Behind the Railway Workshop Doors
A guided tour around and inside four large railway objects undergoing restoration; a steam locomotive designed and built in Australia during WW2, a railway carriage built in 1879, a 1912 steam crane and a small Fordson tractor powered locomotive.
A rare opportunity to inspect these locomotives, carriage and steam crane close up whilst they are being restored to operational condition, Team leaders of the volunteers carrying out the work will tell you about each item’s history and significance. What is being done to repair them and and how it is being carried out. Old skills and techniques are in some cases combined with new materials to enable these historic items to return to operational condition.