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Werribee

Werribee

Werribee is the old centre of the City of Wyndham, and the end of the Werribee line. The extension toward Geelong was never built. Since 2015, Geelong line trains have used Wyndham Vale, so a passenger at Werribee station no longer has a direct train to Geelong. In 2021 most of the people counted in the municipality lived in other suburbs.

A refurbished Comeng train at Werribee station
A refurbished Comeng train at Werribee station. The photograph is of the station, not the suburb. Marko Ivic08, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

At a glance

Reviewed 2026-11-01.

Council: City of Wyndham

The station is the terminus. The line beyond it was never built, and no cost or year is recorded for it. The growth forecast is a municipal figure, on the council page, not a count of people already living in this suburb.

What is changing

On 8 October 2026 the mayors of Wyndham and Greater Geelong wrote to the Premier asking for a trial of two Warrnambool services a day stopping at Werribee. The state government has said it has no plans to do it. A trial of existing long-distance trains is not the extension, and it is not funded. How that sits against the growth figures and the works closer to the city is the west is changing faster than the old infrastructure.

Location and boundaries

The Werribee locality
The Werribee locality in OpenStreetMap, with Hoppers Crossing to the north, Wyndham Vale to the west, and Werribee Regional Park to the south. This outline is the mapped locality, not the ABS suburb used for the Census table. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The Census figures below use the ABS suburb Werribee (SAL22750). That geography is a different dataset from the outline above.

Transport and access

Stations: Werribee Station

Lines: Werribee Line

Werribee station is the last stop on the line. Passengers for Geelong have gone via Wyndham Vale since the Regional Rail Link opened in 2015. The tracks that would have continued past the station were never built.

Infrastructure projects

The Werribee line extension is the unbuilt continuation. Nothing on this page gives it a cost or a year. The October 2026 proposal is a request for a trial of Warrnambool trains, and the government has said it has no plans to run one.

Projects: Werribee line extension

Planning and development

Wyndham and Greater Geelong’s 2025 memorandum names the Avalon Corridor Strategy, covering land between Lara and Werribee, as a priority. That is a shared strategy between two councils. It is not an approved development in this suburb, and it is not the railway extension.

Population and housing

The Australian Bureau of Statistics counted Werribee, the suburb, in the 2021 Census. These figures are not the City of Wyndham. Of the municipality’s 292,011 usual residents in the same Census, 50,027 lived in this suburb.

| People | 50,027 | | Median age | 35 | | Private dwellings | 19,890 | | Average people per household | 2.7 | | Median weekly household income | $1,645 |

History and local context

The name comes from the Werribee River, recorded as Wirribi-yaluk in Wathawurrung and Boonwurrung. A township here was named Wyndham in the 1850s. The post office opened on 12 January 1858 as Wyndham, the town was renamed Werribee in 1884, and the post office took the new name in 1904. The shire was renamed Werribee in 1909. Those dates are from Wikipedia’s account of the suburb.

Recent verified changes

  • 8 October 2026. The mayors of Wyndham and Greater Geelong asked the Premier for a trial of two Warrnambool services a day stopping at Werribee. The state government has said it has no plans to do it. The line still ends at the station.

Practical questions

Does the train continue to Geelong?

Not from this station. Geelong line trains have used Wyndham Vale since 2015. The extension past Werribee was never built.

Are the Census figures for Wyndham?

The table is the suburb, SAL22750. The municipality’s count, and the forecast past 500,000, are on the council page.

Is the October 2026 trial going ahead?

The mayors asked for it. The state government has said it has no plans to run it, and no funding for it is recorded here.

Sources and related places