The South Maitland Railway was once an extensive network of privately owned colliery and passenger railway lines which served the South Maitland coalfields in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia and were the second last system in Australia to use steam haulage, having used steam locomotives until 1983.
Weston water tank, note AA Co. cast into end panels
South Maitland Railway railcar No.1 travelling between Weston and Abermain in July 1962
SMR 10 at Maitland during Hunter Valley Steamfest in 2006
Neath Signal box, Feb 1995
South Maitland coalfields
The South Maitland coalfields was the most extensive coalfield in New South Wales until the great coal mining slump of the 1960s. It was discovered by Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson's party when they were engaged in an exploratory visit to the Hunter Valley during July 1801.
remains of Aberdare South Colliery, near Abernethy