{"id":346487,"date":"2026-01-10T16:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=346487"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:40:13","slug":"damage-to-bendigo-railway-line-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=346487","title":{"rendered":"Damage to Bendigo Railway Line revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=harcourt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Harcourt\">Harcourt<\/a> fires now moving away from the toenship it can now be revealed some of the damaged caused by the fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these photos burnt and collapsed railway sleepers and perhaps bridge decking from the Victoria Road Railway Bridge in the township.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"346489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1734-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-346489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1734-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1734-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1734.jpeg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"346488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1733.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-346488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1733.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1733-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The state of the bridge is not known and crews will be required to assess the damage and undertake repairs probably taking days as V\/Line are not the fastest to get lines reopened. Some years ago the Bairnsdale Line was closed for months on end due to V\/Line not having a rail grinder for rail maintence, incredible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also been reported V\/Line are running a test train between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=bendigo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bendigo\">Bendigo<\/a> and Echuca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source of Photographs unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos burnt and collapsed railway sleepers and perhaps bridge decking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":346488,"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":[10852,12271,18954,993,8],"class_list":["post-346487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-bendigo","tag-bendigo-railway-line","tag-harcourt","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346487","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=346487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346490,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346487\/revisions\/346490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/346488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}