Gippsland railway line

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Gippsland line
Overview
Status	Operational from Flinders Street to Bairnsdale, closed beyond Bairnsdale
Owner	VicTrack
Locale	Victoria, Australia
Termini	Flinders Street Bairnsdale (previously Orbost)
Service
Services	Bairnsdale Cranbourne Pakenham Traralgon
Operator(s)	Passenger: Metro Trains, V/Line Freight: Multiple
History
Commenced	1877; 147 years ago (1877)
Completed	1916; 108 years ago (1916)
Technical
Number of tracks	Double track between Melbourne and Bunyip, and between Longwarry and Moe, single track between Bunyip and Longwarry and beyond Moe (passing loops at Hernes Oak, and at Morwell, Traralgon and Sale stations)
Track gauge	1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Electrification	1500 V DC overhead between Flinders Street and East Pakenham
Route map Legend km City Loop via Southern Cross 0.00 Flinders Street 0.35 Princes Bridge City Loop via Parliament Hurstbridge and Mernda lines to Hurstbridge and Mernda 2.40 Richmond Belgrave, Lilydale and Glen Waverley lines to Belgrave, Lilydale and Glen Waverley CityLink Yarra River 4.20 South Yarra Sandringham line to Sandringham Metro Tunnel to Sunbury 5.40 Hawksburn 6.70 Toorak 7.40 Armadale 8.90 Malvern 10.60 Caulfield Frankston line to Frankston 12.30 Carnegie 13.20 Murrumbeena Outer Circle line to Fairfield 14.20 Hughesdale Rosstown Railway to Elsternwick 15.40 Oakleigh 17.00 Huntingdale 19.20 Clayton 21.40 Westall 23.30 Springvale Spring Vale Cemetery line to Spring Vale Cemetery 24.40 Sandown Park 25.10 Noble Park Mile Creek 27.80 Yarraman EastLink Yarraman Creek 30.00 Dandenong Dandenong Creek Cranbourne line to Cranbourne Eumemmering Creek 33.80 General Motors South Gippsland Freeway 36.20 Hallam Troups Creek 39.50 Narre Warren Princes Freeway 43.40 Berwick Cardinia Creek 45.80 Beaconsfield 50.20 Officer Gum Scrub Creek 54.60 Cardinia Road Toomuc Creek 56.90 Pakenham 58.80 East Pakenham Princes Freeway Pakenham East Depot 63.40 Nar Nar Goon 69.50 Tynong 72.66 Garfield 77.90 Bunyip 82.30 Longwarry 90.99 Drouin Princes Freeway 101.76 Warragul Noojee line to Noojee 104.20 Nilma 108.50 Darnum 114.20 Yarragon 122.30 Trafalgar Walhalla line to Walhalla 132.22 Moe Yallourn line (second) to Yallourn Thorpdale line to Thorpdale 140.00 Hernes Oak Yallourn line (first) to Yallourn Yallourn 900mm Railway to Hazelwood – to Yallourn Mirboo North line to Mirboo North 146.37 Morwell 148.30 Maryvale Princes Freeway 160.07 Traralgon Maffra line to Stratford 167.00 Loy Yang 173.80 Flynn 182.36 Rosedale 192.30 Kilmany 199.70 Fulham 208.02 Sale 218.00 Montgomery Maffra line to Traralgon Stratford Junction 224.10 Stratford 233.40 Munro 246.20 Fernbank 257.50 Lindenow 262.90 Hillside 276.84 Bairnsdale Bairnsdale Wharf spur 286.60 Nicholson 296.10 Bumberrah 303.90 Mossiface 306.30 Bruthen 321.40 Colquhoun 336.10 Nowa Nowa 345.80 Tostaree 358.80 Waygara 372.60 Orbost km This diagram: view talk edit

The Gippsland railway line (formerly known as the Orbost railway line) is a railway line serving the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia. It runs east from the state capital Melbourne through Warragul, Moe, Morwell, Traralgon, Sale and terminating at Bairnsdale.

Prior to its dismantling in 1994, the line extended to Orbost. The dismantled section now comprises the East Gippsland Rail Trail, a shared bicycle, walking, and horseriding track.^[1]