Free travel
Metropolitan trains, trams, buses, and regional town buses will be free from 6pm on New Year’s Eve until 6am on New Year’s Day.
V/Line travel is also free from 6pm on New Year’s Eve to 6am on New Year’s Day. The first V/Line service on each line departing Melbourne on New Year’s Day is also free – even if it departs after 6am.
No valid myki is required during free travel periods. Metropolitan ticket barriers will be open at all stations and passengers touching on after 6pm won’t be charged. If passengers touch on before 6pm, they should make sure to touch off or they may be charged a default fare.
Passengers on the first timetabled V/Line services on New Year’s Day leaving Melbourne should avoid touching on to avoid myki money fares.
Services running all night
Metropolitan trains and trams (except Routes 78 and 82) will run all night to help you travel to your New Year’s Eve event and back again.
Metropolitan train
31 December 2023
From first service until last service all services will operate to a normal Sunday timetable.
- From 7pm until 1:45am the Burnley group will run via the City Loop to Flinders Street then out direct.
- Flinders Street and Southern Cross stations will be open all night on New Year’s Eve, while City Loop stations (Parliament, Flagstaff and Melbourne Central stations) will be closed from 11:45pm.
- From prior to midnight, normal Sunday services will be operating to Flinders Street Station.
- From 6pm to 10pm, additional services will be operating via CBD Stations and terminating at Flinders Street Station.
1 January 2024
- From 12:15am to 1:45am, all services will be running approximately 5-to-15-minute frequency.
- From 1:45am to 2:45am, all services will be running approximately 30-minute frequency.
- From 2:45am, all services will be running approximately 60-minute frequency until first service on Monday morning.
Metropolitan tram
31 December 2023 – 1 January 2024
- Trams will operate to a Sunday timetable on Sunday 31 December.
- From 4pm on New Year’s Eve until 3am on New Year’s Day, Shuttle services, service changes and altered frequencies will apply on Routes 1, 3, 3a, 5, 6, 16, 19, 48, 57, 58, 59, 64, 67, 70, 72, 75, 78, 86, 96 and 109.
- From 3am until the first normal service on Monday, Night Trams run every 30 minutes on routes 19, 67, 75, 86, 96 and 109.
Metropolitan bus
- There’ll be no additional services to bus routes in the city on New Year’s Eve.
- Buses will run to the normal Sunday timetable on Sunday 31 December. Night Network buses will run.
Night Bus
To assist patrons in travelling to and from New Year’s Eve in Melbourne, the following Night Network bus routes will run to a Saturday timetable on New Year’s Eve Sunday 31 December 2023, into New Years Day on Monday 1 January 2024.
24 hour bus routes
- Route 150 Williams Landing Station – Tarneit Station
- Route 180 Werribee Station – Tarneit Station
- Route 190 Werribee Station – Wyndham Vale Station
- Route 250 City – La Trobe University
- Route 357 Wollert West – Thomastown Station
- Route 386 Mernda Station – Bundoora RMIT
- Route 406 Keilor East – Footscray
- Route 410 Sunshine Station – Footscray
- Route 420 Sunshine Station – Watergardens
- Route 630 Elwood – Monash University
- Route 670 Ringwood – Lilydale
- Route 693 Belgrave – Oakleigh
- Route 703 Middle Brighton – Blackburn
- Route 788 Frankston – Portsea
- Route 833 Frankston Station – Carrum Station
- Route 900 Stud Park SC (Rowville) – Caulfield
- Route 901 Frankston – Melbourne Airport
- Route 908 City – The Pines SC
Operate after midnight on weekends
- Route 941 Sunshine Station – Watergardens Station
- Route 943 Watergardens Station – Melton
- Route 947 Footscray – Newport Station
- Route 949 Williams Landing Station – Altona Meadows
- Route 951 Brunswick Station – Glenroy Station
- Route 953 Broadmeadows Station – Craigieburn
- Route 959 City – Broadmeadows Station
- Route 965 Lilydale – Healesville Loop
- Route 967 Glen Waverley – Bayswater
- Route 978 Dandenong Station – Clayton Station
- Route 979 Clayton Station – Dandenong Station
- Route 981 Dandenong Station – Cranbourne
- Route 982 Dandenong Station – Cranbourne
The following services will operate to a 30-minute frequency:
- Route 207 City – Doncaster Shopping Centre
- Route 905 City – The Pines SC
- Route 907 City – Mitcham
Regional train
31 December 2023
- A normal Sunday timetable will operate on New Year’s Eve.
- Night Coach services will operate in the early hours of New Year’s Day, departing at 1am and 2am from the Southern Cross Coach Termina
1 January 2024
- The normal Saturday timetable will operate on New Year’s Day.
Regional coach
31 December 2023
- The normal Sunday timetable will operate on New Year’s Eve.
1 January 2024
- The normal Saturday (Public Holiday) timetable will operate on New Year’s Day.
- There will be no Night Coach services operating on New Year’s Day.