Platform Souls (J)
Lilliputland (in Jervis Bay, ACT) has the longest N-gauge railway system under the sun. With more than 40 scale-kilometres laid out, and up to 14 locos chuffing about at once, Lilliputland is model mayhem.
The display was built during the 1970s, and toured the country much like a Barnum & Bailey freak, but this little chunk of ACT coast is now its permanent home.
Cranes lift. Funiculars trundle. Farms, factories and fairgrounds rely on a day/night cycle that elapses every 30 minutes. And for the less train-tragic in your clan, a dollhouse village called Greenleaf Valley adds to the microcosm.
[49 Woollamia Road. Open weekends, 10-4, as well as every day in January, or during NSW public hols. Entry $8, $5, $12 family. Phone 02-4447-8664]