DownsSteam ready for Easter Saturday

The members and volunteers at the DownsSteam tourist railway and museum in Toowoomba have a big day planned for Easter Saturday with extra attractions to enhance the experience.

The day will feature tours of the precinct as well as live music and special activities for kids, including an Easter Egg Hunt.

The famous on site locomotive number 106 will run across a short distance of track and two railmotors will be working as well.

Locomotive 106, which DownsSteam has dubbed “The Pride of Toowoomba”, is the last surviving rail vehicle built at the Toowoomba Foundry.

Another feature of the day will be the chance to experience a ride in bus number 907, a Leyland Tiger on loan from Ipswich.

The heritage bus rides will be free and will take passengers on a short trip around Drayton.

One of the popular attractions at DownsSteam is the Dreamtime Journey Coach which was initiated by the museum’s members to acknowledge the contribution by the region’s Indigenous people to the construction of the rail crossing across the Toowoomba Range.

Among the offerings at the DownsSteam café on Easter Saturday will be light lunches as well as barista coffee and hot cross buns.

The gates open at 9am and the event continues until 3pm.