Victoria's Massive Regional Rail Revival Program

In recent times, Victoria has embarked on a massive programme to renew and improve its regional rail network. All these improvements are being done under the single name Project Regional Rail Revival, which is currently over 4 billion. This video will explain every part of this project.

0:00 Intro
3:20 Warrnambool Line
4:08 Geelong Line
5:57 Ballarat/Ararat Line
7:21 Bendigo, Swan Hill, Echuca
8:14 Shepparton Line
8:56 North East Line
9:50 Gippsland Line
10:44 Why RRR matters
12:36 Outro

[KhanPiesseONE]

Would honestly love an RMTransit style channel except exclusively about Australia. This video was great!

[tucoramirez]

You should have seen Victoria's 'Regional Rail' before the 1960's. It is a skeleton of what it once was. You could once take a train to Queenscliff on the coast, to the mountains of Mansfield for snow skiing as well as Bright. Port Fairy, Mildura and Lake's Entrance to just mention a couple of places.

[_slj]

Wow, Tom Ouyen I absolutely love this video. Thank you!

[ChrisHinkleman-pwxu]

It's amazing to come from America (and think that I'm from the zenith of development), and find something far more advanced in Victoria...

[Mark-ubf]

I would love to see the south Gippsland line departing out of Cranbourne updated and reopened. I miss that old line.

[JamesCook-]

I think it’s worth noting that the most of these lines are no more than about 250km long, across relatively flat terrain. In NSW the only destinations within this radius that are underserved are Canberra, Bathurst and Orange. All of the other large population centres (outside Newcastle and Wollongong which are already well served by the electric train network) are much further away, across challenging terrain with poor existing alignments. So although it would be great to see investment in regional rail in NSW, it’s simply not going to return the same bang for your buck as in Victoria. Other states face the same difficulties to an even greater extent, at least on the population front.

[f.]

to be fair Geelong is pretty much part of the Melbourne Metropolitan Area

[lmlmd]

Really good overview - must admit, Victoria has really gone above and beyond with regional rail. The Ballrat and Geelong frequencies are amazing. Even in Europe, that'd be considered a solid service. Alas, it pales in comparison to the awesomeness that is NSW trains, with our Bathurst bullet. TWO WHOLE TRAINS A DAY, with a BUS to take you onwards to Orange. Beat that, Victoria! We're not jealous *sobs*

[Secretlyanothername]

This was a great video. Just a minor thing; Gippsland has a G like Gambier or gorge, not Germany.

[alisonnewman]

Great video! Appreciate the coverage of regional Victorian projects, those are overlooked a lot. Having been down there myself, the Avon River bridge is great - we need more like it, and it makes the train journey there a lot quicker and easier. If only they'd extend the platform at Rosedale, but oh well.

[reecemartin]

Great video! I learned a lot about the regional services all in less than 15 minutes!

[audigex]

The VLocity units are capable of 210 km/h (130 mph), they're just limited by the infrastructure. So there's no reason the lines *couldn't* be upgraded

[BJPCameron]

Gr8 work. I love when you say “significant”.

[Majenta_Turkeysandvichs]

I have been looking for a good channel that covers Australian Rail for ages. You, good sir, have just earned a subscriber :)

[djackmanson]

They can do whatever they like to the Gippsland line, but until there's dedicated track for VLine trains between Caulfield and Pakenham, regional trains will keep getting stuck behind Metro services. I commuted from Moe to Melbourne for a couple of years and could never rely on being in the city for a 7.30am start, despite the timetable saying I should be able to.

[bushranger]

The trouble with the Bendigo line is thirty years ago, it was double track ALL the way to Bendigo, then some bright spark, decided in their "wisdom" to just have it double track to Kyneton, and then single track to Bendigo, for six months that line only had trains going to Kyneton, and busses to Bendigo, while the track was being ripped up, and replaced with one track, with some strategically placed passing loops, as such travel times actually increased, because of these stupid delays. and now under this "plan" they still aren't really going to fix their mistake of 30 years. Castlemaine was the only station that has actually kept it's three platforms active, (the third being the old Maryborough service, now used by VGR on their excursion trains to Maldon)

[chiliphil]

When is the high-speed rail link between Melbourne and Sydney gonna start. We need it

[adelaideonthego]

Good to see someone discussing things like this. Few improvements to be made to make it more professional but I’m thoroughly enjoying your work!

[CBTransportVideos]

Amazing Video! Thank you So much for this! Being from Melbourne, I will indeed Miss the loco hauled trains, But as the times go, so does the old stuff. Once again Thanks for this video! Cleared up alot of stuff!

[debshipard]

Would be good if they put passengers back on the Wimmera and Mildura lines. They are the ones who would really benefit