Margate Train

The Margate Train is a tourist attraction and shopping area located adjacent to the Channel Highway in Margate, Tasmania, and includes a number of shops and outlets housed within former Tasmanian Government Railways rolling stock.

[2] Following the cessation of passenger rail transport in Tasmania, the vehicles were sold to private buyers.

Contrary to some tourist information, the steam engine never hauled the Tasman Limited service, but ACS carriage #1 was purpose-built for this task which operated until 1978.

[4] MA3 was one of four M Class locomotives converted for better operation on steeply graded sections by fitting surplus Australian Standard Garratt 4'0" driving wheels.

Nearby is a large antiques and second hand warehouse, located in an old Henry Jones IXL apple packing shed.