A PLAN for a new rail line to Monash University and Rowville, floated by the Baillieu government before it won office, looks set to be shelved indefinitely.

The Rowville Rail Study, provided to The Age yesterday by Victorian Transport Minister Terry Mulder, recommends building new tracks from Huntingdale station on the Dandenong line to Rowville.

A Rowville train line 'could not be provided for at least a decade', according to the study.

The new line would go underground from Huntingdale to Monash University's Clayton campus - which is currently served only by buses - and then on to Rowville via an overpass and another tunnel.

But the line would only be feasible, the report says, if new tracks were built on the Dandenong line and several level crossings removed. It would also depend on the proposed but unfunded Melbourne Metro tunnel from South Kensington to South Yarra being built.