Illawarra Light Railway Museum

Illawarra Light Railway Museum

Established	1973
Location	48 Tongarra Rd Albion Park Rail New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	34°34′07″S 150°47′31″E / 34.568528°S 150.792049°E
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 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

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

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  Wallaby 0-4-0ST Locomotive

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  Kiama 0-4-0ST Locomotive

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  Cairns 0-6-0 Locomotive

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  Tully Sugar Mill No.6

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  Burra 0-4-0ST Locomotive

See also

• List of heritage railways in Australia

References

1. "About the ILRMS".

External links