Status as at Wednesday March 16
Public Transport is an essential service and at present, most metropolitan trams, buses and ferries across Australia are running.
Most long distance services are running to regular timetables but a few are suspended or curtailed.
Service status Indicators:
Services running as normal
Reduced services running OR services suspended but a planned date for return to service is near.
Services suspended and no early return date is advised.
No advice/unknown
Metropolitan Public Transport Services:
- Sydney
Trains - Services running to regular timetables- Metro - Services running to regular timetables
- Light Rail - Line L1 Has resumed on a 15 minute interval service. Lines L2 & L3 are running to SUNDAY timetable
- Ferries - running to normal schedules
- Buses - Services running to regular timetables
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- Melbourne
Trains - Normal timetables- Trams - Normal timetables
- Buses - Normal timetables
- Skybus Tullamarine Airport and AValon Airport to Melbourne City Express running. Other Skybus services remain suspended ie (Docklands/Southbank, St Kilda, Eastern, Peninsula, Western)
- Ferries St Kilda Ferry running Friday-Sunday only. Westgate Punt operating as normal.
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- Brisbane
Trains- Ferries
- Buses
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- Perth
Trains- Buses.
- Ferries
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- Adelaide
Trains normal except Gawler line is running as buses due to electrification works.- Trams - normal timetables
- Buses - normal timetables
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- Canberra
- Trams
- Buses
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- Hobart/Launceston
- Buses
- Skybus Hobart Airport service
- Ferry
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- Newcastle
Hunter Trains running to normal timetables- Trams
- Buses running to normal timetables
- Ferries
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- Darwin
- Buses
- Ferries
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- Gold Coast
- Trains
- Light Rail
- Buses -running to normal timetables.
- Ferries - HOPO
Long Distance country and Interstate services:
- NEW SOUTH WALES
- NSW Trainlink Trains Intercity train services are running to normal timetable
- NSW Trainlink Buses Connecting bus services are running to normal timetable
- The Indian Pacific all Indian Pacific journeys have been suspended until 10 March 2022
- Greyhound Buses Sydney to Canberra and Melbourne and Sydney to Brisbane have resumed
- Firefly Express Buses Sydney-Melbourne have resumed
- Sid Foggs coaches Newcastle to Dubbo resumed normal services May 13.
- New England coaches Tamworth to Warwick and Tamworth to Coffs Harbour PERMANENTLY CANCELLED effective April 30 2021.
- Murrays Coaches Canberra-Sydney services have resumed
- Murrays Coaches Canberra-Narooma, Canberra-Wollongong
- Murrays Coaches Canberra-Melbourne have resumes
- Transborder Coaches Canberra-Yass
- Premier Motors Sydney to Brisbane suspended. Sydney to Eden is operating.
- Australia Wide Coaches Express bus services Orange - Sydney resumed on reduced 3 days per week timetable
- Port Stephens Coaches Sydney to Port Stephens express bus service have resumed on reduced 4 days per week timetable.
- Northern Rivers Buslines
- RMS Cross-river ferries operating normally
- Clarence River Ferry Yamba to Iluka operating normally.
- Byron Bay Train running normally
- Central Coast Ferries Regular service Woy Woy - Saratoga - Empire Bay .
- Skybus Gold Coast Airport to Byron Bay - service permanently withdrawn.
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- VICTORIA
- VLine Trains Normal services
- VLine Buses Services running as normal including cross-border.
- The Overland Adelaide-Melbourne resumes December 12
- Skybus Geelong to Avalon airport bus services resumed
- Gull Geelong to Melbourne Airport bus services continue operation
- Ballarat to Melbourne Airport bus
- Bendigo to Melbourne Airport bus
- Balfours Shepparton to Melbourne Airport bus service resumed BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
- Gippy Shuttle Traralgon to Melbourne Airport bus service appears to have ceased operation - website not reachable since Feb 2021.
- Peninsula Searoad Queenscliff-Sorrento Ferry running normally.
- PTV branded private buses Operating normally
- Westernport Ferries Ferries Stony Point to French Island and Phillip Island running regular services
- Port Phillip Ferries Services on both routes (Melbourne - Geelong and Melbourne - Portarlington)
- Greyhound Buses Melbourne to Canberra and Sydney have resumed
- Firefly Express Melbourne-Adelaide resumed on reduced frequency timetables
- Firefly Express Melbourne-Sydney have resumed on reduced frequency timetables
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- QUEENSLAND
- Sunshine Coast line Trains
- Gold Coast Coast line Trains
- QR Traveltrain Trains Brisbane - Cairns (Spirit of Queensland), Rockhampton Tilt Train, Bundaberg Tilt Train NORMAL SERVICES
- QR Traveltrain Trains Brisbane - Longreach (Spirit of the Outback) returned to normal timetables.
- QR Traveltrain Trains Brisbane-Charleville (The Westlander) resumes March 24, Townsville-Mount Isa (The Inlander) one service weekly resumed March 16, second weekly service resumes April 2.
