Casino Old Railway Museum - Casino
Direct Phone Number : (02) 6662 1924
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The Casino Railway Musuem can be visited on Sunday by accessing the Casino Mini Railway.
The Mini Rail offers a 25 minute ride on minature trains which meander through the Jabiru Wetlands and stop at the old Railway Museum, which houses memorabilia from the early days when Casino was known as a railway town.
Brief Background
In late 1989, a railway club was formed by Northern Rivers people. The initial aim was to get a train to run on the Murwillumbah line, but up to October 1989, the group had concentrated on saving the rail infrastructure at Casino. As though frozen in time, little had changed since the 1930s. The sector house survived with 70 foot turntable, wheel lathe, ash pits, water and sand towers, and the last remaining coal loader in NSW, a Harmon coal plant. The main line yard was a maze of tracks and old wooden signals, worked by an 86 level signal box. And there was Old Casino, threatened with demolition by the SRA. The club joined forces with the townspeople to save it as a museum and base for a standard gauge train.