Newport Railway Museum, Train museum in Newport, Australia
The Newport Railway Museum is a railway museum in Newport, Melbourne, holding a large outdoor collection of steam, diesel, and electric locomotives alongside freight wagons from different eras of Australian rail. The vehicles are displayed on tracks in an open yard, with a small covered area for some of the older pieces.
The museum was founded in 1962 after the Australian Railway Historical Society was given space at the Newport Workshops to save locomotives from being scrapped. Over the following decades the collection grew into a permanent record of how Australian railways developed technically.
The museum is run by volunteers who spent their working lives on the railways and are happy to talk about what they know. This gives a visit a personal quality that goes well beyond reading a label on a locomotive.
The museum is on Champion Road in Newport and is open on Saturdays, with extra Sunday openings during school holidays. Because most of the collection is outdoors, it helps to wear comfortable shoes and check the weather before you go.
H220 Heavy Harry, the largest locomotive ever built in Australia, stands here alongside F176, which is the oldest surviving steam locomotive in Victoria. Together these two machines mark the beginning and the peak of Australian locomotive building.
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