Illawarra Light Railway Museum

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Illawarra Light Railway Museum
File:Tully Sugar Mill No.6.jpg
Established 1973
Location 48 Tongarra Rd
Albion Park Rail New South Wales Australia
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Type Light Railway museum
Nearest car park On site
Website Official Site

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum operates a mainline 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge light railway, a miniature 7 14 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

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

Gallery

See also

References

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