List of heritage railways in Australia
This is a list of heritage railways in Australia, some of which can also be considered tourist railways. For convenience, heritage tramways have also been included.
The world's second preserved railway, and the first outside the United Kingdom, was Australia's Puffing Billy Railway. This railway operates on 15 miles (24 km) of track, with much of its original rolling stock built as early as 1898.
New South Wales
Tully Sugar Mill No.6 at Illawarra Light Railway Museum
4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) gauge unless otherwise stated.
- Byron Bay Railroad
- Cooma Monaro Railway[1]
- Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum
- East Coast Heritage Rail
- Glenreagh Mountain Railway
- Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre
- Illawarra Light Railway Museum—Albion Park Rail—2 ft (610 mm) gauge.
- Lachlan Valley Railway
- New South Wales Rail Transport Museum—Thirlmere
- Oberon Tarana Heritage Railway
- Rail Motor Society—Paterson
- Richmond Vale Railway Museum
- Sydney Tramway Museum
- Valley Heights Rail Museum—Valley Heights
- Zig Zag Railway-3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Victoria
Puffing Billy train at Lakeside station
5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) unless otherwise noted
- Alexandra Timber Tramway—2 ft (610 mm) gauge.[2]
- Ballarat Tramway Museum—4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) gauge.
- Bendigo Tramways[3]—4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) gauge.
- Bellarine Peninsula Railway—3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge.
- Coal Creek Bush Tramway—2 ft (610 mm) gauge.[4]
- Daylesford Spa Country Railway
- GreenTrail—now a rail trail
- Kerrisdale Mountain Railway & Museum—2 ft (610 mm) gauge.[5]
- Mornington Railway
- Portland Cable Trams—4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) gauge.
- Puffing Billy Railway—2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge.
- Red Cliffs Historical Steam Railway—2 ft (610 mm) gauge.
- South Gippsland Railway (closed in January 2016)
- Victorian Goldfields Railway
- Walhalla Goldfields Railway—2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge.
- Yarra Valley Tourist Railway
Queensland
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge unless otherwise stated.
- Atherton—Herberton Historic Railway Inc.
- Australian Society of Section Car Operators, Inc.
- Ballyhooley Steam Railway(610mm)
- Beaudesert Rail—disbanded 2003
- Big Pineapple Railway (610mm)
- Brisbane Tramway Museum (1435mm)
- Bundaberg Steam Tramway Preservation Society Inc[6] (610mm)
- Burrum District Heritage Society (610mm)
- Cairns Kuranda Steam Limited Partnership (Savannahlander)
- DownsSteam Tourist Railway & Museum[7]
- Dreamworld Railway (610mm)
- Durundur Railway[8] (610mm)
- Ginger Factory Railway (610mm)
- Kuranda Scenic Railway
- Mackay Heritage Railway
- Mary Valley Rattler
- Maryborough City Whistle Stop Inc.
- Mount Morgan Railway Museum
- Normanton to Croydon Railway—Gulflander[9]
- Queensland Rail Ltd (Heritage)
- Ravenshoe Railway Company[10]
- Rockhampton Steam Tramway
- Rosewood Railway Museum[11]—operates a two-station section of line
- Southern Downs Steam Railway[12]
- Texas & Inglewood Heritage Railway Society Inc.
- Tinbeerwah Mountain Railway (610mm)
- Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway
South Australia
- Pichi Richi Railway—an operating 39 km (24 mi) narrow gauge (1067 mm / 3'-6") line between Quorn and Port Augusta
- SteamRanger Heritage Railway—an operating 84 km (52 mi) broad gauge (1600 mm / 5'-3") line from Mount Barker to Victor Harbor
- Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre at Peterborough—museum; evening sound-and-light displays
- National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide—large museum with short journeys on-site
- Tramway Museum, St Kilda—extensive tram and bus museum and a 1.8 km (1.1 mi) operating standard gauge (1435 mm / 4'-8 1⁄2") tram line.
- Eyre Peninsula Railway Preservation Society - Small museum which preserves the history of the Eyre Peninsula narrow gauge railway.
Western Australia
1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge unless otherwise stated.
- Bennett Brook Railway 2 ft (610 mm) gauge
- Golden Mile Loopline[13]
- Hotham Valley Railway
- Pemberton Tramway Company
- Wheatbelt Heritage Rail
Tasmania
Mount Lyell No. 3 of West Coast Wilderness Railway at Strahan Station
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge unless otherwise stated.
- Bush Mill Railway (closed in November 2004)
- Derwent Valley Railway Preservation Society (closed in 2005)
- Don River Railway
- Ida Bay Railway
- Wee Georgie Wood Railway 2 ft (610 mm)
- West Coast Wilderness Railway
Northern Territory
- Ghan Preservation Society ("The Old Ghan") 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge.
Australian Capital Territory
- Canberra Railway Museum—ARHS ACT (closed in 2016)
References
- Cooma Monaro Railway
- Alexandra Timber Tramway
- Bendigo Tramways
- "Association of Tourist Railways and Tramways - Member Railways". Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
- Kerrisdale Mountain Railway & Museum
- "Australian Sugar Cane Railway Bundaberg". Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- "DownsSteam Tourist Railway and Museum". Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- "The Durundur Railway". Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- Gulflander
- "Ravenshoe Heritage Steam Railway". Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- "Rosewodd Railway Museum". ARHS Queensland. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- Southern Downs Steam Railway
- services stopped 2004 but being rebuilt with new funding from 2015 on Loopline Railway & Museum
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