The Zig Zag Railway has released photos of some of the infrastructure and rolling stock damaged in what has been described as a ‘malicious attack’ on the historic railway, believed to have taken place sometime between February 18 and Sunday March 4.
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Zig Zag Railway said that in total eight wagons, carriages and a dining cart had been damaged, including the BV 270 Composite Brake Van, which is the oldest operational passenger carriage in Australia, built in 1882 by G & E Negus of Maryborough.
Seven windows were also smashed in the recently restored Top Points Signal Box.
An open wagon on a secluded section of the track was pushed up the railway by unknown persons and left to freewheel into a cliff and other rolling stock was harmed in a second collision. All up, it was $400,000 in damages.
