Illawarra Light Railway Museum

#249 among destinations in Australia

Museum, Specialty museum, Science museum

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Facts and practical information

The Illawarra Light Railway Museum operates a mainline 2 ft narrow gauge light railway, a miniature 7+1⁄4 in gauge railway, and a museum located near Albion Park Rail near Wollongong, south of Sydney ()

Established: 1972 (52 years ago)Coordinates: 34°34'8"S, 150°47'31"E

Location

48A Tongarra RdAlbion Park Rail 2527 New South WalesAustralia

Contact

+61 2 4256 4627

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Day trips

Illawarra Light Railway Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Jamberoo Action Park, Dapto Mall, Stockland Shellharbour, St Stephen's Presbyterian Church.

3.3 miS
Amusement park
Jamberoo Action Park, Jamberoo
84 min walk • Jamberoo Action Park is a large and expansive themed water park at Jamberoo, New South Wales. It is approximately 34 km from Nowra, 15 minutes from Kiama, 30 minutes south of Wollongong and a little over an hour south of Sydney.
5.1 miN
Shopping, Shopping centre
Dapto Mall, Dapto
132 min walk • Dapto Mall is a shopping centre in the suburb of Dapto, a suburb of Wollongong in the Illawarra region.
2.7 miE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Stockland Shellharbour, Shellharbour
69 min walk • Stockland Shellharbour is a large indoor/outdoor shopping centre in the Shellharbour City Centre of the Illawarra region.
5.6 miS
Church
St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Jamberoo
143 min walk • St Stephen's Presbyterian Church is a heritage-listed former Presbyterian church at 2 Allowrie Street, Jamberoo, Municipality of Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Colley and built in 1875 by John and James Marks, D. L. Dymock and W. Stewart.
4.3 miNE
Lagoon for fishing, prawning and sailing
Lake Illawarra, Dapto
110 min walk • Lake Illawarra, an open and trained intermediate wave dominated barrier estuary or large coastal lagoon, is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, situated about 100 kilometres south of Sydney, Australia.
4.8 miSE
Park
Killalea, Shellharbour
122 min walk • Killalea State Park is a state park in New South Wales, Australia.
0.5 miN
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Shellharbour Airport
14 min walk • Shellharbour Airport, formerly Illawarra Regional Airport, also referred as Albion Park Aerodrome or Wollongong Airport, is an airport located in Albion Park Rail, Shellharbour City, New South Wales, Australia.
5.5 miSE
Surfing
Jones Beach
140 min walk • Jones Beach, also known as Boyds Beach, is a beach on the south-eastern coast of Australia, facing the Tasman Sea. The beach is east of the settlement of Kiama Downs and about 2 kilometres south by east of the settlement of Minnamurra in the Illawarra and South Coast regions of New South Wales.
5 miN
34°29'47"S • 150°47'35"E
Dapto Ribbonwood Centre, Dapto
128 min walk • Museum, Art gallery
7.4 miNE
34°29'27"S • 150°52'55"E
Futureworld Eco-Technology Centre, Wollongong
190 min walk • Museum
4.2 miE
Locality
Warilla
106 min walk • Warilla is a seaside suburb of the City of Shellharbour, Australia within the Wollongong urban area. It is one of the more established areas and is between the suburbs of Mount Warrigal in the west, Barrack Heights and Barrack Point in the south and Lake Illawarra in the north.