Editing Sandringham line (section)

== Future ==

=== Network reconfiguration ===
When the new cross-city rail corridor being built by the [[Metro Tunnel]] opens in 2025 there will be a reorganisation of the Melbourne rail network.<ref name=":42">{{Cite web |title=PTV Network Development Plan Metropolitan Rail Overview |url=https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/assets/PTV-default-site/footer/legal-and-policies/growing-our-rail-network-2018-2025/PTV_Network-Development-Plan_Metropolitan-Rail_Overview_2016update.pdf |access-date=18 December 2012 |website=Public Transport Victoria |archive-date=19 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919131436/https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/assets/PTV-default-site/footer/legal-and-policies/growing-our-rail-network-2018-2025/PTV_Network-Development-Plan_Metropolitan-Rail_Overview_2016update.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Department of Transport and Planning|Victorian Department of Transport and Planning]] plans to return the [[Frankston railway line|Frankston line]] to the [[City Loop]], with dedicated use of the Caulfield group tunnel track.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Planning |first=Department of Transport and Planning |title=Transport strategies and plans |url=https://dtp.vic.gov.au/about/planning/transport-strategies-and-plans |access-date=7 February 2023 |website=dtp.vic.gov.au |language=en-au |archive-date=12 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212093612/https://dtp.vic.gov.au/about/planning/transport-strategies-and-plans |url-status=live }}</ref> This will mean Frankston line trains will no longer through-run with Werribee and Williamstown line trains, and will again stop at City Loop stations [[Flagstaff railway station|Flagstaff]], [[Melbourne Central railway station|Melbourne Central]] and [[Parliament railway station|Parliament]].<ref name=":6" /> As part of the reconfiguration, the Sandringham line would instead begin through-running services to [[Werribee line|Werribee]] and [[Williamstown line|Williamstown]] lines for the first time.<ref name=":6" />

Stage 4 of the [[Network Development Plan – Metropolitan Rail]] proposed that the [[Upfield railway line|Upfield]] and Sandringham lines be joined via a reconfigured City Loop sometime in the 2030s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Growing Our Rail Network 2018–2025 |url=https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/footer/legal-and-policies/growing-our-rail-network-2018-2025/ |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=Public Transport Victoria |language=en-GB |archive-date=12 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812025052/https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/footer/legal-and-policies/growing-our-rail-network-2018-2025/ |url-status=live }}</ref>