There are nearly twenty tourist railways and tramways and museums operating in Victoria, each with its own special character. Some of these are described below. Bendigo , an elegant gold-rush era city, has talking trams. These vintage tramcars travel for 4 kilometres along one of the old routes while a recorded commentary tells of the history of the area. There are 31 trams in the fleet, including 5 Birney cars, housed in the oldest tram-shed still in use in Australia.
Services operate every day.
Trams run at weekends and on holidays. The Victorian Goldfields Railway operates from Maldon, an old gold-mining town largely preserved in its original form. The line was opened in 1900, closed by a landslide in 1954, and re-opened as a tourist railway in 1962. There is also a railway museum along the line, at Menzies Creek, open at weekends and on public holidays. Trains operate every day.