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A private Dandenong Ranges tour combining Puffing Billy with the real SkyHigh Mount Dandenong lookout.
A private tour for your group only, real Puffing Billy steam train ride combined with the genuine SkyHigh Mount Dandenong lookout.
This is a private tour for your group only. A real Puffing Billy ride is combined with the genuine SkyHigh Mount Dandenong lookout.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Melbourne.
Genuine historic steam train.
Real, genuine panoramic lookout.
Just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real Puffing Billy steam train ride combined with the genuine SkyHigh Mount Dandenong lookout. This is a private tour for your group only. A real Puffing Billy ride is combined with the genuine SkyHigh Mount Dandenong lookout.
Puffing Billy is a genuine piece of working Victorian railway history, not a replica built for tourists. The 2-foot-6-inch narrow-gauge line opened on 18 December 1900, built to connect the isolated farming communities scattered through the Dandenong Ranges to Melbourne. In its working decades, the outbound train from the city carried newspapers, mail, household supplies, farm equipment and livestock up into the hills, while the return journey brought timber, fruit, vegetables and — above all — potatoes back down to Melbourne's markets.
The railway's survival is almost as remarkable as its origins. Regular services stopped in 1953 after a landslide blocked the line between Selby and Menzies Creek, and the line was formally closed the following year. Rather than let it disappear, volunteers campaigned to save it, and a section between Belgrave and Menzies Creek reopened as a tourist railway on 28 July 1962. The line was gradually rebuilt in stages over the following decades — reaching Emerald in 1965, Lakeside in 1975, and finally the full route through to Gembrook in 1998 — and today it's run almost entirely by more than 300 volunteers, from conductors and guides to the locomotive drivers themselves, using original steam locomotives and carriages on the same timber trestle bridges built over a century ago.
After stepping off the train, the tour climbs to Mount Dandenong, the range's highest point at roughly 633 metres. The summit was first marked as a survey point in the 1860s for the Victorian geodetic survey, and it has drawn visitors up for the view for well over a century since — today's SkyHigh precinct, with its lookout, restaurant and television transmission towers, sits on exactly the same ground, looking out across the forested ranges to Melbourne and Port Phillip Bay beyond.
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