00:00Billowing steam and bringing smiles, the northern suburbs railway line was alive today.
00:09Agatha Christie once said that travelling by train you get to see all the aspects of
00:14life, all the things that have been created by nature and all the things created by people.
00:19The Tasmanian Transport Museum has extended its tourist rail service to now run through
00:24to Berrydale, an extension of about four kilometres.
00:28Instead of just puffing around the yard here and just taking people for a bit of a ride,
00:33we can take them on a trip and go further along and look in people's backyards and see what
00:38they've got and those sort of things.
00:41For me it's nostalgic but for others it's just something new and it's calm, it's pleasant,
00:46it's peaceful.
00:47And it's been great to see people along the bike track stop and wave and you know people
00:52out on their houses and stuff like that.
00:54So it just brings a great vibe back to the city.
00:58This journey was the culmination of years of work.
01:01Our volunteers have been working since 2023.
01:04We've replaced over 400 sleepers on the railway line.
01:07And already attention is turning to the next stage, extending the line even further.
01:13Imagine if this connected through to Mona, Cadbury or even the other way into the city.
01:19This heritage train behind me might look as though it's firmly rooted in the past,
01:24but its arrival here in Berrydale marks a major step forward for Tasmania's rail enthusiasts.
01:31Today's trips were all about putting the line through its paces before public rides begin from December 28.
01:38Putting Hobart's railway movement back on track.
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