Puffing Billy Railway is a tourist railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong near Melbourne .
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This road became the first museum railway line outside the UK . More than half a century of history of maintaining and maintaining the working condition of ancient equipment and the railway itself and its location near Melbourne made the road one of the most famous historical railways in the world [1] .
The road is 25 km 100 meters long; there are 11 stations and stopping points on the road. The center of the road is Belgrave station. Here is an office, ticket office, here you can have a bite to eat, buy souvenirs. Train tickets can also be purchased directly in the car from the guides. Other stations: Menzies Creek, Emerald, Lakeside, Cockatoo, Gembrook.
At the Belgrave station, there are a train depot , a technical base for servicing the track facilities of the road.
Trains on the road run daily, along several lines of the schedule (from three to six). Departing from Belgrave station they follow to Lakeside station or to the final Gembrook and then return back. Travels take place in antique wagons and in the head of the train there is always a steam locomotive of the century ago. Passengers often ride leaning out of the open windows of cars.
There is also a Dinner Train which runs in the evenings of Friday or Saturday, it leaves from Belgrave station and goes to Nobelius Siding where passengers disembark and have dinner in the premises of the former warehouse. After dinner, passengers board the train and are served drinks on the way back to Belgreev.
History
The road was opened in 1900. In 1953, a landslide descended on one of the sections of the road and, in connection with this, it was closed. In 1955, the Puffing Billy Preservation Society was formed. The road was still controlled by the company VR owned by the state of Victoria . The members of the company, together with VR, agreed that the company would pay off VR losses from the operation of the line and launched train runs on weekends. They assigned volunteers from their ranks to raise funds and check tickets. So it was possible to exploit the road until 1958. In 1962, the road was reopened, but traffic was only possible between Belgrave and Menzies Creek.
Notes
- ↑ Friends Of The Trestle Bridge . Date of treatment September 8, 2015.