More than 1,100 extra train and tram services to help move around 300,000 people to and from the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The best way to get to the carnival will be by public transport, with the extra train and tram services providing fast, safe and frequent transport straight to the track.

The bulk of extra services will be on Melbourne’s train network with more than 1,000 additional services running across Derby, Melbourne Cup, Oaks and Stakes days.

An extra 186 services will be put on for Oaks Day, which will also include regular weekday services.

Trains will depart Flinders Street station every six minutes and at the end of each race day, and trains will leave Flemington every four minutes to get people home again.

Metro has also been completing maintenance and renewal works along the rail line to Flemington, including replacing old timber sleepers with concrete sleepers, improving drainage, and clearing vegetation and graffiti from the station precinct.