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    THE SUNSHINE TRAIN!

    Sep 17, 2018 4 minutes
    The solar train at North Beach station.

    Byron Bay in New South Wales is the most easterly point in Australia, well known for its wonderful surfing beaches, less well known as the home of the director and producer of the Crocodile Dundee movies, but completely off the map with regard to any kind of railway engineering.

    That was until the Byron Bay Railroad Company (BBRC) was formed to reopen a two-mile section of main line track which had not been used since 2004 following an NSW State decision to suspend all rail services between Casino and Murwillumbah.

    The BBRC’s original plan was to operate a DMU unit between Byron Bay town and North Beach

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