Public Transport

The Whitehorse community has access to an extensive public transport system with trains, trams and buses providing services across the city.

Visit the Transport Victoria website for all your public transport needs, such as:

Trains

The City of Whitehorse has railway stations located at Union (replacing the Mont Albert, and Surrey Hills stations) Box Hill, Laburnum, Blackburn, Nunawading,and Mitcham. The Metro Trains operates Lilydale and Belgrave line services travel through these stations with partial express services operating between Melbourne city and Box Hill.

Since 2023, all level crossings in the City of Whitehorse have been separated from roads.

The 90km Suburban Rail Loop Project will create two new stations in Whitehorse at Box Hill and Burwood. Construction began in 2022 and will be completed between Cheltenham and Box Hill by 2035.

Trams

 Yarra Trams operates three tram routes in Whitehorse:

  • Route 109 between Box Hill and Port Melbourne along Whitehorse Road in Mont Albert and Box Hill.
  • Route 70 between Wattle Park and Waterfront City Docklands along Riversdale Road in Surrey Hills.
  • Route 75 between Vermont South and Central Pier Docklands along Burwood Highway in Burwood, Burwood East and Vermont South.

Buses

Apart from many local bus routes, the Whitehorse has a number higher frequency SmartBus Routes, including:

  • 703 between Blackburn and Middle Brighton via Monash University
  • 901 between Melbourne Airport and Frankston
  • 902 between Airport West and Chelsea
  • 903 between Altona and Mordialloc
  • 906 between Melbourne City and Warrandyte
  • 907 between Mitcham and Melbourne City

Night Network

Going out this weekend? Since 2016, Melbourne has all night public transport on Friday and Saturday nights. 

For Whitehorse, this includes the Belgrave/Lilydale train line, Tram 75 (Vermont South) and Tram 109 (Box Hill) and NightBus 966. 
Visit the Transport Victoria for more information.

Feedback about Public Transport

Public transport is managed and operated by the State Government. Send your feedback about using public transport to Transport Victoria.

Other Information

The Transport Factsheet provides additional information about public transport use, car ownership in Whitehorse, method of travel to work and road safety.