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The Mildura railway line is a heavy rail line in northwestern Victoria, Australia. The line runs from Yelta station to Ballarat station via the settlements of Mildura, Ouyen and Maryborough in an approximate south-southeasterly direction. Initial sections of the line opened from Ballarat in 1874 and the line reached Mildura in 1903.
Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria.South of Bendigo, where the former highway has been upgraded to freeway-standard, Calder Freeway links to Melbourne, subsuming former alignments of Calder Highway; the Victorian Government completed the conversion to freeway standard from Melbourne to ...
Clunes railway station is a regional railway station on the Mildura line, part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the town of Clunes, in Victoria, Australia. Clunes station is a ground level unstaffed station, featuring one side platform. It opened on 16 November 1874, with the current station provided in 2011.
On 30 April 1984, the first V/Line country coach service commenced with a daily Melbourne to Mildura service being introduced, replacing services formerly operated by Ansett Pioneer and Holidaymakers of Mildura. It was operated under contract by Holidaymakers and Mildura Bus Lines. [7] On 2 December 1984, the Speedlink service was introduced.
The Mildura railway line was closed by the Kennett Government in 1993 after the withdrawal of The Vinelander service. As part of the Victorian Transport Plan, passenger services resumed on the Mildura line to Maryborough on 25 July 2010. Services operate 2 times per day, as shuttles from Ballarat. Connects to a train from Melbourne. Ballarat ...
As well as route and school services, BusBiz operates long distance services under contract for V/Line from Swan Hill to Mildura, Swan Hill to Bendigo and Mildura to Melbourne. [3] [6] In January 2015, it commenced operating services for NSW TrainLink from Dubbo to Lithgow, Nyngan, Lightning Ridge, Bourke, Brewarrina and Broken Hill. [7] [8]
Containers are dispatched to Melbourne from a terminal at Merbein (north of the station) operated by Seaway Intermodal [7] which handles approximately 13000 export containers a year, as well as 500 import containers. [8] Cement was also despatched to Mildura from Waurn Ponds (near Geelong) until 2016, oil and LCL containers were carried until ...
As part of the Victorian Transport Plan, the State Government announced passenger rail services on the Mildura line would be reintroduced up to Maryborough, with services beginning in 2010. [20] [21] The service is timetabled to operate as a shuttle between Ballarat Station and Maryborough Station. Currently, two return services are operated ...