Scenic route
Byron Bay Solar Train
Byron Beach → North Beach · Australia
- Distance
- 3 km
- Fastest time
- 10 min
- 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
The world’s first fully solar-powered train — a 1949 “red rattler” gliding three kilometres of resurrected line to Byron Bay’s beaches.
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