page_title: City Park, Launceston
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: City Park, Launceston / Features
caption_attribution_description: The children's train, Little Toot, in Launceston City Park, Tasmania, September 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Park,_Launceston
context_page_description: Launceston City Park is a park in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Established in the 1820s by the Launceston Horticultural Society and handed over to the Launceston City Council in 1863. It is now an important part of cultural life in Launceston and also a heritage park.
context_section_description: The parks attractions include many gardens, a conservatory, band stand, duck pond, children's playground, the Tasmanian Design Center and a Monkey Island, which houses a group of macaques that are separated from visitors by a glass wall and a small moat. The park has a series of memorials and statues including Launceston's Boer War Memorial, a statue of Tasmanian botanist Ronald Campbell Gunn and a plinthed cannon taken as a war trophy from the Crimean War. The most prominent building at the park is the Albert Hall. Next to the Albert Hall are the studios of City Park Radio, located in the former Park Caretakers Cottage, which also has one of the oldest wisteria vines in Australia, planted in 1837.  The park plays host to Festivale, a popular annual food festival held every February.
  Three different trains have been operating around the paths of the park since 1960, giving rides to the children of Launceston. The first train was made in 1960 by TJ & ND Burness, an engineering business at 6 Herbert St Launceston. The train consisted of an engine and four carriages, brightly coloured, and was known as Little Toot.
caption: Little Toot, City Park, 1963
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