Reservoir to Adelaide train

Trains from Reservoir to Adelaide start at €97.14 and take 6h 37m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Reservoir to Adelaide starts at €97.14 and takes 6h 37m door to door, run by 1 operator over 749 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for October 4, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 37mDoor to door
  • 5h 53mMoving
  • €97.14From
  • 24.7 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 4, 2026

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

Cheapest€89.44
  1. Great Southern Railway GS498307:301h 1m08:31Reservoir stationBallarat
  2. Great Southern Railway GS851510:104h 21m14:31BallaratAdelaide railway station

Changes at Ballarat, with 99 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 45mCO2 24.9 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€96.04
  1. Great Southern Railway GS580506:005h 53m11:53Reservoir stationAdelaide railway station

Door to door 6h 37mCO2 24.7 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€92.195h 51m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi

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Booking window

When to book Reservoir to Adelaide

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

  1. €121.3490 days
  2. €82.2960 days
  3. €77.8945 days
  4. €67.4430 days
  5. €89.4421 days
  6. €97.1414 days
  7. €125.197 days
  8. €155.993 days
  9. €183.491 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €67.44.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 172 percent. The most expensive point is €183.49, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €97.14Sun
  2. €122.99Mon
  3. €116.94Tue
  4. €99.89Wed
  5. €148.29Thu
  6. €142.24Fri
  7. €149.39Sat
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
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 749 km against 652 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 Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Reservoir at 06:00 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 Reservoir to Adelaide

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 Reservoir to Adelaide take?

The Train from Reservoir to Adelaide takes 6h 37m door to door, of which 5h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 749 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 Reservoir to Adelaide cost?

The Train from Reservoir to Adelaide starts at €97.14 for one passenger, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €93.29. 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 Reservoir to Adelaide?

1 operators run the Train from Reservoir to Adelaide: 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 Reservoir to Adelaide use?

The Train from Reservoir to Adelaide leaves from Reservoir station and arrives at Adelaide railway station. 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 Reservoir to Adelaide?

Fares for the Train from Reservoir to Adelaide bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €67.44. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 172 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Train from Reservoir to Adelaide produces about 24.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 749 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 Reservoir to Adelaide?

Operators on the Train from Reservoir to Adelaide publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 37m 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 Reservoir to Adelaide on September 13, 2026: 749 km of route against 652 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €97.14, and 6h 37m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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