Hunter Valley Railway Trust facts for kids
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| Established | unknown |
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| Location | North Rothbury, New South Wales Australia |
| Type | Railway museum |
| Collection size | ex New South Wales Government Railways rolling stock and privately owned locomotives |
The Hunter Valley Railway Trust (HVRT) is a special museum all about trains! It's located in North Rothbury, New South Wales, Australia. This museum collects and looks after many different types of old train cars and engines.
You can see things like coal wagons, freight wagons (for carrying goods), and passenger coaches (where people ride). They also have many old train engines, called locomotives, that used to belong to the New South Wales Government Railways.
The museum once had seven of the famous South Maitland Railways 10 Class locomotives. These were special trains that were important to history. However, these particular locomotives were later sold to another museum.
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Train Engines at the Museum
The Hunter Valley Railway Trust has a collection of different train engines. These engines have interesting histories and come from various railway lines.
South Maitland Railway 10 Class Engines
The South Maitland Railway 10 Class locomotives were a very important part of Australian railway history. The Hunter Valley Railway Trust used to have several of these engines.
- SMR 17 – This engine was kept safely indoors. It had a black paint job.
- SMR 20 – This engine was also stored indoors and was black. It could run in the 1990s, but its special safety certificate has now run out.
- SMR 23 – This engine was taken apart while it was at Rothbury. It was painted blue. Its parts have since been moved to another museum in Dorrigo.
- SMR 26 – This engine was kept indoors and was black.
- SMR 27 – This engine was stored indoors and was black. Some of its parts were used to help fix up another engine, SMR 10.
- SMR 28 – This engine was kept indoors and was black.
- SMR 31 – This engine was stored outside and was painted green.
In April 2013, all seven of these special locomotives were sold. They now belong to the Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum.
Other Special Locomotives
The museum also has other interesting train engines in its collection.
- R766 – This is a large steam engine that used to run for Victorian Railways. It is currently being fixed up and changed so it can run on a different type of railway track called standard gauge.
Images for kids
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SMR 10 at Maitland during the Hunter Valley Steamfest in 2006
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R 766 pulls a regular train from Geelong station in 1993
