One of the biggest events of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the first English settlers (a shipload of convicts!) in Australia was AusSteam 88, when over a dozen restored steam engines ran excursion trains on the mainlines of the populous south eastern region. The oldest locomotive in the world to still be powering trains in mainline service is New South Wales Government Railways 4-4-0 No. 1210, built in England by Beyer Peacock in 1878. Assisted by 4-6-4T No. 3112, built by the same company in 1914, the 1210 ran through Harden, New South Wales, on October 28, 1988.
