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Getting to Prisons - Port Phillip Prison

Address: Corner Dohertys and Palmers Roads, Truganina
Tel: (+61 3) 9217 7200
Fax: (+61 3) 9217 7218

Postal address: PO Box 376, Laverton VIC 3028

Getting there - car

From Melbourne CBD

From Spencer Street turn right at Flinders Street and continue along Charles Grimes Bridge Road. Follow the signs and take the Westgate Freeway Westbound. Take the Grieve Parade exit and, at the roundabout, take the third exit onto Dohertys Road. The prison is on the corner of Dohertys and Palmers Roads, Truganina.

From Princes Highway

Continue along the Princes Highway Citybound and take the Old Geelong Road exit at Laverton. At the roundabout, take the second exit onto Fitzgerald Road in Laverton North. You'll come to another roundabout. Take the third exit onto Dohertys Road, Truganina.

Getting there - public transport

To Laverton railway station

The bus departs from Sushine Railway Station Bus Terminal (Bay 11) and runs via the Overpass, Durham Road, Anderson Road, Forrest Street, Tilburn Road, Station Road, Western Highway (Ballarat Road), Westwood Drive, Robinsons Road and Riding Boundary Road to the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

The bus then departs via Riding Boundary Road, Robinsons Road and Middle Road to the Metropolitian Remand Centre. It then departs from the Metropolitan Remand Centre via Middle Road, Robinsons Road, Palmers Road, Dohertys Road to Port Phillip Prison. It then travels via Dohertys Road, Fitzgerald Road, Old Geelong Road, Bladin Street, Wright Street,Thomas Street, Woods Street, Lohse Street and Maher Road to the terminus at Laverton Railway Station.

To Sunshine

Bus will travel in the reverse direction.

Operator: Westrans - Altona
Contact Westrans - Altona: 9398 2712