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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adeshola Ore

Planes, trains and the Skybus: experts debate whether Melbourne urgently needs an airport rail line

Commuters are seen at T8 Airport train station in Sydney.
Experts say Sydney, Brisbane and Perth all have rail connections to the airport, leaving Melbourne behind. Photograph: Flavio Brancaleone/AAP

It was 58 years ago when Victoria’s transport minister first made an impassioned case for a train line to connect Melbourne’s CBD to the yet-to-be completed airport in Tullamarine.

Every few years since, the words of Edward Meagher from 1965 arguing for “fast, cheap and convenient access to the city and suburbs for air passengers, visitors and airport workers” are republished, as others push the case for such a rail connection.

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