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.