Summer Start
Additional services through the Metro Tunnel will run between West Footscray (Sunbury Line) to Westall (Cranbourne and Pakenham Line) 7 days a week from 30 November.
- Monday to Friday – services every 20 minutes from 10.00am until 3:00pm between Westall and West Footscray
- Weekends – services every 20 minutes from 10.00am until 7.00pm between Westall and West Footscray, every 40 minutes from East Pakenham, and every 60 minutes from Sunbury.
Existing Cranbourne, Pakenham and Sunbury line services will run through the City Loop to the current timetable.
Passengers on the existing services can switch to Metro Tunnel services at an interchange station, such as Caulfield, Malvern, Footscray, Flinders Street or Melbourne Central.
Big Switch
As part of the Big Switch, Cranbourne, Pakenham and Sunbury Line services will come out of the City Loop and run exclusively through the Metro Tunnel from 1 February 2026.
There will also be major changes to the public transport timetable, including:
- over 1000 new weekly services on the Sunbury Line
- over 100 new weekly services on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines.
This increase in services means passengers from West Footscray to Dandenong will have a train at least every 10 minutes all day, every day of the week. Peak services will be on average every 3 to 4 minutes for passengers between Watergardens and Dandenong.