Illawarra Light Railway Museum

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

Illawarra Light Railway Museum
Location within New South Wales
Illawarra Light Railway Museum (Australia)
Established1972
Location48a Tongarra Rd
Albion Park Rail New South Wales Australia
Coordinates34.568528°S 150.792049°E / -34.568528; 150.792049
TypeLight Railway museum
Nearest car parkOn site
WebsiteOfficial Site

History

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society Ltd. was started in 1972 with railway operations commencing in 1974 dedicated to preserving Light Railway history & Illawarra industrial history. In 2007 the society obtained federal funding for the construction of the Ken McCarthy Museum Building, which was officially opened in December 2007.[1]

Operations

The Museum is opened on

  • Work Days being Tuesdays, Thursdays.
  • Running Days every second Sunday and Forth Saturday of each 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 McCarthy Museum Building
  • Arthur Moore Stationary Engine Display

Exhibits
Steam Locomotives
No.DescriptionManufacturerYearOperatorex-RailwayStatusRef
Wallaby0-4-0ST Works LocomotiveHawthorn Leslie and Company1913Hoskins Lithgow Steel WorksLithgow BHP Port Kembla retired in 1963static exhibit Wallaby
Cairns0-6-0 Cane LocomotiveHudswell Clarke Leeds1939Colonial Sugar RefineryEdmonton| Retire from CSR Victoria Mill 1976 |out of service 2018 at Albion Park. Cairns
Tully 60-6-2ST Cane LocomotivePerry Engineering Co South Australia1949Tully Sugar MillTullyout of service 2018. Tully 6
Burra0-4-0ST Works LocomotiveHawthorn Leslie and Company Newcastle upon Tyne1923Australian Iron & SteelCorrimaloperational Burra
Kiama0-4-0ST Construction LocomotiveDavenport Locomotive Works Iowa USA1913NSW Public Works Deptvariousoperational Kiama
Kiama Fowler0-4-0 Quarry LocomotiveJohn Fowler & Co. Leeds1923Kiama Quarries limitedKiamaunder restoration Kiama Fowler
Shay4W+4W Logging LocomotiveLima Locomotive Works Ohio USAc1900A & D Munro TramwayHamptonunder reconstruction 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.

  • Wallaby 0-4-0ST Locomotive
  • Kiama 0-4-0ST Locomotive
  • Cairns 0-6-0 Locomotive
  • Tully Sugar Mill No.6
  • Burra 0-4-0ST Locomotive

See also

References
  1. "The Ken McCarthy Museum Building".


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