The planned locations for future Regional Rail Link stations are marked on this map:

https://raildocs.wongm.com/regional-rail-link/Regional-Rail-Link-additional-station-locations-DPCD-report-2009.jpg.html

I’ve also got a post in the works on Footscray’s original pair of railway stations. 😉

The state government’s Urban Land Corporation bought the land of the ‘Boardwalk’ estate at Point Cook way back in 1998:

https://www.acnu.org/wp-content/uploads/data/Chris%20OKeefe.pdf

While Williams Landing wasn’t given the go ahead until 2010.

https://www.railgeelong.com/location/williams-landing/

So you can’t even count on a state government backed land developer to give you a railway station in a timely matter!

I lived in Melton for 20 years and know what you mean.

But Lara, Trugganina are similar yet never seen you call them dustbowls.

Paynes Road in Rockbank was a literal pile of dirt when I visited back in 2019.

https://twitter.com/aussiewongm/status/1199620093170176000

For the past 15 years I’ve been passing through the area to photograph trains and I’m sad to see it all get covered by houses – I’ll miss the open plains.

Multi storey buildings that pools, gyms, etc have an owners corporation to manage the common areas – with owners of each apartment needing to pay an annual fee to maintain them. Jubilee estate has the ‘Jubilee Homeowners Association’:

https://www.myjubilee.com.au/owners-corporation/

There’ll be a station at either end of Jubilee when (if) the station at Sayers Rd gets built – as long as access to Sayers Rd across the Werribee River and the rail line is built in. And Sayers Rd is where the Western United stadium is going to be built, I think.

Interesting that proximity to train stations is as much a developer selling point now as it was 100-150 years ago! A developer map from probably the 1870s for my area in Footscray shows the railway station – would’ve been the original one on the Sunbury line west of the current one on the junction – shown just east of Victoria St so not quite in the right spot geographically (and not the original Middle Footscray – too early for that). Pre-dates West Footscray as well – but no ‘future station here’ marked!

Plenty of other estates being developed in rural areas that’s are similar yet you’ve never used that term before…

Why for this location??

Do you have something against Rockbank/Melton??