Illawarra Light Railway Museum

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Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 314: malformed pattern (missing ']'). The Illawarra Light Railway Museum operates a mainline 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge light railway, a miniature 7 1⁄4 in (184 mm) gauge railway, and a museum located near Albion Park Rail near Wollongong, south of Sydney, New South Wales

History

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society Ltd. was started in 1973 with railway operations commencing in 1974 dedicated to preserving Light Railway history & Illawarra industrial history.[1]

Operations

The Museum is opened on

  • Work Days being Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays and
  • Running Days every second Sunday of the month

The museum site consist of the following features:

  • Yallah Station Building
  • Otford Signal Box
  • Fettlers Shed
  • Souvenir Shop & Kiosk
  • Workshop and Locomotive & Carriage Storage Shed
  • Ken NcCarthy Museum Building

Exhibits

Steam Locomotives
No. Description Manufacturer Year Operator ex-Railway Status Ref
Wallaby 0-4-0ST Works Locomotive Hawthorn Leslie and Company 1913 Hoskins Lithgow Steel Works Lithgow static exhibit Wallaby
Cairns 0-6-0 Cane Locomotive Hudswell Clarke Leeds 1939 Colonial Sugar Refinery Edmonton operational Cairns
Tully 6 0-6-2ST Cane Locomotive Perry Engineering Co South Australia 1949 Tully Sugar Mill Tully operational Tully 6
Burra 0-4-0ST Works Locomotive Hawthorn Leslie and Company Newcastle upon Tyne 1923 Australian Iron & Steel Corrimal operational Burra
Kiama 0-4-0ST Construction Locomotive Davenport Locomotive Works Iowa USA 1913 NSW Public Works Dept various operational Kiama
Kiama Fowler 0-4-0 Quarry Locomotive John Fowler & Co. Leeds 1923 Kiama Quarries limited Kiama stored Kiama Fowler
Shay 4W+4W Logging Locomotive Lima Locomotive Works Ohio USA c1900 A & D Munro Tramway Hampton under restoration Shay
File:Horse-drawn explosives carrying wagon in the Dry Creek Explosive Magazine in South Australia.jpg
Horse-drawn wagon of the Dry Creek explosives depot near Adelaide

Apart from the wooden trams, the horse-drawn wagon of the Dry Creek explosives depot near Adelaide is particularly noteworthy.

Gallery

  • Wallaby 0-4-0ST Locomotive a.jpg

    Wallaby 0-4-0ST Locomotive

  • Kiama 0-4-0ST Locomotive a.jpg

    Kiama 0-4-0ST Locomotive

  • Cairns 0-6-0 Locomotive.jpg

    Cairns 0-6-0 Locomotive

  • Tully Sugar Mill No.6 e.jpg

    Tully Sugar Mill No.6

  • Burra 0-4-0ST Locomotive

See also

References

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