Illawarra Light Railway Museum

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Illawarra Light Railway Museum
Tully Sugar Mill No. 6th
Data
place 48 Tongarra Rd
Albion Park Rail

New South Wales , Australia

Art
Railway Museum
opening 1973
Website

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum operates a 2- foot narrow-gauge railroad and a 7¼- inch (184 mm ) park railroad, and a museum near Albion Park Rail at Wollongong, south of Sydney .

history

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society Ltd. was founded in 1973 and rail operations began in 1974 with the aim of preserving the historic narrow-gauge railways and local industrial buildings and making them accessible.

opening hours

The museum is open as follows:

  • Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday (except public holidays)
  • Every second Sunday of the month with driving

Exhibits

building

The following buildings are located on the museum grounds:

  • Yallah station building
  • Otford signal interlocking
  • Fettler's shed
  • Souvenir shop and kiosk
  • Railway depot and a locomotive and car shed
  • Ken NcCarthy Museum Building

vehicles

Steam locomotives
Surname description Manufacturer year operator Previous owner status swell
Wallaby 0-4-0ST factory locomotive Hawthorn, Leslie & Company 1913 Hoskins Lithgow Steel Works Lithgow not ready to drive Wallaby
Cairns 0-6-0 sugar cane locomotive Hudswell Clarke Leeds 1939 Colonial Sugar Refinery Edmonton operational Cairns
Tully 6 0-6-2ST sugar cane locomotive Perry Engineering Co South Australia 1949 Tully Sugar Mill Tully operational Tully 6
Burra 0-4-0ST factory locomotive Hawthorn, Leslie & Company Newcastle upon Tyne 1923 Australian Iron & Steel Corrimal operational Burra
Kiama 0-4-0ST construction site 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 wood transport locomotive Lima Locomotive Works Ohio USA c1900 A&D Munro Tramway Hampton is being restored Shay
Horse-drawn explosives cart at the Dry Creek explosives storage facility near Adelaide

In addition to the wooden trams, the horse-drawn explosive gates of the Dry Creek explosives store are particularly worth seeing.

photos

  • Wallaby 0-4-0ST locomotive

  • Kiama 0-4-0ST locomotive

  • Cairns 0-6-0 locomotive

  • Burra 0-4-0ST locomotive

Web links

Commons : Illawarra Light Railway Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 34 ° 34 ′ 0.8 ″  S , 150 ° 47 ′ 34.4 ″  E