The Blues Train

The Blues train has been running on the Bellarine rails since 1994. The original idea of The Blues Train was inspired by stories of blues musicians playing music on The Mississippi freight trains. The combination listening to music whilst travelling on a train was a success so it kept running. Each year over 10,000 people run the rails The Blues Train is run by the team at Bay City Evens with the help of the volunteers at the Bellarine Railway who maintain and drive the heritage train. Over the last two decades, The Blues Train has welcomed over one hundred amazing music acts, including solo performers, duos and full bands. The Blues Train travels along 16 km of railway between the towns of Queenscliff and Drysdale, on the Bellarine Peninsula. The train begins and ends the journey in Queenscliff. There are three intervals during the events. The train stops for each interval, the first being Suma Park platform followed by Drysdale Station where the train then turns around to return to Queenscliff via another stop at Suma Park.
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