Rail buffs have the rare opportunity to enjoy a shuttle trip in a vintage diesel train on Saturday and Sunday.
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The trains will leave Orange Railway Station and provide a nostalgic experience with open windowed carriages, as they take people for a quick train ride out of town and back again.
The Saturday trip will take people from Orange to Dubbo and back again, while the Sunday trip will travel from Orange to Bathurst and back again.
The Saturday train will depart Orange at 9.25am, and return at 10.15pm, giving a taste of what it was like to ride these vintage trains in years gone by.
Tickets cost $45 for adults and $20 for children.
The Sunday trip will depart Orange at 10.15am and return at 4.25pm.
Tickets cost $55 for adults and $35 for children.
This includes a 'Toast to the Great British' Roast Lunch in the recently restored Victoria Hotel just opposite Bathurst Railway Station.
The ride is organised by the Lachlan Valley Railway, a non-profit rail preservation society based in Cowra.
The society's present complex on Campbell Street houses more than 55 vintage carriages and locomotives under cover, and is open to visits daily - except for Christmas day - from 9am to 5pm.
The present day Lachlan Valley Railway Heritage Centre is a functioning rail facility where restoration and maintenance of locomotives and carriages is carried on in much the same and it has for over 90 years, albeit on a much smaller scale.
The current complex was originally the Cowra locomotive depot, but after its closure in the late 1970s, the responsibility for its preservation and maintenance was handed to the Lachlan Valley Railway Society.
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