UPDATE: 08:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Saturday 10 January, there will be significant impacts to the Bendigo, Echuca, Swan Hill and Albury lines due to bushfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No V\/Line train or replacement coach services will be operating to Bendigo, Echuca, Swan Hill or Albury so please avoid travel on these lines.
Scheduled coaches connecting to stations on these lines that are still operating will not connect to a train or replacement service. Select coach services may be cancelled at short notice or may not service select stops due to road closures or emergency services requests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A very limited number of replacement coaches will be running between Southern Cross and Kyneton (not stopping at Footscray and Watergardens).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Across the rest of the V\/Line network, most V\/Line train and coach services will resume on Saturday 10 January but there may continue to be changes to some services that operate near fire activity as the situation is constantly evolving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ballarat Line: <\/strong>Train services will run as scheduled. Note that coaches replace evening trains between Southern Cross and Wendouree as part of planned works. Note there will be no coaches replacements for these services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bendigo Line:<\/strong> Train services will continue to be suspended. Geelong Line: <\/strong>Train services will run as scheduled. Note coaches replace evening trains between Southern Cross and Waurn Ponds as part of planned works. Traralgon Line: <\/strong>Train services will continue to operate between East Pakenham and Traralgon in accordance with planned works in the metropolitan area. Seymour Line:<\/strong> Train services are scheduled to run but due to fire activity in the region, services may be suspended at short notice. Check before you travel. The following coach services will not run:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The following coach services will not service Westmere, Streatham, Skipton, Linton, Scarsdale and Smythesdale on Saturday 10 January:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The following coach services will not service Euroa on Saturday 10 January:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The following coach service will run 60 minutes delayed on Saturday, 10 January:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Across the rest of the V\/Line network, most V\/Line train and coach services will resume on Saturday 10 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":154910,"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":[35,47,186],"tags":[10852,993,8],"class_list":["post-346219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-bendigo","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346219","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=346219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346220,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346219\/revisions\/346220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Maryborough Line:<\/strong> Train services will run as scheduled.
Ararat Line: <\/strong>The services listed below will not operate Saturday, 10 January. All other Ararat train services are scheduled to run but due to fire activity in the region, services may be suspended at short notice. Check before you travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Bendigo, Echuca and Swan Hill<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A limited number of replacement coaches will run between Southern Cross and Kyneton (not stopping at Footscray and Watergardens). Coaches will not operate between Kyneton and Bendigo.
To city <\/em>– coaches will then run at 5:00am, 6:06am then every hour to 10.06pm with the last service departing at 11.41pm.
From city<\/em> \u2013 coaches will depart Southern Cross at 6.25am and run every hour until midnight.
Echuca Line:<\/strong> Train services are suspended.
Swan Hill Line:<\/strong> Train services are suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGeelong and Warrnambool<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Warrnambool Line:<\/strong> Train services will run as scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTraralgon and Bairnsdale<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Bairnsdale Line: <\/strong>Train services will continue to operate between East Pakenham and Bairnsdale in accordance to the occupation timetable.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSeymour, Shepparton and Albury<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Shepparton Line: <\/strong>Train services are scheduled to run but due to fire activity in the region, services may be suspended at short notice. Check before you travel.
Albury Line: <\/strong>Train services will continue to be suspended. Replacement coach services will not be running.
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