ON THE HEIGHT TRACK
Oct 24, 2017
4 minutes
WORDS DAVID LEVELL PHOTOGRAPHY BROOK JAMES
STRAHAN FISHING VILLAGE looks postcard-perfect across the placid early morning waters of Macquarie Harbour. We ignore it. We’re over at Strahan’s charmingly retro Regatta Point railway station (1899). We ignore that, too.
Instead, all eyes and iPhones are trained on a nondescript timber and tin shed, billowing steam. The doors open to a tooting blast of a whistle. Out rolls
Mount Lyell Number One
. Showtime!
Spick, span and spry at 121 years young, Glasgow-built
Mount Lyell Number One
has everything you’d want in a vintage steam locomotive, except maybe a Thomas the Tank Engine face. Its mission: to take us through deep, steep
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