“It was opened in the early ’70s,” Campaspe Valley Miniature Railway Inc. president Colin McConnell said.
The railway runs passenger services on the first Sunday of each month from March to December, between 10am and 3pm.
“For the last 100 years, people have been making little models of trains, scaled-down models, and they were looking for somewhere to run them,” Colin said.
“It is not like a miniature car that you can run in a supermarket car park or something.
“You’ve got to have a designated track for a railway, obviously.”
The railway operates several types of trains.
“Steam-operated ones, ones that have petrol engines that look like diesel-electric modern trains, and ones that run on batteries,” Colin said.
“Mostly they are the petrol, diesel-electric ones.
“They look like diesel-electric trains, but have a little petrol engine inside them.”
The upcoming Steam Revival event, over the King’s Birthday weekend in June, promises to showcase multiple locomotives.
“Hopefully, four or five locomotives will be running that weekend,” he said.
“We are hoping to have, at this point, two steam trains running for the steam revival.”
“It used to be up until probably 10 years ago, it used to be all steam trains, and we would get eight or nine of them at a time.
“But it is getting more and more difficult to get the steamers out these days.”
To ride the train, children aged six and under must be accompanied by an adult and everyone is required to wear closed-toe shoes.
Tickets can be purchased at the on-site ticket office.
You can find Campaspe Miniature Railway at Rotary Park, Echuca, enter at the corner of Rose and Crossen St, Echuca.
Interested volunteers can phone Colin McConnell on 0448 548 081, visit facebook.com/echucaminiaturerailway, or simply turn up on a running day to introduce themselves.
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