Acting Premier Jacinta Allan at the Parkville station on Sunday. She says the screen doors are necessary for running the service as efficiently as possible.Credit:Scott McNaughton
Rail Projects Victoria acting chief executive Peter Wilkinson said the screen doors also improved air conditioning on the platforms and reduced how much dust and wind blew onto passengers.
“They are about to be fired up and we will soon begin[final testing] ... to make sure they are fault-free,” Wilkinson said.
Allan also said commuters on the Frankston and Cranbourne/Pakenham lines could experience fewer delays in the near future after a month of construction to separate the two lines at Caulfield station. The two lines were replaced by bus services while that work was completed.
Allan inspects the work at Parkville Station.Credit:Scott McNaughton
Allan said trains had resumed and workers were testing the changes;the work would mean a delay on one line would not force the other to slow down or stop.
“Crews have been working around the clock to untangle a bottleneck that’s existed for decades in Melbourne’s train system where the two lines cross over,” she said.
“There’s been a huge amount of work to untangle that bottleneck but also to install high-capacity signalling infrastructure and technology to be able to run the high-capacity trains through the Metro Tunnel,and I want to really thank the workforce[who] were working really hard on that.”