Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum

The Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum is an Australian railway museum in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.. It is attached to a tourist railway. It is operated by the Road Transport Historical Society which also operates the adjacent National Road Transport Hall of Fame.

Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum
Established1981
LocationNorris Bell Avenue, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Coordinates
TypeRailway

History

Following the closure of the Central Australia Railway, after a new standard gauge line to Alice Springs opened in 1980, the Ghan Preservation Society was formed in 1981 negotiated lease on a 25 kilometre section of the closed line from McDonnell Siding, just south side of Alice Springs, to Ewaninga Siding with Australian National.[1] Work proceeded slowly until a $800,000 grant was made by the Australian Bicentennial Authority in 1987.[2] The line was reopened in October 1988.[3][4]

Services were operated by WAGR W class steam locomotive W924 and Commonwealth Railways NSU class diesel locomotive NSU58 hauling carriages formerly used on The Ghan.[5][6] Services no longer operate, with the rolling stock now on static display.[7]

References
  1. Ghan Preservation Society The Recorder March 1981 page 74
  2. Here & There Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin issue 598 August 1987 page 61
  3. A New Life Begins for the Old Ghan Network October 1988 page 53
  4. Ghan Preservation Society Opens Catch Point issue 69 January 1989 page 26
  5. Ghan Preservation Society Continental Railway Journal issue 82 June 1990 page 356
  6. McKillop, Robert (1999). Guide to Australian Heritage Trains & Railway Museums (7 ed.). Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 120. ISBN 0909650454.
  7. Old Ghan Heritage Railway National Road Transport Hall of Fame

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