The Bush Mill Railway was a gauge miniature railway, situated from Port Arthur, Tasmania. It opened on the 4th of April 1986.The Railway News Vol.53 No.2 July 2004 p. 46
Route The Bush Mill Railway climbed steeply through a series of loops and zig zags up a hillside, then across a spectacular Serpentine Bridge. A half-size replica of locomotive K1, the world's first Garratt locomotive built for the North East Dundas Tramway, was constructed to operate on the line in 1990.The Railway News Vol.45 No. 6 December 1993 p. 147
Settlement A replica settlement was established which featured a 19th-century sawmill and a number of items which were directly related to the logging tramways which once dotted much of Tasmania.The Railway News Vol.49 No.2 June/July, 1997 p. 50
It closed on 30 June 2004.
Locomotives Name Built Year Wheel Arrangement Current railway Notes K3 Bush Mill Railway 1990 Unknownmodel of the first Garratt locomotive. In the summer of 1993 it visited the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway and the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway Mountaineer W.van der heiden 1972 + tender Windmill Animal FarmOriginally named Sarah Kate, rebuilt in 1992 with a larger boiler, cylinders, new cab and tender, was rebuilt at Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway around 2012 with new even larger boiler. DA1 Bush Mill Railway 1986 Cleethorpes Coast Light RailwayDiesel locomotive, started out as auxiliary tender coupled behind Sarah Kate, until it was rebuilt into a locomotive around late 1986 to early 1987
The railway also had five semi-open coaches and two coal wagons, these became part of the collection at the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway and the coaches have now moved on to the Sherwood Forest Railway.