Australia October 2017 - Kuranda Scenic Railway

Another highlight of our trip to Cairns was the two hour trip up to Kuranda on the Scenic Railway.  The train ride certainly lived up to its name,  It really was one of the most scenic train ride I have ever taken.

Looking up the track

Looking down the track

Across the track

Interesting ironwork above the platform

A coffee before the train arrived - we had set off very early in the morning.

Here's our train


Pretty colourful engines
 
Off we go

Another train returning from Kuranda














Enjoying the train ride
"Wards Lookout" with Kookaburra

We had a brief stop here to take photographs of the waterfall






Here we are!



This is a really pretty station






 Next -Walk into Kuranda and Butterfly farm















Comments

  1. Pauline3 January 2018 at 06:12

    Wonderful memories. It was a lovely day out together

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