Classic route
Bairnsdale line
Melbourne → Bairnsdale · Australia
Across Gippsland from Melbourne: three VLocity trains a day pass the Latrobe Valley’s coal towns to Bairnsdale, reached by rail in 1888; beyond Sale the trains stopped in 1993 and returned in 2004.
- Distance
- 275 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 56 min
- Average speed
- 70 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmSouthern Cross +4
- 2 kmFlinders Street
- 4 kmRichmond
- 12 kmCaulfield
- 21 kmClayton
- 31 kmDandenong
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- 58 kmPakenham
- 66 kmNar Nar Goon
- 71 kmTynong
- 75 kmGarfield
- 79 kmBunyip
- 83 kmLongwarry
- 92 kmDrouin
- 100 kmWarragul
- 112 kmYarragon
- 120 kmTrafalgar
- 130 kmMoe
- 145 kmMorwell
- 158 kmTraralgon
- 181 kmRosedale
- 206 kmSale
- 222 kmStratford
- 275 kmBairnsdale
The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (V/Line, the Bairnsdale line on 16 November 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20219921: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via V/Line: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Bairnsdale–Melbourne train
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Bairnsdale line?
The Bairnsdale line runs 275 km from Melbourne to Bairnsdale.
How long does the Bairnsdale line take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 3 h 56 min for the 275 km. That is an average of 70 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Bairnsdale line?
V and Line, with VLocity DMU.
How old is the Bairnsdale line?
The line has been in service since 1888. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
How often does the Bairnsdale line run?
3× daily each way.
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