Night train route
Melbourne XPT
Sydney → Melbourne · Australia
Melbourne XPT in pictures
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- Distance
- 960 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 11 h
- Average speed
- 87 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- NSW TrainLink
- Train
- XPT (HST derivative)
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1982
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Australia’s InterCity 125 cousin runs the overnight between its two biggest rivals, cricket ashes optional.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19744551 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 81 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 21 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of T9
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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