Railway Museums and Heritage Railways
Indicates a heritage railway operates
Queensland
The Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich, Qld
The Workshops Rail Museum is located within the former North Ipswich Railway Workshops, Queensland. The Ipswich Railway Workshops is the only Australian rail yard still in operation from the 1800s. In its early days The Workshops was a centre for rail construction and maintenance, and by 1950 had built more than 200 steam locomotives, establishing its own sawmill and powerhouse to provide raw materials and energy. Visitors to the site can see the heritage powerhouse, timekeepers building and worker’s canteen, and The Workshops’ boiler shop where the Museum is housed.
Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Woodford, Qld
The Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society operates a railway museum at the Woodford railway station. The society was established in January 1971 to preserve the history of narrow-gauge railways in Queensland. The society has collected steam, diesel and petrol locomotives and rollingstock using the 2-foot gauge and has established their Durundur railway at Woodford as an operating heritage line. The society operates a heritage train on the first and third Sunday of each month.
Archer Park Railway Museum, Rockhampton, Qld
Archer Park Railway Museum is a heritage-listed former railway station and now transport museum at Denison Street, Rockhampton, Queensland. It was built from 1897 to 1908. It was known as Archer Park railway station and Rockhampton Central railway station. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The Museum's main attraction is a rare French Purrey steam tram reconstructed using parts from the original fleet of steam trams operated by Rockhampton City Council between 1909 and 1939.
Downs Explorer, Warwick, Qld
Downs Explorer (originally known as Southern Downs Steam Railway) was founded in 1996, initially to restore the former Queensland Railways locomotive depot in Warwick. In 2000, a C17 class steam locomotive was purchased and restored to operational condition with passenger operations commencing in January 2009.
Mount Morgan railway station Museum, Qld
Mount Morgan railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Railway Parade, Mount Morgan, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the Mount Morgan - Wowan railway line. The station was constructed in 1898 to service the former goldrush and gold mining township of Mount Morgan and its mine. The station was designed by Henrik Hansen, who also designed the Archer Park, Shorncliffe and South Brisbane railway stations.
North Bundaberg Railway Stn. Museum, Bundaberg, Qld
North Bundaberg railway station is a closed railway station at 28 Station Street, North Bundaberg, Queensland. It is on the North Coast railway line and linked that line to the Mount Perry railway line. The station was constructed in 1881, and it was to be used as the last stop of transporting raw materials such as copper from the mines to the coast for shipping.
Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway, Ipswich
Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway operates a selection of steam and diesel locomotives with vintage timber carriages on its weekend operations. On the round trip you get to go to the lake for a picnic lunch or ride a heritage bus to old mining areas.
Location: T L Cooney Ave, Ipswich. Ph (07) 3103 0871.
Rosewood Railway Museum, Ashwell, Qld
The Rosewood Railway Museum is located near Rosewood, Queensland on the former railway to Marburg first opened in 1909. The museum utilises a station and yard located at Kunkala as its base. The Marburg branch opened from Rosewood in 1912 and saw primarily coal traffic for most of its life.
DownSteam Tourist Railway and Museum, Toowoomba
DownsSteam is a community based solely volunteer run organisation dedicated to the establishment of a tourist railway for the Darling Downs region. DownsSteam was formed to enable the preservation and active restoration of the last remaining steam locomotive built at the historic Toowoomba Foundry Company, C16-106 Southern Cross Works No. 28 circa 1914. Since formation in 2001, DownsSteam has established an active railway precinct on the former Drayton sidings, acquiring a large rolling stock fleet. Location: 16 Cambooya Street, Drayton QLD .
Atherton-Herberton Historic Railway, Herberton, Qld
The Atherton-Herberton Historic Railway Inc. is a not for profit organisation formed, run and managed by a group of passionate volunteers who are dedicated to bringing a century year old railway back to life. A heritage train ride currently starts from Herberton Station towards the Wild River, crosses the main highway by way of a tunnel under Grace Street, crosses Prospectors Gully where the first tin ore was found, passes through sclerophyll forest while travelling through cuttings and across another gully. The ride ends at the Historic Village Herberton. Location: 29-27 Ellie St, Herberton, Qld
Mary Valley Rattler, Gympie
This historic 40km journey, in a restored C17 steam train, is an iconic experience that has you rattling along the track from Gympie, through the beautiful Mary Valley, to arrive in the quaint town of Amamoor. Here you can watch the train prepare for the return journey via the turntable and enjoy a short stay to explore before returning to Gympie Station.
