Illawarra Light Railway Museum

Illawarra Light Railway Museum
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Established	1972
Location	48a Tongarra Rd; Albion Park Rail New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	34°34′07″S 150°47′31″E / 34.568528°S 150.792049°ECoordinates: 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

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.	Description	Manufacturer	Year	Operator	ex-Railway	Status	Ref
Wallaby	0-4-0ST Works Locomotive	Hawthorn Leslie and Company	1913		Lithgow BHP Port Kembla retired in 1963	static exhibit	Wallaby
Cairns	0-6-0 Cane Locomotive	Hudswell Clarke Leeds	1939	Colonial Sugar Refinery	Edmonton\| Retire from CSR Victoria Mill 1976 \|out of service 2018 at Albion Park.	Cairns
Tully 6	0-6-2ST Cane Locomotive	Perry Engineering Co South Australia	1949	Tully Sugar Mill	Tully	out of service 2018.	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	under restoration	Kiama Fowler
Shay	4W+4W Logging Locomotive	Lima Locomotive Works Ohio USA	c1900	A & D Munro Tramway	Hampton	under 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.

Gallery[]

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

References[]

^ "The Ken McCarthy Museum Building".

External links[]

www.ilrms.com.au (Official Website)

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[1] "The Ken McCarthy Museum Building".

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