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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.
The Geelong-Ballarat-Bendigo Rail Link is a proposed railway project that would link Victoria's three largest regional cities and provide rail access to the towns of Bannockburn, Lethbridge, Meredith, Lal Lal, Carisbrook, Newstead, Harcourt, and Golden Square. a study was commissioned in 2012.
In 1994, V/Line passenger rail services beyond Ballarat were withdrawn to allow for the conversion of the line beyond Ararat to standard gauge. [20] The Serviceton−Ararat section, now standard gauge, was connected to a section of the Portland line , which in turn connected to the Maroona −Gheringhap line, both also converted to standard ...
The original promise was for trains to run to Geelong in 45 minutes, Ballarat in 60 minutes, Bendigo in 80 minutes, and Traralgon in 90 minutes. [30] However, this was soon changed to add four minutes to each journey. In the 2007 V/Line timetables, it takes the Traralgon service 111 minutes to the city. [37]
V/Line rail ticket: standard V/Line conductor issued ticket with GTS code marked on it; V/Line rail ticket with GTS travel included. The myki smartcard ticketing system was introduced on four Geelong bus routes in December 2008, [10] and on 2 March 2009 all Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula bus routes were switched to myki. [2]
It is the second most-used regional rail service in Victoria (behind the Geelong service), carrying 4.68 million passengers in the 2022-23 financial year. [1] The Ararat V/Line rail service extends further west from Wendouree to Ararat, while the Maryborough V/Line rail service is operated as a shuttle from Ballarat along the Mildura line to ...
CDC Geelong operates seven bus routes via Geelong station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: [13] 1 : North Shore station – Deakin University Waurn Ponds Campus [14] 19 : Geelong – Bannockburn [15] 20 : to Corio Shopping Centre [16] 22 : to North Shore station [17] 24 : to North Geelong station [18] 25 : to Bell Post Hill [19]
Metro Trains Melbourne operates suburban passenger services along the inner section of the line as far as Werribee, while V/Line operates the Geelong and the Warrnambool services. For 11 years, from 19 September 1993 until 31 August 2004, the Melbourne to Warrnambool passenger service was run by the private West Coast Railway company.