The Steamtown Peterborough Railway Preservation Society Inc. was a not-for-profit incorporated society that operated a heritage steam railway from Peterborough, South Australia, north along a section
When the technical expertise needed for steam operation was readily available in Peterborough among current and former railway employees, the society ran many excursions. In May 1984, locomotive Pmr720 hauled glistening ex-Commonwealth Railways cars across the floodway bridge 2 km south of Black Rock
Former Commonwealth Railways NC class diesel-hydraulic locomotive NC1 on a society work train
The depot built by the society at Peterborough West; trackwork was recovered from abandoned sidings
In the society's heyday, excursions ran through Walloway (pictured in 2006) to Eurelia.
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