Tuesday, 7 June, 2022 - 10:15
- Located just over an hour from Sydney
- Students can ride onboard a 1920s railmotor
- Choose a self or guide-led tour
- Teacher notes and resources provided
- A 5-hectare site with an impressive collection of rolling stock and other rail heritage items.
The NSW Rail Museum immerses students in the State’s rich rail history, with its vast collection and interactive displays providing hands-on teaching and learning opportunities. Students can even enjoy a short heritage train ride along the historic Loop Line, formally known as the Great Southern Railway, which brought economic opportunities to the region in the 1860s.
Just one hour from Sydney, the NSW Rail Museum connects to curricula for primary school, and high school science and history content, and is a fun day out for vacation and daycare groups. It offers guide- and self-led tours supported by teacher resources.
The railways revolutionised the lives of ordinary people in NSW: they brought people together, allowed the transport of goods and services across great distances and into new areas, introduced ‘railway time’ and timetabling, provided people with jobs and built communities. Each object on display at the NSW Rail Museum has its own story to tell about the social, economic, and technological significance of the railways to the state’s history.
The NSW Rail Museum features:
- a large and modern museum exhibition building with interactive displays
- a working Roundhouse where engine restoration and maintenance are conducted
- a history presentation with locomotive 1021 in the Theatrette
- an impressive range of rolling stock in the Great Train Hall, plus
- an operating historic station precinct including signal box, stationmasters’ cottage and goods shed.
Students can learn how steam engines work, what jobs people had in the railways along Workers’ Walk, see the opulent Governor General’s carriage, listen to the voices in the gaol carriage which used to carry criminals across NSW, and climb inside the mail carriage.
From steam and diesel engines to the electrification of the system in 1926, students can gain an insight into how rail history impacts our suburban rail network today.
Lunch can be enjoyed in our Forecourt Park with play equipment.
Bus and coach parking available.
The NSW Rail Museum is proudly operated by Transport Heritage NSW.
For more information, visit the NSW Rail Museum website.
To book, email [email protected] or call 1300 11 55 99.