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This proposed rail trail runs along the disused Yass Tramway corridor, between Yass Junction railway station and Yass town in southern New South Wales, a distance of 4.5km.
Yass Valley Council has been provided with funding of $220,000 from the NSW Government’s Active Transport program in the 2022/23 financial year. The funds will be used for Phase 1 of the project, to plan and design the rail trail as part of a local active transport project.
The rail trail route includes a heritage listed steel bridge built in 1892 across the Yass River, and the route ends at the Yass Railway Museum (also heritage listed) near the centre of Yass.
Last updated: 22 January 2023
When constructed, the rail trail will run from Yass Junction railway station on the main southern line, through woodland down to Yass Town, crossing the Yass River before running the length of Dutton Street in Yass and ending at the Yass Railway Museum.
The rail trail route has one highway crossing at the Yass Valley Way to the north-west of town.
Yass station and Railway Museum - June 2021
Yass River bridge, December 2022.
Dutton Street, Yass - February 2002
Dutton Street, Yass, June 2021
Yass River bridge - February 2002
Yass rail trail corridor to the north of the Yass River bridge - December 2022.
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Information and Links
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Background Information
The Yass Town branch tramway was formally closed in 1988.
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Boorowa Galong Rail Trail
330 km southwest of Sydney
Goulburn to Crookwell Rail Trail
195km southwest of Sydney, in the Southern Tablelands
Molonglo (Bungendore to Captains Flat) Rail Trail
270 km South of Sydney
Murrumbidgee Valley Rail Trail
380 km southwest of Sydney
Batlow – Tumut Rail Trail
400 km southwest of Sydney
Greenethorpe to Grenfell Rail Trail
430km West of Sydney
