Status as at Monday February 22 2021 ( 12:20 EST / 13:20 EDST )
Public Transport is an essential service and at present, most metropolitan trams, buses and ferries across Australia are running to regular timetables.
Many airport connection buses have been suspended, though these are now gradually resuming.
Most long distance services are also running to regular timetables but many privately operated services are operating on reduced frequencies.
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- Metro
- Light Rail Operating normally except after-midnight L1 line trams are suspended.
- Ferries
- Buses
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- Melbourne
Trains - Normal timetables- Trams - Normal timetables
- Buses - Normal timetables
- Skybus Tullamarine Airport to Melbourne City Express running limited services 4:30am-midnight. Avalon airport services resumed December 18. All other Skybus services remain suspended ie (Docklands/Southbank, St Kilda, Eastern, Peninsula, Western)
- Ferries St Kilda Ferry - weekends only. Westgate Punt now operating normally.
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- Brisbane
Trains- Ferries
- Buses
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- Perth
Trains- Buses.
- Ferries
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- Adelaide
Trains - Flinders Line re-opened in late December. Gawler line running as buses due to electrification works.- Trams
- Buses - Normal service running EXCEPT J1X Airport express which is suspended.
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- Canberra
- Trams
- Buses
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- Hobart/Launceston
- Buses
- Skybus Hobart Airport service - resumed October 26
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- Newcastle
Trains- Trams
- Buses
- Ferries
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- Darwin
- Buses
- Ferries
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- Gold Coast
- Trains
- Light Rail
- Buses
- Ferries - HOPO
Long Distance country and Interstate services:
- NEW SOUTH WALES
- NSW Trainlink Trains Train services are running as normal (including into Victoria)
- NSW Trainlink Buses As normal (including into Victoria)
- The Indian Pacific Sydney-Adelaide-Perth operating normally
- Greyhound Buses Sydney to Brisbane are operating
- Greyhound Buses Canberra to Melbourne are operating reduced services just just three days per week.
- Greyhound Buses Sydney to Canberra are operating reduced services just just three days per week.
- Firefly Express Sydney-Melbourne resumed Feb 4th running 3 nights per week only Mon/Wed/Fri northbound, Tue/Thu/Sat southbound.
- Sid Foggs coaches Newcastle to Dubbo resumed normal services May 13.
- New England coaches Tamworth to Warwick and Tamworth to Coffs Harbour resumed (Mon & Fri only) November 30.
- Murrays Coaches Canberra-Sydney, Canberra-Narooma, Canberra-Wollongong
- Murrays Coaches Canberra-Melbourne suspended
- Transborder Coaches Canberra-Yass
- Premier Motors Sydney to Brisbane and Sydney to Eden services have resumed.
- Australia Wide Coaches Express bus services between Orange and Sydney will resume 3 days p/w from March 8th.
- Port Stephens Coaches Sydney to Port Stephens express bus service now running daily as normal.
- Northern Rivers Buslines
- RMS Cross-river ferries operating normally
- Clarence River Ferry Yamba to Iluka operating normally.
- Byron Bay Train Appears to have resumed following Covid suspension.
- Central Coast Ferries Regular service Woy Woy - Saratoga - Empire Bay still running although tourist cruises are suspended..
- Skybus Gold Coast Airport to Byron Bay
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- VICTORIA
- VLine Trains Normal services
- VLine Buses Services running as normal
- The Overland Adelaide-Melbourne
- Skybus Geelong to Avalon airport bus service resumed December 18.
- Gull Geelong to Melbourne Airport bus services resumed December 1.
- Ballarat to Melbourne Airport bus service resumed on MODIFIED TIMEABLE December 14
- Bendigo Airport Service to Melbourne Airport bus service resumed on MODIFIED TIMEABLE December 14
- Balfours Shepparton to Melbourne Airport bus service resumed December 1.
- Gippy Shuttle Traralgon to Melbourne Airport bus service has resumed.
