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 Rail Map of Central Victoria and Melbourne region Bendigo area rail map Portsea ferry Queenscliff - Sorrento Car Ferry Hoys - Shepparton to Melbourne timetable V/Line - Melbourne to Albury Timetables V/Line - Melbourne to Geelong and South Geelong timetables V/Line - Melbourne - Sunbury - Bendigo timetable French Island - Phillip Island - Stony Point ferry timetable Tramway Museum Society of Victoria TT-Line Spirit of Tasmania Ferry TT-Line Spirit of Tasmania Ferry Bayside Trains - Frankston to Stony Point timetables V/Line - Melbourne to Warragul, Traralgon and Sale timetables GSR - West Coast Railway - Melbourne to Warrnambool timetable V/Line - Melbourne to Bacchus Marsh and Ballarat timetables V/Line - Melbourne to Seymour timetables Yarra Valley Tourist Railway Victorian Goldfields Railway South Gippsland Railway Puffing Billy Railway Mornington Peninsula Railway Melbourne Tramcar Preservation Association (Haddon) Coal Creek Village (Korumburra) Rail map of Western Victoria and SA Rail map of Eastern Victoria and Southern NSW Rail map of Eastern Victoria and Southern NSW Rail map of Western Victoria and SA Rail map of Western Victoria and SA Rail and Ferry map of Tasmania and Bass Strait Central Highlands Tourist Railway (Daylesford) Bellarine Peninsula Railway Ballarat Tramway Museum Melbourne Metropolitain rail map

Map M2 - Central Victoria and Port Phillip Bay

A V/Line Sprinter train from Bendigo runs through Diggers Rest station en route to Melbourne. (Map Ref B3).
This map covers the region in the central part of the State of Victoria surrounding the city of Melbourne. The terrain varies from undulating to hilly in the north where the Great Dividing Range runs east-west, to a flat volcanic plain upon which the City of Melbourne sits, down to sandy beaches on the South Coast. The region sits at about 37 degrees from the Equator - equivalent to San Franciso, Washington DC, Seville (Spain) and Palermo (Italy). The climate is quite benign - with extreme high temperatures above 40 degrees being experienced only in January and February, whilst snowfalls are limited in the peak of winter to the highlands beyond the Eastern edge of this map.

This area is long-distance commuter country. Trains are operated principally by V/Line. It is easily possible to make day-trips by train from Melbourne to anywhere on this map. All services are relatively high speed and efficient, with numerous services being offered every day. All trains are either locomotive hauled or operated by modern diesel railcar and because of the shorter distances, they generally offer only economy class travel and do not have buffet services, but all are air-conditioned and heated and are quite comfortable. All V/Line services operate to and from Melbourne's Spencer Street station. V/Line trains run south-westward from Melbourne to and from Geelong and South Geelong, westward to Ballan, Bacchus Marsh and Ballarat, north-westward to Sunbury, Kyneton (and beyond to Bendigo, Swan Hill and Echuca) northward to Donnybrook and Seymour (and beyond to Albury) and south-eastward to Warragul and Traralgon (and beyond to Sale).

In addition to V/Line, other trains are operated by West Coast Railway to the south-west between Melbourne and Warrnambool, and you can use these trains to travel to Geelong, Winchelsea and Birregurra. Diesel-hauled trains are operated every 2 hours in the south by "M>Train" between Frankston and Stony Point, connecting with suburban electric trains at Frankston in the north and ferries to French Island and Phillip Island at Stony Point.

There are many tourist railways in this region. The most famous and Australia's first tourist railway is "Puffing Billy" which every day runs an intensive narrow-gauge steam-hauled railway between Belgrave and Gembrook through wonderfully scenic temperate rainforest country to the east of Melbourne. The South Gippsland Railway run regular Sunday historic railcar services between Nyora, Korumburra and Leongatha in the south-east. The Mornington Peninsula Railway, which runs only on occasional weekends, operate steam or diesel hauled trains between Moorooduc and Mornington in the south. The Bellarine Peninsula Railway regularly operate Sunday steam and diesel railcar services from Queenscliff to Laker's Siding and Drysdale. In the west at Haddon is the Melbourne Tramcar Preservation Society who have a museum of ex-Melbourne trams. This is not normally open to the public however. In the suburbs of Ballarat is a tiny fragment of that city's former tramway network now operated by the Ballarat Tramway Museum on weekends offering rides on historic electric trams.

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Eastern Victoria Eastern and Northern Victoria Tasmania Western Victoria Western and Northern Victoria Puffing Billy Railway Puffing Billy Railway Albury line Ballarat Line Ballarat Line The Overland Gippsland Line Melbourne - North-Western Suburbs Melbourne- South Western Suburbs Melbourne - Central area Melbourne - North-Eastern Suburbs Stony Point to Frankston Line Melbourne - Eastern Suburbs Spirit of Tasmania Ferry Central Highlands Tourist Railway South Gippsland Railway Puffing Billy Railway Bellarine Peninsula Railway Castlemaine & Maldon Railway Tramway Museum Society of Victoria Yarra Valley Tourist Railway Queenscliff Ferry French Island Ferry Bendigo Line Geelong Line