Mary Valley Heritage Railway
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 The Valley Rattler, C17 802
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| Route length: | 40 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Mary Valley Heritage Railway (MVHR) is a 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in ) gauge, 40 km long, museum railroad that runs from Gympie through the Mary River Valley to the Cooloola region of Queensland , Australia .
route
The museum railway is a major tourist attraction in the area and is run by a non-profit association with 12 paid employees and many volunteers. It is considered the third largest museum railroad in Australia.
The Queensland Government's Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation conducted an analysis of the railroad's operating costs in 2010. It found that the railroad is operating at a significant loss and is dependent on government financial support.
The maximum speed is limited to 25 km / h and at some level crossings you have to brake to 5 km / h. After security concerns were raised in 2011, government experts found no significant problems.
If the roads become impassable and blocked during major floods, the railroad is used as feeder traffic to the towns enclosed by the water.
Excursions
The Ride The Rattler excursion tours are operated by the Mary Valley Heritage Railway (MVHR) every Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday from 10:00 am from the historic Gympie train station, which dates back to the 1870s. Pulled by a historic steam locomotive of the Queensland C17 class, the train crosses the Mary River, drives through many curves, negotiates inclines and declines, crosses the Yabba, Kandanga and Amamoor Creeks on historical bridges and passes the small rural villages of Dagun , Amamoor and Kandanga and passes through a short tunnel until it arrives in Imbil after a 40 km journey . The stations of Kandanga, Amamoor and Melawondi as well as the milk can house called Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds are listed buildings.
According to the website, there is currently (March 2015) no operation.
Web links
- Valley Rattler webpage. Retrieved March 8, 2015 .
literature
- Rod Milne: The Mary Valley Branch Line , Australian Railway History | Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, December 1996, pp. 363-374.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Lane: 75 years of 3ft 6in gauge Queensland-built railcars. Railways Illustrated, March 2008, Volume 6, Issue 3, p. 59. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ↑ a b Lee Gailer: Pamphlet targets tourism asset . In: Sunshine Coast Daily , Sunshine Coast Newspaper Company, March 22, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ↑ Heritage railway downplays demise talk . In: ABC News , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, August 3, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ↑ problem arise for the Mary Valley Heritage Railway . Interactive Omnimedia. April 20, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ↑ Bruce Atkinson: Fears aired over train track safety . In: ABC News , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 31, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ↑ Jodie van de Wetering: Rattler keeps flood-split Gympie connected . In: ABC Wide Bay , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, January 12, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ↑ Gympie's heritage still on track, Media Release, Queensland Heritage Council, July 8, 2013. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds (entry no. 32241) ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved July 8, 2013 and March 8, 2015.
Coordinates: 26 ° 27 ′ 37.8 ″ S , 152 ° 40 ′ 33.7 ″ E