Ravenshoe Steam Railway
Ravenshoe Steam Railway is located in the highest elevation town in Queensland, on the Evelyn Tableland South-west of Cairns in Far North Queensland. Volunteers run a restored 1925 D17 Ipswich-made Tank Engine which hauls a heritage train through rainforest along 7 km of track on the 90 year old Ravenshoe to Tumoulin line. Its destination is Tumoulin, the highest railway station in Queensland.
Western Australia
Collie Historical Rail Precinct, WA
The Collie Historical Rail Precinct includes numerous structures including a locomotive Roundhouse, Old Goods Shed, Bill Weir Rolling Stock Shed and Railway Footbridge. The original Goods Shed, designed by C.Y. O’Connor and built in 1898 now houses an interpretive display and echoes to the sound of regular Sunday markets.
Walkaway Railway Station, Walkaway, WA
Walkaway, 9 km east of the historic village of Greenough, is a charming, tiny settlement of Walkaway with its railway station, store, hall, school and church. The Walkaway Railway Station is one the State's earliest Government-built railway complexes and the original terminus for Western Australia's northen line. The railway precinct includes the station, platform, goods shed, track levers, ramp, wishing well, weighbridge, cabin and loading ramp.
Merredin Railway Museum, Merredin, WA
Merredin is a major regional centre for the surrounding central agricultural district. It is promoted as the Garden Town of the Wheatbelt. The town's Grain Transfer Terminal, with its capacity of 220,000 tonnes, is the largest horizontal storage facility in the southern hemisphere. The station building, now home to Merredin Railway Museum, is a near-perfect re-creation of the old station with just about every piece of railway memorabilia possible. It has a working windmill, a beautifully preserved 1897 G117 steam engine, and the station still has the old scales and cream cans. It is one of the finest regional railway museums in Australia.
WA Rail Transport Museum, Bassendeen, WA
This museum is Western Australia's premier museum devoted to railway history. The collection is the only such one in Western Australia that aims to tell the story of all railways across the state, from Katie which was placed in service in 1881 when the Fremantle to Guildford Railway was built, through to more modern diesel locomotives. The complex also houses the West Australian Model Rail association, whose main display is a working scale model of the children's series Thomas the Tank Engine, complete with all the characters. Location: 136 Railway Parade, Bassendean, WA.
Hotham Valley Railway, Dwellingup, WA
The railway operates over a 32 kilometre section of the original Pinjarra to Narrogin railway line, and has its origins in a small group of enthusiasts who met together in 1974 with the object of preserving both Western Australian steam locomotives and the railway line itself, from Pinjarra at least as far as Dwellingup. Dwellingup is now the primary centre of Hotham Valley's operations. Today the railway operates both steam and diesel locomotive hauled trains on a variety of services and is staffed almost exclusively by volunteers.
South West Rail and Heritage Centre, Boyanup
The railway collection (locomotives, carriages and wagons) includes Leschenault Lady, steam locomotive H 18, bought in 1887 for the Bunbury-Boyanup railway, mobile museum van, carriages dating back to the 1890s, former Australind carriages, as well as diesel locomotives from Jardee Mill and Bunbury Power Station. Entry is free for under 18s. 19 years and over pay just $5. The South West Rail & Heritage Centre has regular open days, normally on the 4th Sunday of each month, with a special theme each time. Location: Turner Street Boyanup.
Old Northam Railway Station Museum
Located in the old railway station in Northam, this static museum contains an interesting collection of memorabilia associated with local railway operations. The collection includes an old restored steam engine with a few carriages. Additional displays cover early life in Northam. A small entry fee applies. Location: 401 Fitzgerald St W, Northam WA 6401
Revolutions Transport Museum, Whiteman Park
Revolutions Transport Museum is the home of the Whiteman Collection, Lew Whiteman’s bequest to the people of Western Australia. Each quarter, one of these special items from the Collection are displayed in the ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ in the foyer of the Museum. The displays explore how changes to land transport in Western Australia have transformed lives and shaped communities, both past and present.
Bennet Brook Railway, Whiteman Park
The Bennett Brook Railway operates steam and diesel trains over six kilometres of 610mm narrow gauge track, providing a unique railway experience through the bushland of Whiteman Park. On weekends and public holidays, services are half hourly from the Village Junction Station and hourly from Mussel Pool. During the week, you can enjoy a scenic trip around the bushland loop, departing from the Village Junction Station on the hour on their operating days.
Pemberton Tramway, Pemberton
The Pemberton Tramway meanders through towering Karri and Marri forests; over trestle bridges spanning rivers and streams, passing a saw mill while following a narrow gauge track built to haul out of the forests round Pemberton. In spring (September and October) the forest is resplendent with wildflowers. The tram driver gives an informative commentary on the forest, railway line and history of the region. Trams stop at the Cascades with time to alight and experience the feel of the forest before returning to Pemberton.
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