You hear it before you see it. And you feel it before you hear it. The dull tremor of mass moving at speed. The whumpfh of air pushed through a confined space. The whine of electric motors. And then, finally, the glow of headlights in the gloom.

Construction on the first new Melbourne CBD train station in more than 40 years is finally finished: Town Hall Station, dug 27 metres below Swanston Street.

Town Hall station, displaying the vaulted cathedral-like rooves. Credit: Wayne Taylor

It’s not taking commuters yet, but ghost trains are running to and from the station during a testing phase of the five new Metro Tunnel stations.

The ghost trains aren’t even operating at full service but for anyone who has waited 24 minutes for the Lilydale line, the frequency is still striking. In so

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