New Trains & Trams
| Timeframe: | Short-medium term
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| Cost: | $4.2 billion | | |
What's happening
Two companies have been short-listed to design and build Melbourne's fleet of 50 new low floor trams. Alstom and Bombardier will be invited to tender before the end of the year. For more information,
read the media release.
The first new Xtrapolis train has been unveiled at Newport station.
View the image gallery.
Project description
Over the next decade, Melbourne's train system will move from a suburban commuter service to a modern metro system. To help this transition the Victorian Government is ordering up to 120 new metropolitan trains and trams, as well as up to 74 V/Line carriages.
The first of 38 new six-carriage X'Trapolis trains will roll onto the metropolitan network in late 2009.
Once these are on the tracks, Melbourne's first next generation trains, with 30 per cent more room to help people get on and off quickly, will begin arriving.
By 2012-13 the first of up to 50 low floor trams, which will be considerably larger than those now on the network, will begin arriving.
Ordering hundreds of new trains, trams and regional train carriages is part of the Victorian Government's plan for a better public transport network.
Project benefits
- Up to 70 new six-carriage trains on the metropolitan network, increasing our rail capacity by around 100,000 people, or more than 40 per cent.
- New generation trains to have 30 per cent more room.
- Up to 50 new trams, on track from 2012-13, able to carry more than 200 people each.
- Up to 74 new V/Line carriages to grow the V/Line fleet with the first now rolling out.
More information