{"id":181308,"date":"2025-03-02T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T01:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181308"},"modified":"2025-03-02T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T01:46:36","slug":"v-line-adds-extra-services-and-more-weekend-travel-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181308","title":{"rendered":"V\/Line adds extra services and more weekend travel options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re introducing a new timetable from mid-April, with 50 new or extended weekend services being added across the Ballarat, Ararat, Warrnambool and Bendigo lines<br>\u00a0<br>Ballarat Line passengers will get 33 extra services, with trains running every 40 minutes on weekends between 8am and 9pm.<br>\u00a0<br>On the Ararat Line, eight new weekend services will be added, with two new return services on Saturdays and Sundays, including a 9.15pm Saturday service from Southern Cross.<br>\u00a0<br>Five new weekend services will be added to the Bendigo Line, including late-night trains from Melbourne to Bendigo.<br>\u00a0<br>Warrnambool Line passengers will benefit from five daily weekend return services and also get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=142689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Warrnambool \u2013 V\/Line to trash your long distance rail service\">modern and reliable VLocity trains on all services<\/a>.<br>\u00a0<br>These latest services are part of the Victorian Government\u2019s commitment to deliver almost 200 extra weekend services, which are being rolled out progressively across our network.<br>\u00a0<br>Two Geelong Line trains will also be extended through to Waurn Ponds Station every weekday morning, giving passengers in Waurn Ponds more travel options.<br>\u00a0<br>The new Ballarat, Ararat and Bendigo line timetables start on 13 April with the Warrnambool line timetable starting on 14 April.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>All new timetables will be available to view on the V\/Line website from 14 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballarat Line passengers will get 33 extra services, with trains running every 40 minutes on weekends between 8am and 9pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":181309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10073,47,186],"tags":[4239,993,8],"class_list":["post-181308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myki","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-ballarat","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181310,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181308\/revisions\/181310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}