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The Puffing Billy Railway is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beginning of the 20th century.
Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, [1] [2] constructed in 1813–1814 by colliery viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom.
Many of Victoria's preserved railway groups operate dining trains on a regular basis, ranging from annually to daily. Examples include the Ale trains on the Mornington and Victorian Goldfields lines, the Luncheon and Night Train specials on Puffing Billy and the Q Train and Blues Train on the Queenscliff line.
In the 2010s, the Puffing Billy Railway began investigating options for increasing its passenger fleet to cater for increased tourist traffic, with an interest expressed in twelve additional carriages. [34] This would be enough to form an extra block train, above the maximum four trains in service on the busiest days each year at present.
Lakeside railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Melbourne, Australia.It was opened in 1944 to serve Emerald Lake Park, a popular picnic and recreation reserve created during World War II.
The Puffing Billy Running Festival is an annual event held between Belgrave and Emerald Lake. The event includes a 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) kids dash, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) fun run, 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi) classic, and a 21.1 kilometres (13.1 mi) half marathon, which has been held in the third quarter of the year since 2023.
It is the inner terminal of the famous Puffing Billy heritage steam railway. Belgrave (Puffing Billy) is adjacent to, and forms an interchange with, Belgrave suburban railway station, which is the outer terminal of the Belgrave line of Melbourne's broad gauge (5 ft 3in) electric suburban network. The suburban station is accessible via a short ...
Wright railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway, Melbourne, Australia.. It opened on 24 October 1904 as part of the Gembrook railway line. It served the Wright Forest and small township of Avonsleigh, and consisted of only a small Mallee shed and a name board.