With 250 drivers now trained for the new Metro Tunnel, the project has more than half of the 400 drivers needed to begin services later in 2025.
Each Metro Tunnel driver is undertaking around 150 hours of extra training on the cutting-edge systems and technology that will be used on Victoria’s newest train line.
Eventually this number will rise to more than 1000 drivers trained – the majority of drivers on the metropolitan network.
More drivers are set to be trained inside the tunnel over the coming months, as trains run for hundreds of kilometres back and forth to stress test the new systems and technology that will run services.
While driver training ramps up as part of the project’s trial operations phase, station staff are also being trained in the many processes and procedures that will be needed to operate the new stations safely.
More than 200 station staff will work across the Metro Tunnel’s five new stations – Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac.
To learn more about trial operations, visit bigbuild.vic.gov.au
