Travelling to Ballarat
Ballarat is situated approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes drive
from Melbourne via the Western Freeway.
Visitors arriving by air into Melbourne can continue onto
Ballarat by taking the Ballarat Airport Shuttle Bus, which runs a
number of daily services. Bookings are recommended.
V/Line runs
a number of trains daily to Ballarat from Melbourne's Southern
Cross (formerly Spencer Street) Station. Travel time is around one
and half hours but with the construction of the fast train network
on the Ballarat line this time has been reduced significantly for
peak usage trains. It takes approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes to
travel via train from Melbourne to Ballarat.
Ballarat Goldrush
The goldrush continues in Ballarat as a prospector found a
$120,000 nuggett in an ancient river bed just near Ballarat.
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