Adelaide to Tarneit train

Trains from Adelaide to Tarneit start at €97.14 and take 5h 50m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Adelaide to Tarneit starts at €97.14 and takes 5h 50m door to door, run by 1 operator over 726 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 50mDoor to door
  • 5h 6mMoving
  • €97.14From
  • 24.0 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€88.89
  1. Great Southern Railway GS983307:304h 48m12:18Adelaide railway stationBallarat
  2. Great Southern Railway GS687413:1944m14:03BallaratTarneit

Changes at Ballarat, with 61 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 17mCO2 24.0 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€89.44
  1. Great Southern Railway GS484206:545h 6m12:00Adelaide railway stationTarneit

Door to door 5h 50mCO2 24.0 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Rail operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Great Southern Railway€89.445h 40m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi

The train gets you into Tarneit. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

Where to stay in Tarneit

Sort by distance from Tarneit and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Adelaide to Tarneit

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €115.8490 days
  2. €74.5860 days
  3. €64.6845 days
  4. €92.7430 days
  5. €89.9921 days
  6. €133.4414 days
  7. €144.447 days
  8. €171.943 days
  9. €215.391 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €64.68.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 233 percent. The most expensive point is €215.39, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €138.94Sun
  2. €102.09Mon
  3. €124.09Tue
  4. €97.14Wed
  5. €135.09Thu
  6. €133.44Fri
  7. €123.54Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Adelaide

Rail
  • Adelaide railway station
  • Adelaide Parklands Terminal
  • Port Adelaide railway station

Tarneit

Rail
  • Tarneit
  • Tarneit West railway station
  • Melton
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 726 km against 631 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Ballarat, Geelong, Bendigo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Adelaide at 06:54 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Adelaide to Tarneit

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit take?

The Train from Adelaide to Tarneit takes 5h 50m door to door, of which 5h 6m is spent moving. The route runs 726 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit cost?

The Train from Adelaide to Tarneit starts at €97.14 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €92.19. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit?

1 operators run the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit: Great Southern Railway. Between them they file around 4 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit use?

The Train from Adelaide to Tarneit leaves from Adelaide railway station and arrives at Tarneit. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit?

Fares for the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €64.68. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 233 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit produce?

The Train from Adelaide to Tarneit produces about 24.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 726 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit?

Operators on the Train from Adelaide to Tarneit publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 50m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Adelaide to Tarneit on September 11, 2026: 726 km of route against 631 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €97.14, and 5h 50m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Tarneit is somebody else's catalog.

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Things to do in Tarneit

Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Tarneit, with free cancellation on most of it.

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