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National Railway Museum
Supported by City of Port Adelaide Enfield
Located in the heritage rich Port Adelaide precinct,
the National Railway Museum (NRM) boasts being
the largest undercover and most enjoyable railway
museum in Australia. Ranked by its peers, NRM
is considered one of best of its type in the
world. NRM is a non-government funded,
not-for-profit voluntary organisation, with a
wonderful collection of locomotives and
fascinating carriages, in addition to an
enormous variety of interpretive displays
and exhibitions. A large model railway
entertains the younger visitors.
Collection highlights
The famous ‘Tea & Sugar’ train, which until
the 1990s made its ritual once a week
crossing of the Nullarbor, supplying railway
workers and their families between Port
Augusta and Kalgoorlie.
The Overland and Melbourne Express
sleeping carriages include the timber
bodied Onkaparinga, built in 1914, and the
relatively ‘modern’ Allambi, built at Islington
Workshops in 1949.
A break of gauge station has been
re-created, symbolising the different
railway track gauges which once
proliferated around much of
South Australia.
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