Keilor East railway station is a planned railway station as a part of the Melbourne Airport railway line that will serve the suburbs of

Keilor East Keilor East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Brimbank and Moonee Valley local government areas. Keilor East recorded a population of 15,078 at the ...

Keilor Park Keilor Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank local government area. Keilor Park recorded a population of 2,684 at the 2021 census. Keilor P ...

and

Airport West Airport West is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area. Airport West recorded a population of 8,173 at the . Bounded b ...

. It is scheduled to open in 2029.

History

The Melbourne Airport Rail project plans to build a new Metro line through the north-west of

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using the rail reservation currently used by the Albion-Jacana freight corridor. Since the announcement of the project, local councils have advocated for a station to be added to serve nearby suburbs, arguing the area is currently underserved by public transport. In September 2022, the

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announced the project would add a station on the border of Keilor East and Airport West, connecting 150,000 people to the metropolitan rail network. According to media reports, the Government did not plan to include the new station in the initial project, but after local advocacy and the public intervention of Public Transport Minister

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in parliament, the project's business case was supplemented to add the station. The Government's supplementary business case argued delivering the station at the same time as the link would save 15% compared with building the station after the line was operational.

Platforms and services

The station will be situated along the Melbourne Airport rail link, as part of two planned stations along the line. Trains will run from

Melbourne Airport Melbourne Airport , colloquially known as Tullamarine Airport, is the primary airport serving the city of Melbourne, and the second busiest airport in Australia. It opened in 1970 to replace the nearby Essendon Airport. Melbourne Airport is t ...

to Keilor East before continuing to

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, through the

Metro Tunnel The Metro Tunnel (previously known during planning as the Melbourne Metro Rail Project) is a metropolitan rail infrastructure project currently under construction in Melbourne, Australia. It includes the construction of twin 9-kilometre rail tun ...

and then along the Pakenham/ Cranbourne lines. Services are planned to run every ten minutes all-day. Trains will take 6 minutes to travel to Melbourne Airport, 8 minutes to Sunshine, and 27 minutes to the Melbourne CBD. Platform 1: * express services to Cranbourne and Pakenham Platform 2: * services to

References

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