Glenreagh Mountain Railway - Australia

Glenreagh Mountain Railway, known as the GMR, was established in 1989 as a heritage tourist railway at Glenreagh, near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. GMR's objective is to restore and operate a heritage tourist railway on the Glenreagh to Ulong section of the Glenreagh to Dorrigo railway line.

GMR is a non-profit, community-based organisation run entirely by volunteers, and has an authority to raise funds under the Charitable Collections Act.

The GMR acquired the 35-kilometre section to Ulong in 1999 from the then State Rail Authority of New South Wales, and is currently restoring this section of line as well as rolling stock, to enable the heritage tourist railway to operate.

GMR's current rolling stock includes steam locomotive Z19 class 1919, 4-wheel watergin L568, TAM sleeping car, 2 heritage end-platform cars, S trucks, ex-Sydney interurban cars ("U-boats") and numerous trikes and track maintenance vehicles.

As of December 2005, GMR has completed trackwork to safe working standards for train operation from Glenreagh West Depot 3.5 km west to Talawajah Creek. Steam train operations are scheduled one weekend a month subject to fire bans.

Glenreagh Mountain Railways is not currently operating. This is due to the fact that we have not yet managed to renew our safety accreditation, which ran out at the end of January 2008. We are working hard to achieve this, and return to our previous operations. At the moment, it is not possible to give a reliable estimate of when this will be.

For more information please visit GMR website http://www.gmr.org.au/

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[Roco43]

@Mikal2475 The last I heard was that vandals had trashed the engine and carriages, so I don't think this will be running again. A great pity as it was a popular attraction for the town..

[Mikal2475]

@Roco43 You'd be amazed at what the railway preservation movement can do, such as the Severn Valley Railway rebuilding its line, and we've had a line that also lost it's safety case in 2001 and are now halfway back to their original terminus

[Roco43]

@Mikal2475 Thanks, I don't think it will, too much Government red tape these days. Yes there is a long line of loco's at Dorrigo. You can see them elsewhere on this site.

[Mikal2475]

A great railway. Hope you get running again and get to Dorrigo. I heard there's a whole bunch of engines sitting there