How to get to Castlemaine
Castlemaine is on the Bendigo railway line and most trains take approximately one-and-a-half hours from Southern Cross station. Timetables are available on the V/Line website.
Castlemaine is approximately 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne: a 90-minute drive from Melbourne city centre. Leave Melbourne via the Tullamarine Freeway and follow the signs to Bendigo and the Calder Freeway: an excellent dual-track road through stunning country. The Freeway has been extended to Ravenswood, north of Harcourt, and you can avoid the narrow, winding road through Chewton by continuing on to Harcourt and coming to Castlemaine that way. Your journey will take the same time. The gardens in Barkers Creek (Hedgehogs and Lixouri) are close to the Harcourt exit.
Download and print a copy of this map for details of times, distances, Melway® and RACV VicRoads® map references, etc.