this section of the rail network to minimise impacts to existing infrastructure, reduce disruption to road and rail users during construction, provide more reliable travel times for Melbourne Airport Rail services and enable further network investments in the future.

Heritage will continue to be an important consideration as the design progresses.