Heritage route
Byron Bay Solar Train
Byron Beach → North Beach · Australia
Byron Bay Solar Train in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 3 km
- Fastest time
- 10 min
- Average speed
- 18 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Byron Bay Railroad Company
- Train
- 1949 600-class railcar, solar-powered
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 2017
- Riders per year
- ≈ 100k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s first fully solar-powered train: a 1949 “red rattler” gliding three kilometres of resurrected line to Byron Bay’s beaches.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 39.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 310 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Byron Bay Train — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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