{"id":404729,"date":"2026-04-13T16:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404729"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:20:17","slug":"geelong-commuters-told-to-brace-for-extended-travel-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404729","title":{"rendered":"Geelong commuters told to brace for extended travel times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Travel might be free but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=geelong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Geelong\">Geelong<\/a> commuters will have a longer and disrupted journey throughout April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheduled maintenance and upgrade work on the Geelong line will add an additional 40 minutes to regular travel times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The routine works occur annually, typically in line with the April school holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Saturday 11 April to Friday 24 April coaches will replace all trains between Wyndham Vale and Waurn Ponds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travellers heading into Melbourne will transfer to a V\/Line service at Wyndham Vale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional changes will impact late trains from Sunday 12 April to Tuesday 14 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evening trains, from 8.30pm until the last service each night, will be replaced by coaches for the entire journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An updated timetable both city and Geelong bound can be found on V\/Line\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travel on all Victorian public transport remains free until April 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheduled maintenance and upgrade work on the Geelong line will add an additional 40 minutes to regular travel times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":154908,"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":[4598,8],"class_list":["post-404729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-geelong","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404729","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=404729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404730,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404729\/revisions\/404730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}