- NSW Trainlink Trains Brisbane XPT train resumed running to Brisbane March 10th
- NSW Trainlink Buses Services have resumed running into Queensland.
- Murrays Coaches Brisbane - Toowoomba - St George - Cunnamulla/Lightning Ridge
- Greyhound Brisbane-Cairns, Brisbane-Mount Isa, Brisbane-Charleville, Toowoomba-Rockhampton, Townsville-Mt Isa-Tennant Creek.
- Greyhound Brisbane- Toowoomba - Miles and Brisbane-Byron Bay.
- Greyhound Buses Brisbane - Sydney
- Greyhound Buses Longreach-Emerald-Rockhampton
- Mackay transit Mackay-Emerald was reduced to 4 per week but appears to now have returned to daily operation.
- Glasshouse Country Coaches
- Bowen transit
- Premier Motors Brisbane to Cairns are running as normal
- Premier Motors Brisbane to Sydney are running as normal
- Bus Queensland Qld outback Services taken over by other operators (Greyhound, Murrays, Trans North).
- Crisps Coaches Limited services (Mon & Fri only) from Toowoomba/Warwick/ Goondiwindi.
- Crisps Coaches Brisbane to Warwick and Stanthorpe - limited services operating.
- New England Coaches Warwick to Tamworth permanently withdrawn from April 30 2021.
- Trans North Coaches Cairns to Karumba and Cooktown.
- North Burnett Monto-Mundubbera-Maryborough appears to have resumed after suspension.
- North Burnett Mundubbera-Bundaberg was reduced to 1 per week but appears to have returned to 3 times weekly.
- North Burnett Eidsvold-Mt Perry-Bundaberg, and Monto-Ceratodus running as normal.
- SeaLink Magnetic island ferry running normally
- Cruise Whitsundays
- Skybus Gold Coast Airport to Byron Bay - service permanently withdrawn.
- Noosa Ferry
- Peddells Thursday Island - Seisia ferries
- Thursday Island Ferry to Horn Island
- SeaSwift Cairns to Cape York ferries - status not known.
- SeaLink Bay Islands ferries
- Coochiemudlo Island
- Green Island Ferries to Green Island.
- Fraser Island Ferries to Fraser Island running normally.
- Daintree Ferry The ferry across the Daintree river is running normally
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- SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- The Indian Pacific all Indian Pacific journeys have been suspended until March 10th
- The Ghan Adelaide Darwin running normally
- The Overland Adelaide-Melbourne - resumes December 12
- VLineVLine buses have resumed running into SA.
- Stateliner Buses Running at or near normal levels.
- LinkSA Buses All route services operating as normal
- Yorke Peninsula Coachesrunning normally
- Sealink Kangaroo Island Ferry and connecting buses.
- KI Connect Kangaroo Island Connect Ferry (Cape Jervis to Penneshaw) have resumed.
- Spencer Gulf Searoad Wallaroo to Lucky Bay ferry
- Firefly Express Melbourne-Adelaide resumed on reduced frequencies
- Tambray Coaches Mildura - Adelaide. SERVICE CANCELLED AND WILL NOT RESUME.
- Greyhound Coaches Adelaide-Alice Springs are running to reduced frequencies
- Genesis Transport buses Adelaide to Flinders Ranges (Copley) running to reduced timetable - once weekly north on Thursday south Friday only.
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- WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- TransWA Trains Australind, Prospector and Merredin Link normal timetables.
- TransWA Buses across regional WA normal timetables.
- Trans Regional Local bus services in provincial cities on normal timetables.
- SouthWest Coachlines As normal but not running to Busselton Margaret River airport.
- Integrity Coachlines Normal Timetables
- Goldrush Tours Express Kalgoorlie-Leonora-Laverton buses operating as normal.
- Rottnest Island Ferries Rottnest Island re-opened June 6 and ferry services resumed then.
- The Indian Pacific all Indian Pacific journeys have been suspended and will resume mid March.
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- TASMANIA
- Spirit of Tasmania ferry between Tasmania and Melbourne is operating normally
- Tasmanian Redline Coaches
- Tassielink Coaches
- Derwent Valley Link
- Calow's Coaches
- Sainty's Coaches
- Lee's Coaches
- Manion's Coaches
- Area Connect
- Bruny Island Ferry Operating as normal
- Furneaux Freight Passenger travel on ferries from Bridport to Flinders Island and Lady Barron Island.
- Lake St Clair Ferry Cynthia Bay to Narcissus ferry.
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- NORTHERN TERRITORY
- The Ghan Adelaide Darwin running normally
- Sealink Tiwi Islands ferry
- Sealink Numbulwar ferry
- Sealink Groote Eylandt bus
- Greyhound Coaches Adelaide-Alice Springs are running to reduced frequencies
- Greyhound Coaches Darwin - Broome
- Greyhound Coaches Tennant Creek-Mount Isa-Townsville has resumed to reduced timetable
Tourist railways, tramways and cableways
As soon as we become aware of service changes we will post an alert and update the service status summary here.
