West Coast Wilderness Railway [abt.]

11th February 2005

The West Coast Wilderness Railway has been a tourism venture, re-opening the old mining line that was unique in using a rack system to combat 1 in 17 grades. Also the two steam locos nos 1 and 3 according to the official website are probalbly the oldest fully restored working locomotives in the world. Indeed No 1 ''Mt. Lyell'' was at the original railways opening back in March 1897. The line is about 35kilometres long running from Queenstown to Regatta Point [ Strahan].

1843x1228 D-1.JPG	1843x1228 Kitchen-car-no-018.JPG	2898x1571 Timetable.jpg	No1 at Queenstown 11-2-05 3072x2048 No1-Mt-Lyell-at-Queenstown.jpg
No1 in Queenstown station ready to leave with the morning train 11-2-05 2519x1967 Morning-train-ready-to-leave-Queenstown.jpg	No1 leaving Queenstown, Strahan bound 11-2-05 3072x2048 Leaving-Queenstown-1.jpg	1228x1843 Just_leaving_Queenstown.jpg	3072x2048 Inside-impressive-station-at-Queenstown.jpg
3072x2048 Inside-impressive-station-at-Queenstown.jpg	D-1 after arriving at Strahan 11-2-05 3072x2048 D1_Regatta_Point.jpg	Another view of D1 at Regatta Point 11-2-05 3072x2048 D1-and-train-at-RegattaPoint.jpg	D-1 at Regatta Point after running around its train 11-2-05 3072x2048 D-1-at-Regatta-Point.jpg