Bathurst Regional Council has lodged plans for the $2.4 million museum, which will feature a model train layout of the Bathurst to Lithgow line as its centrepiece. It will be housed in the old ...

TRAIN buffs are expected to pump almost $7 million into the Bathurst economy over the next 20 years once the city’s new rail museum opens.

THERE will soon be some new faces at the Bathurst Railway Museum cafe. I have been a journalist at the Western Advocate since 2014.

Restored and relocated in the grounds of the Lavender Garden Tea Rooms is the Lake Bathurst Railway Station Waiting Room. It has been converted into a small museum with a photographic display of ...

The destination board told me that an express train to Bathurst, stopping at Katoomba, was to leave platform 2 at 5.55pm. At the platform I found what appeared to be a very long train. In fact ...