page_title: South Maitland Railway
hierarchical_section_title: South Maitland Railway
caption_attribution_description: East Greta No1 Tunnel Colliery, near Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
context_page_description: The South Maitland Railway was once an extensive network of privately owned colliery and passenger railway lines which served the South Maitland coalfields in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia and were the second last system in Australia to use steam haulage, having used steam locomotives until 1983.
  The last section was mothballed in March 2020 after operations at the Austar coal mine in Pelton were suspended.
context_section_description: The South Maitland Railway was once an extensive network of privately owned colliery and passenger railway lines which served the South Maitland coalfields in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia and were the second last system in Australia to use steam haulage, having used steam locomotives until 1983.
  The last section was mothballed in March 2020 after operations at the Austar coal mine in Pelton were suspended.
caption: East Greta No1 Tunnel Colliery coal loader
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