{"id":267635,"date":"2025-08-16T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=267635"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:09:48","slug":"steamtown-heritage-railway-museum-closed-due-to-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=267635","title":{"rendered":"Steamtown Heritage Railway Museum closed due to costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peterborough District Council has pushed ahead with a 10 per cent average rate hike, which will still leave a $524,000 hole in its budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the highest rate increase in South Australia so far this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The town&#8217;s railway museum has been forced to close amid the cost crunch, with council documents showing it has bled at least $1.5 million since opening in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council said in a statement that Steamtown will be closed until until 2026 at the earliest while &#8220;a new operating model is developed&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"862\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8.png 862w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Peterborough residents Molly Moate, Harry Moate and Christopher Dean have raised concerns about the council&#8217;s 10 per cent rate hike.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Expected to be closed until 2026 at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expected to be closed until 2026 at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":267638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7660,47],"tags":[17781,7527,17782],"class_list":["post-267635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-heritage-and-steam","category-rail-news","tag-peterborough","tag-south-australia","tag-steamtown"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267639,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635\/revisions\/267639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}