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 in Albion Park Rail, New South Wales, Australia.

Illawarra Light Railway Museum
Illawarra Light Railway Museum is located in New South Wales
Illawarra Light Railway Museum
Location within New South Wales
Illawarra Light Railway Museum is located in Australia
Illawarra Light Railway Museum
Illawarra Light Railway Museum (Australia)
Established1972
Location48A Tongarra Road
Albion Park Rail, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates34.568528°S 150.792049°E / -34.568528; 150.792049
TypeLight Railway museum
Nearest car parkOn site
Websitewww.ilrms.com.au

History

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society was founded in 1972 with railway operations commencing in 1974 dedicated to preserving Light Railway history and Illawarra industrial history.[1] It was officially opened on 10 November 1984.[2] In 2007 the society obtained federal funding for the construction of the Ken McCarthy Museum Building, which was officially opened in December 2007.[3]

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, arrived May 1976[4][5]
  • Otford Signal Box, arrived 1985[6]
  • 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
Cairns0-6-0Hudswell Clarke1939Colonial Sugar RefineryEdmonton, retired from CSR Victoria Mill 1976On display [7]
Tully 60-6-2STPerry Engineering1949Tully Sugar MillTullyOverhaul [8]
Burra0-4-0STHawthorn Leslie & Company1923Australian Iron & SteelCorrimalOperational [9]
Kiama0-4-0STDavenport Locomotive Works1913NSW Public Works DepartmentKiama QuarriesOperational [10]
ShayShay locomotiveLima Locomotive Worksc1900Munro TramwayHamptonStored [11]

Apart from the wooden trams, a horse-drawn wagon of the Dry Creek explosives depot near Adelaide is particularly noteworthy.

References
  1. Illawarra Light Rail Museum Society Trolley Wire issue 151 April 1974 page 21
  2. Official Opening Trolley Wire issue 216 February 1985 page 28
  3. The Ken McCarthy Museum Building Illawarra Light Railway Museum
  4. Illawarra Light Railway Museum Railway Digest June 1976 page 92
  5. Yallah Station Trolley Wire issue 164 June 1976 page 34
  6. Otford Signal Box Illawarra Light Railway Museum
  7. Cairns Illawarra Light Railway Museum
  8. Tully 6 Illawarra Light Railway Museum
  9. Burra Illawarra Light Railway Museum
  10. Kiama Illawarra Light Railway Museum
  11. Shay Illawarra Light Railway Museum
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