{"id":919690,"date":"2026-07-08T00:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/919690\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T00:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:17:33","slug":"telstra-outage-brings-victorian-regional-rail-network-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/919690\/","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,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

a spokesperson said.Regional commuters thrown by train outage<\/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

Tobi Harris from Briagolong, in Gippsland, said she was stuck on a train at Sale for an hour and 45 minutes and was unable to attend TAFE at Warragul.<\/p>\n

“I’m kind of missing out on all the introductions, meeting new people, connecting with people, connecting with my teachers and stuff like that, so it’s been a bit of a day,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I travel on the V-Line quite often so I’ve experienced actually quite a few of these delays, we’ve got tradies that go on the trains in the morning, we’ve got people going to interviews, people going to their jobs and uni.”<\/p>\n

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Tobu Harris said she was stuck on a train at Sale for an hour and 45 minutes on Wednesday morning. (ABC News: Jack Franco Colantuono)<\/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

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Anurag Sharma couldn’t take passengers in his taxi in Ballarat as his meter wouldn’t work due to the Telstra outage.\u00a0 (ABC News: Eden Hynninen)<\/p>\n

Ballarat taxi driver Anurag Sharma said he would normally be busy with so many people needing alternative transport, but the Telstra outage meant he couldn’t take passengers.<\/p>\n

“I dropped a few people and they can’t pay me so I said don’t worry about the money. I can’t run the meter,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m just sitting around now, just wasting time. But that’s what it is, we can’t do anything.”<\/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":3,"featured_media":919691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,19615,27697,611,50,371279,6228,46981,371232,25972,357637],"class_list":["post-919690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-commuters","tag-disruption","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-radio-network-fault","tag-service","tag-telstra","tag-telstra-outage","tag-train","tag-vline"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116881487968829979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}