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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.
The other two units, 3 and 5NC, remained in Victorian Railways service until transferred to the Emerald Tourist Railway Board. Puffing Billy Railway currently has former NAB AB s 2 and 4 in service as 26NAC and 24NB respectively, along with vans 2NC and 5NC. The Railway also has 3NC, 6NC, 8NB and 14NB awaiting restoration.
NA class locomotive 6A, preserved on the Puffing Billy Railway in the original green livery used by the Victorian Railways until 1903. Photographed at Gembrook in 2006. The former Victorian Railways, the state railway authority in Victoria, Australia, built a number of experimental 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge lines 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.
Puffing Billy Railway— 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge. [79] Red Cliffs Historical Steam Railway— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. [80] Steamrail Victoria—Newport; South Gippsland Railway (railway operation ceased from January 2016) Tramway Heritage Centre, Byland [81] (tramway operation ceased 2009)
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 .
Emerald railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Victoria, Australia. [1] It was opened with the Railway on 18 December 1900 and comprised a platform track and a loop siding. [ 2 ]
Clematis railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway. It was opened on 10 March 1902 as Paradise Valley. The name was shortened to Paradise in 1908 and changed to Clematis in 1921. Trains rarely stop here, except by prior arrangement, often for groups travelling to the Paradise Hotel (behind the station).