If I lived far enough out that I needed V/Line to get to work, I'd make arrangements to work from home most of the time, anyway. I would not relish commuting in by V/Line daily. Even from as close as Geelong. Three hours on the train to/from work sounds like too much to do every day.

I had a workmate in Taralgon, that journey was something like 3 hours each way. She only came in once per week, and that was 10 years ago, before a pandemic made working from home common. That said, she did a fair bit of work on the actual train and didn't even stay in the office the entire work day.