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Illawarra Light Railway Museum

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum operates a mainline narrow gauge light railway, a miniature gauge railway, and a museum located in Albion Park Rail, New South Wales, Australia.

History

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society was founded in February 1972. the Museum site was leased from Shellharbour City Council and the Leased sinned in 1974, with railway operations commencing in 1974 dedicated to preserving Light Railway history and Illawarra industrial history. It was officially opened on 10 November 1984. In 2007 the society obtained federal funding for the construction of the Ken McCarthy Museum Building, which was officially opened in December 2007.

Operations

The Museum is opened on the Second Sunday and Fourth Saturday of each month from 10am to 2pm

  • Work Days being Tuesdays, Thursdays.
  • Running Days every second Sunday and fourth Saturday of each month.

The museum site consist of the following features:

  • Yallah station building, arrived May 1976
  • Otford Signal Box, arrived 1985
  • Souvenir Shop & Kiosk
  • Workshop and Locomotive & Carriage Storage Shed
  • Ken McCarthy Museum Building
  • Arthur Moore Stationary Engine Display

Exhibits

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

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