NSW Rail Museum, Railway museum in Thirlmere, Australia.
NSW Rail Museum is a railway museum in Thirlmere that holds Australia's largest collection of heritage rolling stock. The exhibition spreads across multiple halls and displays a wide range of locomotives and carriages from different time periods.
Founded in 1962 to preserve Australian railway heritage, the museum displays authentic steam locomotives, passenger cars, and equipment from different periods of Australian history. The collection documents the evolution of rail transport across several decades.
The museum shows how railways shaped the development of New South Wales communities through objects, photographs, and stories from railway workers and passengers that visitors can explore. These accounts help reveal the importance of rail travel in people's daily lives.
The museum is about 90 kilometers south of Sydney and can be reached by car via the M5 motorway. Visitors should know that heritage train rides mainly run on weekends and during school holidays.
The museum preserves a 32-meter turntable from the former Enfield steam depot that still works and is used to maintain the operational heritage fleet in the roundhouse facility. This large turntable is a rare example of functioning railway infrastructure from the steam locomotive era.
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