Rail passengers from Victoria’s north-east will be denied easy access to the new Metro Tunnel and future Melbourne Airport rail link due to a decision not to rebuild a platform at Sunshine as part of the $4 billion station upgrade.

V/Line trains on the Albury line and XPT trains from NSW pass through Sunshine station en route to Southern Cross but have not been able to stop there since a platform on the standard-gauge line was removed in 2004.

The Albury line serves Albury, Wodonga, Chiltern, Springhurst, Wangaratta, Benalla, Violet Town, Euroa and Avenel.

The state government has confirmed that reinstating the platform is not part of the $4 billion Sunshine “superhub” redevelopment, which will prepare the congested junction for the airport rail link and the extension of Metro train ser

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