{"id":348962,"date":"2026-01-14T16:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=348962"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:21:44","slug":"trains-return-to-the-bendigo-line-after-closure-caused-by-a-major-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=348962","title":{"rendered":"Trains return to the Bendigo Line after closure caused by a major fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=bendigo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bendigo\">Bendigo<\/a> Line reopens today after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=346487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Damage to Bendigo Railway Line revealed\">suspended for several days after the recent bushfires<\/a> crossed the rail line and damaged infrastructure along a 5.7km section of track between Ravenswood and Castlemaine, including a partial bridge collapse at Harcourt.<\/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=\"722\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"348963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAA_75K-722x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAA_75K-722x1024.jpeg 722w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAA_75K-211x300.jpeg 211w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAA_75K-768x1090.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAA_75K-1083x1536.jpeg 1083w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAA_75K.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"348966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOubQAUonLK-732x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOubQAUonLK-732x1024.jpeg 732w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOubQAUonLK-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOubQAUonLK-768x1075.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOubQAUonLK-1098x1536.jpeg 1098w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOubQAUonLK.jpeg 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"348965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbYAAeUnx-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbYAAeUnx-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbYAAeUnx-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbYAAeUnx-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbYAAeUnx.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"348964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAIWTru-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAIWTru-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAIWTru-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAIWTru-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G-k8hOxbQAIWTru.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Great to see trains running again on this major trunk line.  Sadly on a poorer note, V\/line stopped running trains on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=echuca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Echuca\">Echuca<\/a> and Swan Hill lines stranding people when fires were not affecting those lines in any way.  A very lazy operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great to see trains running again on this major trunk line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":348965,"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":[10852,9941,18954,993,8],"class_list":["post-348962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-bendigo","tag-echuca","tag-harcourt","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348962","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=348962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348975,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348962\/revisions\/348975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}