The Railway Stakes is an Australian Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race under handicap race conditions over a distance of 1600 metres at Ascot Racecourse in Perth in late November.
The inaugural running of the event was held on Perth Cup day in 1887[2] with stakes of 60 sovereigns when the three-year-old Nimrod won the event over Hermit.
[3] The event continued to be part of the Western Australian Turf Club's Summer Carnival with the race being scheduled on the same day as the Perth Cup.
In 2003 the race was held at Belmont Park Racecourse.
[4] Western Australian owner-breeder Bob Peters[5] has had six winners in the Railway Stakes: Only two horses have won it twice: Thoroughbreds that have won the Railway Stakes – Kingston Town Classic double: