For the 2026 Cox Plate on Saturday 24 October, Transport Victoria is running extra trains from Flinders Street to Flemington Racecourse from 10:10am to 5:00pm, plus route 57 and 57a trams. The race meeting is at Flemington for the very first time, because of redevelopment at Moonee Valley.
Airport Central station, linked to Terminals 1 and 2, is 18 minutes from Perth Station by train, according to Perth Airport, and the Go Anywhere fare is $3.50 cash or contactless and $3.15 with a SmartRider, as of October 2026. Terminals 3 and 4 have no station of their own, so you take the free Route 292 bus to Redcliffe Station and board the same line there.
For Tame Impala at RAC Arena the simplest way in is the train: Perth Station and Perth Underground are a short walk from the arena, and on Saturday 24 October your event ticket includes travel on all Transperth services for three hours before, during and three hours after the show. If you are coming from the north on Sunday 25 October, the Yanchep Line is disrupted between Butler and Yanchep that evening, and the last full line train leaves Perth Underground at 7.21pm.
Your ticket to the BIGBANG concert at Accor Stadium on Saturday 31 October 2026 includes travel on every public transport mode, and Major Event Buses will not run for this concert, according to Transport for NSW. Trains from the city run to Lidcombe, where you change for Olympic Park, and parking is pre-booked at a flat $40.
Trains run between Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station and Geelong every 20 minutes in the middle of the day, and the trip takes 53 minutes on the fastest weekday trains and 63 to 66 minutes on trains that stop more often, according to V/Line’s timetable effective 23 August 2026. You pay by tapping a myki, bank card, smartphone or smartwatch on and off, and you do not need a seat reservation.
The closest train station to the Melbourne Cricket Ground is Jolimont, a five-minute, 350-metre walk through Yarra Park to Gate 2. The MCG says car parking is extremely limited on event days and strongly encourages public transport. Where Yarra Park parking is open it costs $20 per vehicle, payable by eftpos only.
Melbourne’s public transport is half price until 1 January 2027, so a full-fare myki Money traveller pays no more than $5.70 a day across Zones 1 and 2 on a weekday and $4.00 a day on a weekend. The daily cap means that once you reach it, travel is free for the rest of that day.
If you hold a pre-purchased ticket to the Supercars Gold Coast 500, Translink says you can travel free to and from the race on all regular Queensland Rail City Network trains, Kinetic Gold Coast bus services and G: services, excluding Airtrain. The free travel runs from the first service until the last service on the date printed on your event ticket.
In Sydney you pay public transport fares by tapping a contactless credit or debit card, a digital wallet or an Opal card on a reader at the start and end of every trip. As of October 2026, an adult never pays more than $19.30 a day from Monday to Thursday, $9.65 a day on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, or $50 a week, according to Transport for NSW.
Sydney Airport says the trip to the city takes 13 minutes by train, about 20 minutes by taxi and about 25 minutes by car in light traffic. A station access fee of $18.61 for an adult is charged on top of the train fare whenever you use the Domestic or International airport station, as of October 2026.