Reopening Railway Stations

Feasibility Assessment

 

VLine currently operates passenger rail services on 7 routes throughout Victoria as listed below:-

 

Each of these services includes stops at various towns located along the routes while there are other towns along the routes where trains do not stop.  Stopping patterns along each route vary considerably, with some stations often expressed and others frequently stopped at.

 

As there is no published patronage information for the various stations, it is assumed that one of the main criteria which determines the level of service to each town located along each route is the population of each town.

 

The tables below compare the population of towns along each line with the number of services that stop at each station.  Note that where large towns have multiple stations, the total population of the large town has been divided evenly amongst the multiple stations.  The tables also include stations located on the routes which are not currently used.  (Note that the tables are based on 2005 service levels.)

 

Melbourne to Bairnsdale

Station

Weekly services

Population

People per Service

Nar Nar Goon

102

607

6.0

Tynong

102

335

3.3

Garfield

105

703

6.7

Bunyip

102

1106

10.8

Longwarry

105

641

6.1

Drouin

146

5815

39.8

Warragul

161

10437

64.8

Nilma

0

<100

N/A

Darnum

0

316

N/A

Yarragon

113

707

6.3

Trafalgar

113

2279

20.2

Moe

139

15387

110.7

Morwell

139

13527

97.3

Traralgon

139

19614

141.1

Rosedale

41

1042

25.4

Sale

41

12854

313.5

Stratford

28

1330

47.5

Lindenow

0

303

N/A

Bairnsdale

28

10667

381.0

 

Melbourne to Albury

Station

Weekly services

Population

People per Service

Craigieburn

142

13944

98.2

Donnybrook

131

<100

N/A

Beveridge

0

<100

N/A

Wallan

114

3955

34.7

Wandong

96

683

7.1

Heathcote Junction

96

683

7.1

Kilmore East

116

3632

31.3

Broadford

116

2657

22.9

Tallarook

96

291

3.0

Seymour

166

6441

38.8

Avenal

18

552

30.7

Euroa

39

2710

69.5

Violet Town

28

593

21.2

Benalla

39

8614

220.9

Glenrowan

0

348

N/A

Wangaratta

39

16342

419.0

Springhurst

28

165

5.9

Chiltern

28

1039

37.1

Barnawartha

0

531

N/A

Wodonga

39

28160

722.1

Albury

39

42458

1088.7

 

Note that the listed populations for Wandong and Heathcote Junction are half the combined population which appears in the “Know Your Area” website.  Also note that the listed population for Kilmore East is based on the population for nearby Kilmore.

 

Seymour to Shepparton

Station

Weekly services

Population

People per Service

Nagambie

26

1409

54.2

Murchison East

26

672

25.8

Arcadia

0

288

N/A

Mooroopna

26

6877

264.5

Shepparton

26

28951

1113.5

 

Note that the listed population for Murchison East is based on the population for nearby Murchison.

 

Melbourne to Echuca

Station

Weekly services

Population

People per Service

Diggers Rest

161

1801

11.2

Sunbury

253

25156

99.4

Clarkefield

56

<100

N/A

Riddells Creek

112

2265

20.2

Gisborne

159

5290

33.3

Macedon

116

1419

12.2

Woodend

183

3017

16.5

Kyneton

189

4121

21.8

Malmsbury

28

494

17.6

Taradale

0

174

N/A

Castlemaine

135

8287

61.4

Harcourt

0

422

N/A

Kangaroo Flat

14

22905

1636.1

Bendigo

135

22905

169.7

Elmore

3

665

221.7

Rochester

3

2624

874.7

Echuca

4

10955

2738.8

 

Bendigo to Swan Hill

Station

Weekly services

Population

People per Service

Eaglehawk

29

22905

789.8

Raywood

0

134

N/A

Dingee

14

<100

N/A

Mitiamo

0

100

N/A

Pyramid

14

498

35.6

Kerang

14

3719

265.6

Lake Boga

0

679

N/A

Swan Hill

14

9771

697.9

 

Melbourne to Ararat

Station

Weekly services

Population

People per Service

Ardeer

110

2741

24.9

Deer Park

110

12664

115.1