Newport Railway Museum, Train museum in Newport, Australia

The Newport Railway Museum occupies a site on Champion Road beside the North Williamstown station and holds the largest surviving collection of Victorian Railways steam locomotives, along with diesel and electric locomotives, passenger carriages, freight wagons, guards vans, cranes and a signal box. Exhibits stand on tracks in the open yard, and roof canopies completed in 2017, 2020 and 2023 now shelter the oldest steam locomotives, four wooden carriages and H220 Heavy Harry.

The museum opened on 10 November 1962, after the Australian Railway Historical Society's Victorian Division was given space at the Newport Workshops by the Victorian Railways to keep key steam locomotives then being replaced by diesel and electric traction. By the late 1980s it had added early diesel and electric locomotives nearing the end of their own working lives. A VicTrack safety audit closed it in February 2010; it reopened in March 2014, and on 16 June 2020 the volunteer-formed Newport Railway Museum Inc. took over the site lease.

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.