Silver Stream Railway museum

Another preserved steam railway worth a visit when travelling around New Zealand is the Silver Stream Railway (remember to spell Silver Stream as two words!) which utilises a short section of the old Hutt Valley line near Silverstream, as you would expect, that was bypassed with a deviation built when the line was electrified and duplicated in the mid-1950s.

This shows one of the museum's operational steam locomotives, C132, an 0-4-2T type built in 1875, hauling a carriage that alone almost looks too big for it.  The museum is normally open on weekends.


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