G’day! Let me introduce you to my live-steam narrow gauge hobby railway… Pete’s Hobby Railway is a small 2-ft (610mm) gauge railway located on private property at Junee in southern NSW (Australia). Locomotives, steam and diesel, formerly used in the canefield tramways of Queensland, have found a new home on Pete’s Hobby Railway. The first …
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The January-February 2025 issue of Narrow Gauge World, the UK’s only newsstand magazine that puts narrow gauge centre stage with yesterday’s history, today’s news and tomorrow’s projects are all covered in detail in their pages, covers the departure of the Perry 0-6-2T locomotive from Pete’s Hobby Railway (PHR covered this ourselves in the article Former …
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From its formative period back in 2015, Pete’s Hobby Railway has relied on a small band of volunteers and supporters – with the likes of Mario, Ben, Dave and Rhys (affectionally known as “The Flunky”) who came on board from the start to build the first stages, soon joined by Rob. Along came Matt as …
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When Santa’s reindeer ceased work under a court-approved “protected industrial action” in their claims for reduced sleigh loads and more carrot-eating breaks, Santa had to wait for a train to get back to the Office. While ho-ho-hoing, he pondered where he could hire six white boomers for his Australian run! Photographed at Pete’s Hobby Railway …
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Back on August 24, 2020, Pete’s Hobby Railway announced the sale, as the result of an Expressions of Interest, of 1938-built Perry 0-6-2T steam locomotive “Chiverton” to Timbertown at Wauchope. However, Timbertown never took physical delivery of the locomotive which accordingly remained on static display at Pete’s Hobby Railway. Earlier this year, Timbertown decided to …
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On Friday 02/07, Pete’s Hobby Railway had the pleasure of entertaining Andrew and Duncan from the Kerrisdale Mountain Railway in Central Victoria — another 2-ft gauge operation, but very different from ours at PHR! The two arrived shortly after 0900 and stayed for the whole day until being “dragged off” for a quick gander at …
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On Friday 7th July last year, I said a final farewell to a great supporter of Pete’s Hobby Railway. In fact, without his assistance over the past four or five years, the Railway would not be where it is today. Together with his adult son Josh, photos of Phil’s works to support the Railway have …
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One of the aspects of having a web page is that it can be utilised to compile statistics. Of these, the most interesting so far as I am concerned, is who is following the exploits, progress or otherwise, of Pete’s Hobby Railway. Actual names would mean nothing to me, however, the countries of origin do. …
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The greater majority of the photographic images that have appeared in the various Progress and other Reports on this web page have originated from your truly. All this was to change last October! Two “outsiders” visited Pete’s Hobby Railway and have since released videos on to YouTube of what they saw.
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The January-February 2023 issue of the UK journal “Narrow Gauge World” includes the attached report on Pete’s Hobby Railway. It is a single page article that covers some of the news from our Progress Report #70
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The Short Version After almost two years out of use owing to COVID, “Torpedo” has been steamed again, passing trials with flying colours, thanks to a number of valued supporters of Pete’s Hobby Railway.
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