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The Regional Rail Link included two new stations to be served by Geelong V/Line trains: Tarneit and Wyndham Vale. Since its opening, overcrowding has become a persistent and chronic issue, especially at Tarneit, which is the most-used V/Line station other than Southern Cross .
Geelong has one island platform with two faces, and one side platform, and is served by V/Line Geelong and Warrnambool line trains. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Prior to the opening of the Regional Rail Link in 2015, almost all trains used Platform 1, and Platforms 2 and 3 were only used if Platform 1 was occupied:
As part of those works, the railway line between Waurn Ponds and South Geelong is being duplicated, [9] as well as the construction of a new maintenance and stabling facility. [10] Major works at the station were completed in January 2022, [ 11 ] with all station upgrades, including the second platform, in use by 31 May of that year.
Trains were only timed to cross there on special occasions, such as holiday periods. For example; on 24 December 1927, the 10.20 Warrnambool passenger service, due at South Geelong at 12.03, was due to cross the 09.35 passenger train from Camperdown, due at 12.02, and had to
This meant that three Sunday train services ran in both directions instead of two. [20] Following the timetable change in late August 2017, weekday Warrnambool trains no longer serve Wyndham Vale or Tarneit stations. In December 2018, due to a lack of available rolling stock, H carriages were used on the line past Geelong for the first time. [21]
Trains on the Werribee line run with a two three-car formation of Comeng, Siemens Nexas, and X'Trapolis 100 trainsets. [4] Part of the line initially opened in 1857 by the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company. The line was progressively finished within the next two years, allowing trains to travel from Melbourne to Geelong.
The station was reopened on 26 April 2005, [2] and was initially served by Warrnambool line trains only. From September 2005, Geelong line services were extended from South Geelong, and Marshall became the terminus for most Geelong-line trains.
When Lara station opened, it was the temporary terminus of the Geelong – Melbourne line. [3] The present station building was constructed in the 1920s, [3]: 152 and the existing single platform on the east side of the line was converted into an island platform in June 1981, when the line from Lara to Little River was duplicated.