- Peninsula Searoad Queenscliff-Sorrento Ferry regular hourly frequency service resumed November 9th November.
- PTV branded private buses Operating normally
- Westernport Ferries Ferries Stony Point to French Island and Phillip Island returned to regular timetable November 9th November.
- Port Phillip Ferries Service on both routes (Melbourne - Geelong and Melbourne - Portarlington) resumed Sat 20th Feb
- Greyhound Buses Melbourne to Canberra and Sydney are operating reduced services just just three days per week.
- Firefly Express Melbourne-Adelaide Overnight services suspended until March 1st. Daylight services operating normally.
- Firefly Express Sydney-Melbourne resumed Feb 4th running 3 nights per week only Mon/Wed/Fri northbound, Tue/Thu/Sat southbound.
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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 from June 13.
- QR Traveltrain Trains Brisbane - Longreach (Spirit of the Outback) resumed 23 June.
- QR Traveltrain Trains Brisbane-Charleville (The Westlander), Townsville-Mount Isa (The Inlander) and connecting buses resumed running normal twice weekly services 19 September.
- NSW Trainlink Trains Brisbane XPT train running as normal to and from Brisbane.
- NSW Trainlink Buses Services into Queensland have resumed normal services.
- Murrays Coaches Brisbane - Toowoomba - Chinchilla.
- Greyhound Brisbane-Cairns
- Greyhound Brisbane- Toowoomba - Miles and Brisbane-Byron Bay resumes Jan 12 after Brisbane shutdown.
- Greyhound Buses Tennant Creek-Mount Isa and Brisbane - Sydney suspended.
- Greyhound Buses Longreach-Emerald-Rockhampton resumed full service from August 10th.
- 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 Lismore services are suspended.
- Premier Motors Brisbane to Sydney services have resumed.
- Bus Queensland Services running normally.
- Crisps Coaches Limited services (Mon & Fri only) from Toowoomba/Warwick to Moree and Toowoomba/Warwick to Tamworth resumed November 30.
- Crisps Coaches Brisbane to Warwick and Stanthorpe - limited services operating.
- 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.
- Cruise Whitsundays
- Skybus Gold Coast Airport to Byron Bay
- Noosa Ferry suspended March 23, but resumed by July.
- 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 Sydney-Adelaide-Perth operating normally
- The Ghan Adelaide-Alice Springs-Darwin
- The Overland Adelaide-Melbourne
- VLine All VLine buses into SA have resumed normal timetables.
- Stateliner Buses Running at or near normal levels.
- LinkSA Buses All route services operating as normal although special services to Monarto Zoo and Footy Expresses and Barossa School buses will not run. Cross-border service from Murrayville appears to have been restored. Cash payments accepted only in plastic bags and no change is given.
- Yorke Peninsula Coaches Modified/reduced services
- 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 service commenced Nov 14.
- Firefly Express Melbourne-Adelaide Overnight services suspended until March 1st. Daylight services operating normally.
- Tambray Coaches Mildura - Adelaide. SERVICE CANCELLED AND WILL NOT RESUME.
- Greyhound Coaches Adelaide-Alice Springs-Darwin returned to full daily frequency August 2nd/3rd.
- 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. (Australind replaced by buses until 2021 due to technical issues)
- 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 Sydney-Adelaide-Perth operating normally
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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 suspended March 24 but resumed early June.
- Lake St Clair Ferry Cynthia Bay to Narcissus ferry Suspended March 31 but resumed early June.
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- NORTHERN TERRITORY
- The Ghan Adelaide-Alice Springs-Darwin
- Sealink Tiwi Islands ferry resumed service June 5.
- Sealink Numbulwar ferry resumed June 12.
- Sealink Groote Eylandt bus resumed early June.
- Greyhound Coaches Adelaide-Alice Springs-Darwin, Darwin-Broome running as normal. Darwin-Broome increased from 3 to 5 days per week October 17-19th.
- Greyhound Coaches Tennant Creek-Mount Isa Suspended
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.
