page_title: Geelong V/Line rail service
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Geelong V/Line rail service / Services
caption_attribution_description: V/Line train crossing the Breakwater Bridge - Geelong, Victoria, Australia
context_page_description: The Geelong line is a regional passenger rail service operated by V/Line in Victoria, Australia. It serves passengers between state capital Melbourne and the regional city of Geelong.
  According to V/Line it carries more passengers than any other regional rail line in Australia.
context_section_description: Services on the Geelong line operate to a variety of stopping patterns during the weekday peak, to a frequency of 6 to 36 minutes depending on the station. Services may originate or terminate at Wyndham Vale, Geelong, South Geelong, Marshall or Waurn Ponds.
  Outside the peak period, services operate to a 20-minute frequency, alternating between two stopping patterns:
  from Waurn Ponds, stopping all to North Shore, then express to Lara, then to Wyndham Vale, then stopping all to Deer Park, then express to Sunshine, then to Footscray, then to Southern Cross (and the reverse);
  from South Geelong, stopping all to North Geelong, then express to Corio, then stopping all to Deer Park, then express to Sunshine, then to Footscray, then to Southern Cross (and the reverse).
  During the weekends, services operate to a 40-minute frequency, stopping at all stations between Waurn Ponds and Deer Park, and express from Deer Park to Sunshine, then to Footscray, then to Southern Cross. However, some services are filled by Warrnambool line services, which operates to different stopping patterns.
  Almost all services are run using VLocity railcars, but some Sprinters and locomotive-hauled N-class carriages are also used. 70-year-old S-class carriages were used until 2010.
  Prior to the opening of the Regional Rail Link, services ran every 20 minutes during weekdays and hourly later at night, with more frequent services during peak. Services operated every 40 minutes on weekends. In December 2013, after the opening of the first section between Southern Cross and South Kensington, Geelong trains no longer stopped at North Melbourne. From 21 June 2015, Geelong trains commenced running via the Deer Park–West Werribee line, no longer using the original line via Werribee and Newport.
caption: V/Line train crossing the Barwon River in Geelong
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