Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Shepparton rail line

Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (18:08): (1619) My adjournment this evening is for the Minister for Public and Active Transport, and the action I seek is for the completion of the upgrades to the Shepparton rail line. In 2017 the then Andrews Labor government announced a plan to upgrade the Shepparton rail line. This upgrade included more train services; faster VLocity trains; upgrades to station platforms at Mooroopna, Murchison East and Nagambie; stabling yards in Shepparton; and 59 crossing upgrades in the first two stages. These two stages of upgrades were completed in 2022.

Three years on, travellers on the Shepparton line are still waiting for the final stage 3 upgrades to be completed. Traffic lights on Wyndham Street, Shepparton, were installed in 2020 in preparation for these upgrades and have yet to be switched on. Victoria’s Big Build website lists all but one of the stage 3 upgrades as completed. My constituents are now asking how much longer they will have to wait to see these works completed and the much-needed traffic lights on Wyndham Street switched on. So the action I seek from the Minister for Public and Active transport is for the long-awaited stage 3 upgrades to the Shepparton rail line to be completed.