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Australia's second largest city has some 3.3 million inhabitants. The rapid rail system serving the Melbourne is actually not a metro or subway service in the classical sense but a frequent suburban train service which runs in a 4-track underground loop in the centre of Melbourne. Routes are bundled in the central area and offer a metro-like service with trains every few minutes. It depends on the time of the day whether trains run around the city loop clockwise or anti-clockwise. Sandringham trains leave from Flinders Street station without running the loop.

Apart from the metropolitan trains, Melbourne has the largest tram network outside Europe with more than 200 km of urban and suburban lines.

Photos by kind permission © David Johnson

1984 - City Loop completed with 3 underground stations: Parliament, Melbourne Central, Flagstaff

 Projects

- OPERATION

4:30 - 24:00, Sun 7:30 - 24:00, every 10-20 minutes on all branches, every few minutes on city loop and bundled lines.

VicTrip - Victoria's Official Public Transport Home Page

Metro Trains Melbourne

Melbourne Trains at Wikipedia

YarraTrams - the world's largest tram network outside Europe

Extensive map including tram lines