Canberra Railway Museum

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Name: Canberra Railway Museum

Location: Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula, Canberra, ACT

Opening hours: 1pm to 4pm on Sundays and public holidays | 11am to 4pm on the last Sunday of the month.

Description: The Canberra Railway Museum has some of the greatest railway exhibits on display in Australia. Indoor activity.

Price guide: $

Phone: (02) 6239 6707

Canberra Railway Museum has some of the most important and great railway exhibits in the nation such as the locomotive 1210 of 1878 that hauled the first train into Canberra in 1914.

There is also the restored tender locomotive 3016 that originally began as a tank engine hauling Sydney suburban trains. Then there is the 265tonne Beyer-Garratt steam locomotive 6029.

You can join a guided tour of the Canberra Railway Museum to see vintage wooden passenger cars and more modern stainless steel passenger cars. You can also visit the railway yard or the Society's restoration workshop. School tours are also available during weekdays.

If you come on the last Sunday of the month, rail motor rides operate from the museum platform and you can ride through the museum grounds from nearby Kingston Miniature Railway.