Since commencing in December 2017, it operates on a three-kilometre section of the largely disused Casino-Murwillumbah line.

Nine years later, an extension from Lismore to Casino opened (and later south to Grafton – it was not until 1932 that the line was fully connected to Sydney).

[1] The Casino-Murwillumbah railway was closed in 2004, with the last NSW CountryLink XPT train leaving Murwillumbah on 15 May 2004.

The section of track to the north of the town centre was fully restored by private investment at a cost of about $300,000 per kilometre.

The conversion was completed in October 2017, and the railmotor was moved from Lithgow by road, arriving on 3 November 2017.

[12][13] Electricity will be supplied from the grid when there is insufficient solar and the train is intended to run on diesel fuel about once a week.

[1] The North Beach station is located on Bayshore Drive, near the Sun Bistro Tavern and Elements of Byron Resort.