By Jessica Anstice
It’s beginning… nope – it’s looking a lot like Christmas on the Puffing Billy line, with Gembrook Station now featuring a special guest.
On 7, 8, 14 and 15 December Santa and his trusted reindeer will be getting a head start on the holiday festivities, with a merry visit to the last stop on the railway track.
Departing from Puffing Billy’s Belgrave Station, the historic locomotive will travel through the lush fern gullies and tall mountain ash trees of the Dandenong Ranges; across four iconic trestle bridges and into the quaint Victorian whistle stopes of the Belgrave-Gembrook corridor where you will find jolly man in red waiting to meet and greet passengers.
Santa will be sitting, waiting from 12pm to 3pm.
Children 14 years and under will receive a lucky dip present from Saint Nick, while sharing their Christmas wish lists and having their photo taken.
Decorations and a real pine Christmas tree will adorn the station and add to the Christmas spirit of the platform.
With Santa taking time out of his busy schedule in the North Pole to drop by, now is the perfect time to get those last-minute Christmas wishes in.
