Puffing Billy Railway
A narrow gauge steam railway through the forested foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, one of the Victorian Railways' early 20th century lines. Passengers famously sit with their legs dangling out of the open carriage windows as it climbs over a timber trestle bridge.
- Where
- Belgrave, Victoria, Australia
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- -37.9075, 145.3567
Get the Puffing Billy Railway stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Puffing Billy Railway. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Victoria volume with your photos and a note.
Near Puffing Billy Railway
Dandenong Ranges National Park 11 km
Tall mountain ash forest and fern gullies about 35 kilometres east of Melbourne. Its best known track is the 1000 Steps walk from Ferntree Gully, a steep climb on stone stairs that also serves as a memorial to the Kokoda Track.
Healesville Sanctuary 29 km
A bushland sanctuary in the Yarra Ranges given over to Australian native animals, formally named after Sir Colin MacKenzie. It is one of only two places to have bred a platypus, and it helps keep alive the endangered helmeted honeyeater.
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne 34 km
Botanic gardens beside the Yarra, just south of the city centre, with sweeping lawns, lakes and plant collections from around the world. They are the Melbourne half of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, whose second site at Cranbourne is devoted to Australian plants.
Melbourne Cricket Ground 34 km
The largest stadium in Australia, in Yarra Park, established by the Melbourne Cricket Club in 1853. It is the home of Test cricket's Boxing Day match and the AFL Grand Final, and it was the main stadium of the 1956 Olympics.
St Kilda Pier 34 km
A 300 metre pier reaching into Port Phillip Bay from the St Kilda foreshore, joined to a stone breakwater. A colony of little penguins lives among the breakwater rocks, and the walk to the old pavilion kiosk at the end looks back to the city towers.
Shrine of Remembrance 35 km
A war memorial in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road, built to honour Victorians who served in the First World War and now remembering all Australians who have served. At 11 o'clock on 11 November a ray of sunlight falls through the roof onto the word Love on the Stone of Remembrance.
National Gallery of Victoria 35 km
Australia's oldest and most visited art museum, founded in 1861 and housed on St Kilda Road behind a wall of running water. Inside, the Great Hall has a ceiling of stained glass that visitors lie on the floor to look up at.
Federation Square 35 km
A public square built over railway lines opposite Flinders Street Station, with angular buildings clad in sandstone, zinc and glass. It holds the Ian Potter Centre for Australian art, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the Koorie Heritage Trust.
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Questions
Where is Puffing Billy Railway?
Puffing Billy Railway is in Belgrave, Victoria, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Dandenong Ranges National Park (11 km), Healesville Sanctuary (29 km), Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne (34 km).
How do I get the Puffing Billy Railway stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Puffing Billy Railway and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Victoria volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Puffing Billy Railway before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Victoria volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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