TRAINS across the regional Victorian rail network are expected to run to extreme heat timetables on Monday as hot weather returns.
Services on the Bendigo, Swan Hill, Echuca, Seymour and Shepparton lines corridors will run to extreme heat timetables today, due to temperatures expected to exceed 35 degrees.
Trains that usually travel at up to 160 kilometres an hour need to slow down to 90km/h or less because steel tracks expand in the heat.
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Temperatures throughout central Victoria will warm on Monday, with Bendigo reaching a high of 35, Echuca 36, Castlemaine 33 and Maryborough 34.
Although today isn't currently a day of Total Fire Ban, the fire danger warning for the central, north central and northern country remains high.