The trip to Sunshine Hospital
Without a car, the trip from Melton often takes a bus, two trains and a walk. Then you need to get home again on the same day.
One common way to go
- Walk to the bus stop about 10 min Middle value for Melton areas.
- Bus A local bus to the railway station.
- V/Line train The regional train towards the city.
- Metro train, Sunbury line A short ride towards Sunbury.
- Walk From the station to the hospital entrance.
- Sunshine Hospital
Usual times on the Sept 2026 timetable
For each area we take the fastest timetabled trip. Below is the middle value across all areas with a full round trip. Half of the areas are faster, half are slower.
- Walk from home to the first stop
- 10 min
- Trip to the hospital
- 76 min
- Wait for a trip home after 6 pm
- 22 min
- Trip home
- 79 min
- Full round trip (trip there, including waiting, plus trip home)
- 168 min
In 381 of the 387 areas with a full round trip, the trip there uses two or three buses and trains. Times are from the timetable; delays are not included.
Getting home is the hard part
A hospital visit only works if you can also get home on the same day. If there is no bus or train home, the visit does not work, even when the trip there is easy. So we always look at both trips together.
At 8:30 pm, 180 areas have no trip home. This includes 21 of the 31 priority areas. For 20 priority areas, the last trip home leaves the hospital at 8:26 pm.
This is why the explorer shows two times: leaving hospital at 6 pm and at 8:30 pm.