The Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre is a railway museum located in the former South Australian Railways workshops in Peterborough, South Australia. Peterborough was the administrative and service centr
Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre logo
The turntable, with its three different rail gauges
Switch using 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) / 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) track, between the roundhouse and the Peterborough West washout facilities
Part of the roundhose showing some of the museum's rolling stock
The South Australian Railways 400 class comprised ten 4-8-2+2-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built in France in 1952 and 1953 under licence to Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd, Manchester, UK. The locomoti
Preserved Beyer-Garratt loco 409 at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
Preserved Garratt 409 at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
In 1968, Garratts 402 (leading) and 401 ready to depart Jamestown for Peterborough and the New South Wales border
Garratts 402 and 401 at Jamestown in the late 1960s