There's a 1917 first-class railway carriage marooned in a car park on Peterborough's main street! Inside is an interesting history display, covering local Ngadjuri history, early farming, the boom years of Peterborough as a rail hub from the 1880s to the 1920s, then the slow decline of rail transport (and the town) until the 1990s.


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1. Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre

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Inside Peterborough's original rail depot, this excellent museum takes you back to the days of steam power, when 100 trains a day were shunting through…

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What was going on in Orroroo 500 years ago? If this giant river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) could talk, it'd be able to give us a first-hand…