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Australia's largest collection of heritage rolling stock.
Established in 1962, The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum opened the Thirlmere Rail Heritage Centre in 1975.
Today it houses the largest collection of working and static rolling stock in Australia. It also has a small exhibits museum of railway artefacts and a signals shed with signalling and switching equipment dating back to the earliest days of steam.
Exhibit features
- Over 125 railway exhibits representing the development of the NSW railways from the 1800s to the present day
- A platform where visitors can see inside carriages and engine cabs
- Steam locomotives dating from 1865 to 1957
- Australia's most powerful steam locomotive - the mighty 260 tonne Garratt
- Early diesel and electric locomotives
- Sleeping cars, prison van, horse box, mail van
- Other special displays - signals, track vehicles, etc.
Exhibit Highlights
- Steam locomotives on display range from a very early goods loco built by Robert Stephenson in 1865, a variety of goods and passenger locos built between 1892 & 1930, to 'modern' steam types such as the express passenger 38 Class and the heavy goods Garratt type, built in the 1940s and 50s.
- Diesel and electric locomotives from the early 1950s, including 42, 43, 44, 442, 45, 46, 48 and 49 Classes
- The Camden Tram - steam loco 2029 and a small composite (multi-class) carriage
- Early goods vehicles
- Locomotive Instruction Car - originally an 1883 American-built sleeping car
- Early suburban electric carriages including a 'Bradfield' car and the world's first double-deck power car
- Enter and inspect fine timber sleeping cars dating from 1913, and our popular special cars such as the prison van, the horse box and the mail van
- See the unique 1868 8-wheel 'radial' carriage under restoration
FOR A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM'S EXHIBITS, CLICK ON THE LINKS IN THE MENU BAR.
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