Steam in Australia 2017

• West Coast Wilderness Railway and West Coast Heritage Centre, Zeehan in Tasmania 
• Don River Railway and the Redwater Creek Railway in Tasmania 
• Launceston Tramway Museum and the Beaconsfield Mine and Heritage Centre in Tasmania 
• Melbourne Area Attractions in Victoria 
• Preserved Steam Road Engines in Australia

This report covers Perth Area Attractions in Western Australia, see also James Waite's visit in 2015..

"To conclude our Australian experience, just a couple of bits from Perth, WA: It really wasn't the time to visit there, no one runs steam in their hot dry summer, however, we did visit Bassendean Railway Museum which has a large collection of Western Australian locolocomotives, mainly British built, but a couple of local ones too. It's well worthwhile.

The other railway we visited was in Whiteman Park north of Perth: The 610mm (2ft) gauge Bennett Brook Railway was built here on a green field site and is most impressive with a large circuit and a branch line. The railway is fully signaled with semaphores. It is a very friendly railway, volunteer run. At present they only have one operating steam locomotive, but are busy restoring one of two SAR 2-8-2s in their fleet which will hopefully be ready late this year. The vintage tramway was also in operation with an original Perth tram."

ARHS Bassendean Railway Museum - http://www.railheritagewa.org.au/museum/pages/bassendean/ 

Pacific U655 (North British, 24863/1942) looking a lot smarter than when James saw it in 2015.

C class no 1 Katie (Robert Stephenson 2391/1880)

F^S 4-8-0 460 (North British, 20096/1913)

P^M 4-6-2 701 (North Brit6ish, 26545/1949)

Bennett Brook Railway http://bbr.org.au/