THEN WORLD’Ss first solar-powered railway began taking passengers in Byron Bay, on Saturday December 16 2017.
It’s the realisation of an eight-year dream held by the owners of the resort Elements of Byron and their development director, Jeremy Holmes.
Run under a separate not-for-profit entity, The Byron Bay Railroad Company, the two-carriage lovingly restored 1949 NSW train will carry passengers between North Beach Station, about 300 metres up Bayshore Road from the upmarket resort, and the centre of Byron Bay township.
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Running on existing 110-year-old rail tracks that last saw regular service in 2004, it costs $3 one-way for a three-kilometre trip that takes about seven minutes, allowing resort guests – and anyone else who wants to board, to avoid the Byron township traffic.
There’s room for 100 seated passengers, plus luggage, surfboards and some people standing.
The train may have been eight years in the making, but it was only last year the project went solar.