The West Coast Wilderness Railway (WCWR) is a premier tourist attraction in the west of Tasmania. The railway was originally built in the 1890’s to move copper from Queenstown to the port of Strahan, a distance of 34.5kms. It was considered a major engineering feat in its day as it used an innovative approach, known as the ABT rack and pinion system, to propel the train up and down previously unimaginably steep terrain. It ran from 1899 to 1963. It was restored and commenced as a tourist train in 2002. We spent a few days on the west coast n order to do the train trip as well as a number of short walks which we’ve included to this post.