The new Hurstbridge Line tunnel which has been under construction for the last few months as apart of the North East Link/M80 works is now the second longest tunnel on the Melbourne Rail network outside of the CBD 🚇

Video randomly from the MTM LinkedIn page of all places

Anyway only two more weeks to go for this shutdown. Hurstbridge Line will have been operating in sections for nearly 9 weeks once these works to build the new tunnel (or alternative naming). I actually think this is one of the longest rail shutdowns we’ve had for a while?

Actually nowhere near the longest, I forgot the whole Union Station clusterfuck which shutdown the Lilydale and Belgrave lines for more than 3 months lol

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I'm so against calling this thing a tunnel

Not actually a tunnel yet, they've only installed the concrete slab track and side walls - the roof still needs to be installed over the top.

I had no idea this was happening

Hunnel?

How sad they did not connect this to a rail tunnel built with the road tunnel to the north?

For the disruptions that this has caused, it looks pretty neat

Yay a second Metro Tunnel