Bennett Brook Railway - Perth, W.Australia

SillyBilly · Bennett Brook Railway - Perth, W.Australia

Hello,
This is one for the people down under! Well perhaps not all of you, I understand it's quite a big place

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http://www.git.com.au/~meads/bennettbrook/
This railway is within a mms of the gauge the railway that Simon & I work on. It has one operational ex-SAR NG15 2-8-2 & another presumably having a re-build. These are awsome engines worth seeing. We have some under re-build at the WHR. Has anyone been there?

Don't you live near Perth Tony, if you haven't been yet, it looks worth a visit, especially is the NG15 is working.

johnreid

I dont live down under, but enjoyed the site.

tmuir

Yes thats about 20 minutes from my house.
It in Whitman Park which also has a tractor museum which has one working traction engine and several more waiting for restoration, a working tram line,a car musem, a musem called revolutions which is all about public transport, bird sanctary and a wildlife park as well as a massive park with picnice spots and a little village of shops including a working printers shop that uses Victorian printing presses.

Here is a picture of Rosalie one of the Diesels they have there.
During the summer months due to firebans they can't run the steam locos
http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/about2487.html

Cranko

Sounds like it has a bit of everything,Nice

flywheel61

Looks great, will put in my to do list when we take off for the big trip around OZ in a couple of years time. Currently it would take about 5-6 days, at about 500km per day, to just get there,

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Cheers

Chris

Wallace

Great site SB, thanks for posting

Graham-Jilly

will put it on our list as well when we finaly doy our aussie trip
not long to go to be a member of the grey nomads

MTA

A lot of familiar looking locos there

Thanks for posting Will.

tmuir