{"id":268550,"date":"2025-08-18T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268550"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:38:29","slug":"extra-v-line-services-for-traralgon-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268550","title":{"rendered":"Extra V\/Line services for Traralgon Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the completion of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=gippsland-line-upgrade\" title=\"\">Gippsland Line Upgrade<\/a>, a new timetable will start on the Traralgon Line from Sunday 14 September.<br><br>87 new train services will be added each week, giving passengers better frequency and more choice of when to travel.<br><br>Trains will run around every 40 minutes between Melbourne and Traralgon from 8am to 9pm, seven days a week.<br><br>There will also be some minor changes to the Bairnsdale Line timetable as well as changes to some coach services that connect with trains.<br><br>On the Bendigo Line, more weekend trains will run with six carriages and more direct and extended services will run between Southern Cross, Epsom, Eaglehawk and Echuca.<br><br><strong>What\u2019s changing?<\/strong><br><br><strong>Traralgon and Bairnsdale lines\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>87 new train services per week on the Gippsland Line between Melbourne and Traralgon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>55 new services will be added across weekdays (11 every weekday) and 32 new services across weekends (14 on Saturdays and 18 on Sundays).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trains will run around every 40 minutes between Melbourne and Traralgon from 8am to 9pm, seven days a week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All Sunday Sale services will now start and end in Bairnsdale.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There will be journey time changes for some services.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On Sundays, the 10:23 am train from Southern Cross Station to Sale will now extend to Bairnsdale and leave at 12:23 pm. Passengers who catch the 10:23 am Sunday train beyond Traralgon will need to catch the later train at 12:23 pm. A new train service will run from Southern Cross Station to Traralgon 10:23 am.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Berwick school trains will continue to run, stopping once in the morning and afternoon on school days. The afternoon train will depart at 4:00 pm instead of 4:17 pm.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some coach services will have new timetables to better connect with trains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bendigo Line<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>14 busy weekend services will change from 3-car VLocity trains to 6-car VLocity trains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A new service will depart Epsom at 7:32 pm and arrive at Southern Cross Station at 9:51 pm. The service will operate on weekdays, giving passengers in Epsom a new evening service to Melbourne.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The 11:20 pm weekday shuttle from Epsom to Bendigo will be removed. Passengers can catch the new 7:32 pm Epsom to Southern Cross Station service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The 10:06 am weekday service from Southern Cross Station to Bendigo will now travel to Eaglehawk.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The 11:06 am weekday Southern Cross Station to Eaglehawk service will run direct to Echuca, no longer stopping at Eaglehawk. This will give passengers in Echuca a new one-seat journey that\u2019s faster.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Passengers who usually catch the 11:06 am weekday Southern Cross Station to Eaglehawk service will need to travel an hour earlier at 10:06 am.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vline.com.au\/sep-2025-timetables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">To view the timetables click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will also be some minor changes to the Bairnsdale Line timetable as well as changes to some coach services that connect with trains.<\/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":[47,186],"tags":[10260,993,11146,8],"class_list":["post-268550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-gippsland-line-upgrade","tag-melbourne","tag-traralgon","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268550","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=268550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268582,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268550\/revisions\/268582"}],"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=268550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}