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Farmers' markets are growing in popularity and our region is home to fine local produce plus Ballarat has a number of regular craft markets...More info...
Getting to Ballarat
Ballarat is situated just over an hour's drive on the Western Freeway from Melbourne.
Visitors arriving by air into Melbourne can continue onto Ballarat by taking the Ballarat Airport Shuttle Bus, which runs a number of daily services. Bookings are recommended.
V/Line runs a number of trains daily to Ballarat from Southern Cross Station (formerly Spencer Street Station), Melbourne. Travel time is around one and half hours' but with the construction of the fast train network on the Ballarat
line this time has been reduced significantly for peak usage trains.
Viclink provides access to information on all train and bus services in regional Victoria's central public transport network.