Steamtown, Peterborough Railway Preservation Society Inc., Railway museum in Peterborough, South Australia.

Steamtown is a railway museum in Peterborough that displays locomotives, trains, carriages, and freight vehicles in a preserved depot and workshop facility. The site includes multiple buildings where you can view the vehicles and their interiors.

Peterborough railway station was an important junction for freight and passenger traffic in 19th century South Australia. The facility developed into a regional railway center that long played a role in the area's economic development.

The site shows how railways shaped daily life in the region and how people once traveled by train. The exhibits tell the story of this transport route's importance for trade and community.

The museum occupies the former South Australian Railways roundhouse and purpose-built sheds at Peterborough West, on the east-west corridor between Sydney and Perth. Visitors move between the roundhouse and the yard on foot, and the static displays are arranged around the former locomotive depot. Allow time to walk the whole site, since the collection is spread across several buildings.

The award-winning sound and light show at the Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre is staged in the former roundhouse and workshops, not in carriages. It recounts the story of South Australia's early railways and the town's years as a major railway centre, when more than 1,000 people worked here handling over 100 passing trains a day.