Heritage route
Mary Valley Rattler
Gympie → Amamoor · Australia
Mary Valley Rattler in pictures
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- Distance
- 20 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h
- Average speed
- 20 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Rattler Railway Company
- Train
- C17 steam No. 45
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1915
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 1920s C17 barks out of Gympie across Deep Creek bridge: the 1915 fruit branch through the Mary Valley, saved twice and steaming on weekends.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 9.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 1177 m); the longest stretch away from it is 14 km
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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