Hastings 3915

Our weather

The latest Bureau of Meteorology Mornington Peninsula weather forecast is at
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV10702.shtml

Local waters forecast for Western Port is available at
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV10461.shtml

There's also the info from Weather.com.au a wholly Australian owned private company at http://www.weather.com.au/vic/hastings

Train services

Hastings is on the Stony Point railway line -- a single track diesel railcar service with one or two carriages that provides a shuttle service between Frankston and Crib Point, where there is a passenger ferry service across to French Island and Phillip Island.

Train times can be found at http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/13

There are 8 services a day in each direction (7 on Sundays and 10 on Fridays).

Hastings station can be reached by turning on to a dirt road just east of the railway line in High Street, but you'll bounce around less if you take the next street (next to the video store) and turn left at the end.

Tickets can be bought at the Hastings newsagency but there is also, currently, an acceptance by Metlink that you can travel and pay at Frankston. There are 4 stations between Hastings and Frankston.

Ticket prices are shown at http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/fares-tickets/metropolitan-fares-and-tickets/metcard-fares/

The rail service is replaced by buses when there are problems.

Bus services

There are two bus service between Hastings and Frankston (some buses go as far south as Flinders)

Details at http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/stop/view/13265

There are about 19 services a day between Hastings and Frankston (combining both routes).

The main bus stops in Hastings are in King Street near the Coles car park. The services are operated by Grenda under the Peninsula Bus Lines name.