Melburnians offered a glimpse of the new Anzac Station

New images of the future Anzac Station on St Kilda Road were released by Victoria’s Big Build.

New images of the future Anzac Station on St Kilda Road in Melbourne have been revealed, as workers prepare to install massive steel columns that will support the station’s soaring timber canopy.

Anzac Station is one of the five new underground train stations being built across Melbourne’s CBD as part of the Metro Tunnel project, which will untangle the City Loop.

The images show the station concourse flooded with natural light below the 85m-long canopy, which will provide year-round weather protection for tram and train commuters.

Work will begin in the coming weeks to install the station’s defining features – the steel support columns and timber canopy – and continue over the next six months. Crews will use cranes to lift the support columns into the underground station site before fixing them into place on the station’s concourse level. They will then assemble the canopy’s 13 curved timber rafters and attach them to the support columns, before installing the roof panelling and skylights.

Other work taking place at the same time will include demolishing the station site’s temporary concrete cover, completing the station’s permanent roof and building out the tram interchange entrance at ground level, including installing stairs and escalators. At the end of the year, St Kilda Road’s tram tracks and traffic lanes will be realigned for the final time over the station.

The new station will give Melburnians and visitors rail access to the Royal Botanic Gardens and Shrine of Remembrance for the first time and include the city’s only direct platform to platform train-tram interchange. From 2029, it will link directly to Melbourne Airport Rail via the Metro Tunnel.

The Metro Tunnel will create a new end-to-end rail line from Sunbury in the west to Cranbourne/Pakenham in the south east, with bigger and better trains, next generation signalling technology and five new stations.

Arden Station, another Metro Tunnel station, is now open for public viewing, with a tour this Sunday March 27 giving the public a chance to see first-hand how work is progressing.

Find out more about the new Anzac Station here. Visit the Arden Station and Tunnel Tour page for more information on the project.