Travellers are counting the cost in time and fuel as V/Line trains remain at a standstill, more than 24 hours after the nationwide Telstra outage began.

A crippling statewide cancellation of Victoria's regional trains, linked to a Telstra outage, is set to continue disrupting services into Thursday morning.

A widespread Telstra outage has disrupted mobile and data connections across the network, halting local business payments and completely stalling V-Line train services throughout…