Victorian Railway Corridors

dataset: VIC_RAILWAY_CORRIDOR
This data was withdrawn from DataShare April 2025. This polyline dataset represents the centreline of operational rail corridors in Victoria. The data includes VicTrack owned corridors and spurs into privately owned freight facilities. The data may also include any "under construction" corridors. The data does not include Tourist/Heritage Railways. The data includes attributes which identify if the corridors are used by Metro (MTM) services, V/Line services, freight services and interstate services. The attributes also identify the presence of broad, standard and dual guage tracks in the corridor and the presence of electrification in the corridor.
 
Citation proposal Citation proposal
(2022)

Victorian Railway Corridors

Department of Transport and Planning
 

Description

Title
Victorian Railway Corridors 
Alternate title
VIC_RAILWAY_CORRIDOR 
Resource Type
Dataset  
Purpose
This data was withdrawn from DataShare April 2025. This layer was created to identify active railway corridors in Victoria 
Credit
Kalu Ribush 
Supplemental Information
History: The data is based in part on historic railway data maintained by the Department of Transport (DoT) Current Design Issues: The corridor dataset is a simplification of the rail network. Some rail corridor contain a single track and other corridors contain multiple parallel tracks. In areas where the rail network is dense, such as around the ports precinct, representing the precinct as a corridor is not a true representation of the network. The data includes all major active railway corridors as advised by rail experts in the department. However, the status of some freight corridors may change. There are some sections of the rail network which are referred to as under "minimum maintenance" and may be used irregularly. The amount of rail activity on some freight corridors is seasonal and will depend on the agricultural harvest. Related Documents: None 
Status
Withdrawn  
 
 

Temporal

Time period
2015-07-012015-07-31 
 
 

Spatial

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Code
4283 
Description
General - Victoria 
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Maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed  
 
 

Format

 
 

Contacts

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Keywords

Topic category
  • Transportation
 
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
Unrestricted 
Classification
Restricted  
 
 

Lineage

Statement
Dataset Source: The data was created by the Transport Analysis and Assessment Branch of the Department of Transport (DoT) in consultation with Public Transport Victoria (PTV) Dataset Originality: Primary 
Description
Collection Method: On screen digitising relative to other spatial data and aerial photography 
Description
The alignments have been checked against the most recent available aerial photography and corridors in PASS Assets data. 
 
 

Metadata Constraints

Classification
Unclassified  
 
 

Quality

Attribute Quality
Comments
The attributes and status of corridors has been check by David Hill (DEDJTR) and are current at the time of publication. 
Positional Accuracy
Comments
Estimated to be 1:10,000 
Conceptual Consistency
Comments
Not stated 
Missing Data
Comments
This dataset covers all of Victoria and railway extension into NSW freight facilities 
Excess Data
 
 

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