No Ticket to Ride: $15 Billion Train Line to Open to Fanfare

Passengers on the platform get a photo taken at Anzac Station in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 30, 2025. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

Train fanatics and curious city-dwellers will clamour to ride a $15 billion rail line as it opens following more than a decade of planning and construction.

Regular services will start running through Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel on Sunday, stopping at five new underground stations that feature platform screen doors and shops.