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Tarneit railway station is located on the Deer Park - West Werribee line in
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. It serves the western
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suburb of
Tarneit Tarneit () is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Melbourne City Centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. ...
, and it opened on 14 June 2015.Tarneit
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Forming part of the
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, the project of which the station was built as part of, the station was officially opened by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, and the
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Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development,
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, with services commencing on 21 June 2015. It quickly became the second-busiest
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station on their network, after
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. The station will eventually become part of the metropolitan railway network under the
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, announced by the Andrews State Government in 2018.


Platforms and services

Tarneit has two
side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...
s. It is serviced by
V/Line V/Line is a statutory authority that operates regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia. It provides passenger train services on five commuter lines and eight long-distance routes from its major hub at Southern Cross ...
Geelong line and selected Warrnambool line services. Platform 1: * services to
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* weekend services to Southern Cross Platform 2: * services to
Wyndham Vale Wyndham Vale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Wyndham Vale recorded a population of 20,518 at the . The suburb of Ma ...
,
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and
Waurn Ponds Waurn Ponds is a mainly residential southern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The suburb is bounded by Rossack Drive, Princes Highway, the Geelong to Warrnambool railway, Reservoir Road, Draytons Road, Pigdons Road, Deakin University and ...
* weekend services to
Warrnambool Warrnambool ( Maar: ''Peetoop'' or ''Wheringkernitch'' or ''Warrnambool'') is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 35,743. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambool (Al ...


Transport links

CDC Melbourne CDC Melbourne is a bus operator in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It operates 55 bus routes under contract to Public Transport Victoria. It is a subsidiary of ComfortDelGro Australia. As at 2018, CDC Melbourne was the third-largest commuter b ...
operates eight bus routes to and from Tarneit station, under contract to
Public Transport Victoria Public Transport Victoria (PTV) is the brand name for public transport in the Australian state of Victoria, Australia, Victoria. It was the trading name of the Go Public Transport Development Authority (PTDA), a now-defunct statutory authorit ...
: *: to Williams Landing station *: to Williams Landing station *: to Williams Landing station *: to Hoppers Crossing station *: to Hoppers Crossing station *: to Werribee station *: to Werribee station *: to Werribee station


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Rail Geelong gallery
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