Illawarra Light Railway Museum

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum operates a mainline narrow gauge light railway, a miniature  gauge railway, and a museum located near Albion Park Rail near Wollongong, south of Sydney, New South Wales

History
The Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society Ltd. was started in 1972 with railway operations commencing in 1974 dedicated to preserving Light Railway history & Illawarra industrial history. In 2007 the society obtained federal funding for the construction of the Ken McCarthy Museum Building, which was officially opened in December 2007.

Operations
The Museum is opened on
 * Work Days being Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays and
 * Running Days every second Sunday of the month

The museum site consist of the following features:


 * Yallah Station Building
 * Otford Signal Box
 * Fettlers Shed
 * Souvenir Shop & Kiosk
 * Workshop and Locomotive & Carriage Storage Shed
 * Ken McCarthy Museum Building
 * Arthur Moore Stationary Engine Display

Exhibits


Apart from the wooden trams, the horse-drawn wagon of the Dry Creek explosives depot near Adelaide is particularly noteworthy.