Located at the corner of Wilmot and Station Streets, North Bundaberg (just outside the Botanic Gardens and right beside the North Coast Line).

Open Tuesday and Friday 9 am to 3 pm, Saturday 8 am to 4 pm. Other times by appointment; group visits on special days or times arranged. (07 4154 2170 or 07 4152 7070).

Nominal admission charge applies.

Enquiries: C/- The Secretary, Bundaberg Railway Historical Society Inc., PO Box 3203, Bundaberg 4670. E-mail: bundabergrailwaymuseum@yahoo.com.au

Bundaberg's first railway station, built in 1881 as an outlet for the Mt Perry railway bringing copper from the mines, is now preserved as a railway museum. Located some 500 metres from its original site, the museum houses a wide variety of railway items past and present.

• Photos, uniforms and catering items from dining rooms to Tilt Train.
• Books, including office records, engine driver's manuals, timetables and rule books
• Tools of various types: locomotive spanners, heavy jacks and track work tools
• Interlocked signal cabin (with operating levers to try) recovered from Lowmead station, the last CTC panel from Bundaberg, working morse code key, and modern day transponders
• 1921 guards van (originally a sleeping car) and a butter car from 1905 insulated with cow's hair which stays cool even without the ice blocks
• Fettling gang and inspector's pumper, trike and motor quads (one of which is fully operational and demonstrated) Static displays outside include a diamond crossing for cane trams to cross the government lines and various couplings, buffers, drawhooks and airhoses used on older rolling stock
• Restored QGR/QR cream shed, ex-Manypeaks (628 Kb PDF file).
• Photo update 2007 with new sheds: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, contact sheet (168 Kb pdf file).