Silver Stream Railway

Silver Stream Railway is a railway museum in Lower Hutt that operates restored locomotives and rolling stock on a 1.5-kilometer section of the former Wellington to Upper Hutt line. The site displays steam and diesel locomotives alongside historical passenger carriages from different decades, which visitors can examine and ride on during operating days.

The collection started in 1967 when the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society began gathering locomotives and equipment from across the country. The project grew into an operating museum dedicated to preserving railway technology from different eras of New Zealand's transport history.

Visitors experience New Zealand's railway heritage through operational steam locomotives, diesel engines, and historical passenger carriages from different periods. The trains run on a real section of track, allowing people to encounter how these machines sounded and moved during their working years.

The museum operates on specific days each month and offers visitors the chance to ride on historic trains as well as explore the vehicles in workshops and along the tracks. The grounds are easily accessible and have basic facilities, with the best time to visit being a sunny day to get the most from a train ride.

The name comes from Hull's Creek, a silver-colored stream that flows beside the tracks through the Hutt Valley. This unusual name reminds visitors of the close ties between the railway line and the local landscape it passed through.