{"id":46072,"date":"2026-07-07T23:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/46072\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:39:12","slug":"telstra-outage-brings-victorian-regional-rail-network-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/46072\/","title":{"rendered":"Telstra outage brings Victorian regional rail network to a halt"},"content":{"rendered":"

All regional train services in Victoria have been suspended due to a radio network error linked to the nationwide Telstra outage.<\/p>\n

Services on the Bendigo, Seymour, Gippsland, Geelong and Ballarat lines were suspended on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

“The V\/Line network has been impacted by the nationwide Telstra outage,” a V\/Line spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“This has resulted in significant impacts to our passengers this morning with no trains able to run on the V\/Line network.”<\/p>\n

The nationwide Telstra outage left millions of Australians unable to make phone calls or access the internet.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

Dozens of passengers waited at Southern Cross Station in Melbourne for services to resume. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

It has also affected train services in several states.<\/p>\n

V\/Line said it was “assessing the situation and will advise when trains will resume”.<\/p>\n

The operator said there was “no estimated time for rectification at this stage”.<\/p>\n

Replacement coaches are operating from Southern Cross Station, but V\/Line said space on the coaches was “very limited”.<\/p>\n

“Passengers are advised to defer travel where possible,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Train passenger Simone said she was stuck on a train at Ballan, north-west of Melbourne.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The V\/Line staff don’t know about any [replacement] coaches or anything,” she told ABC Radio Melbourne.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been told Ballan doesn’t have any Ubers, taxis or anything like that, so we’re just stuck here until we get more information.”<\/p>\n

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A commuter checks their phone while waiting for V\/Line services to resume at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Gippsland resident Wendy Farmer was up early to catch the 5:59am train from Moe to Melbourne for a conference, but was now stuck at Warragul Station.<\/p>\n

“We can get off the train and just wait outside the station, but it’s pretty cold out there at the moment,” she said.<\/p>\n

Ms Farmer said V\/Line staff had advised commuters that if they could make their way to Pakenham, they could continue into the city on the metro train network.<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure how we’re going to get there. It’s a long walk!”<\/p>\n

“I just feel like saying, ‘Hey guys, I’m on Optus, you can borrow my phone for communication if you like.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All regional train services in Victoria have been suspended due to a radio network error linked to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10413,34599,260,29770,34600,1536,19326,34601,2737,2744],"class_list":["post-46072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-commuters","tag-disruption","tag-melbourne","tag-mobile","tag-radio-network-fault","tag-service","tag-telstra","tag-telstra-outage","tag-train","tag-vline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}