The Shepparton line

The Shepparton service turns off at Seymour and runs through Nagambie's lake country into the orchards of the Goulburn Valley.

Shepparton's new art museum has reframed the whole town, and the station puts you inside a flat, easy walk of the gallery, the Maude Street mall and the Victoria Park Lake foreshore.

• Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) on the lake

  A striking new lakeside gallery with a serious ceramics collection and free entry, five minutes' walk from the water's edge.

• Nagambie Lakes rowing and wineries

  National-level rowing water at dawn, vineyards along the bank by lunch — a genuinely restful pairing.

• Goulburn Valley orchards and farm gates

  The nation's fruit bowl, where farm gates sell pears, peaches and apricots for a fraction of city prices in season.

• Victoria Park Lake foreshore walk

  A flat, well-lit lap of the lake past the painted cows and picnic lawns that works just as well at sunset as at breakfast.