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ILS Annual Hot Pot Run

Next: 6-8th June 2026 (by invitation only).

Our caravan and camper trailer sites are generally booked well in advance.

Bookings: John Wilson: fonziwill@bigpond.com​​

Staying offsite:

Preferred Motels within easy walking distance to the Club are:

  • Beach Park Motor Inn, 10 Pleasant Ave

  • Flinders Motel, 19 Flinders Street.

The preferred Tourist Parks within easy driving distance to the Club are:

  • Wollongong Surf Leisure Resort, 201 Pioneer Road, Fairy Meadow 2519 (5 Min)

  • Corrimal Beach Tourist Park, 1 Lake Parade East Corrimal 2518 (12 Min) 

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Illawarra Live Steamers has held an annual Hot Pot Run invitational event during the 3-day Kings’s Birthday Weekend since 1995.

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Local and visiting club members run trains with as much rolling stock as can be mustered in a railway like fashion.  The weekend is closed to the public, with night running permitted.

 

The aim of the weekend is to have a relaxing time, exchanging ideas with other live steam enthusiasts and have fun driving our locomotives plus experiencing night time running in balmy Wollongong evening weather.

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Entry Fee:  The time-honoured tradition of a donation of 3 cans of soup or $15 per person for the weekend.

Soups are separated into several large 'Hot Pots' for attendee meals. Unused soup cans are donated to charity. 
 

Facilities:

  • The BBQ area will be available to our Members and Visitors, outside paid breakfast meal events. 

  • 5" Track

  • 3.5" Raised Track

  • Garden Gauge 1 - well laid out configuration, encouraging the attendance of garden gauge locos and rolling stock

  • Internal roads for Traction Engines

  • Creek area for boats (please let us know in advance)

  • Limited Camping/Caravan sites are available, which book out well in advance

  • A number of Suppliers are often onsite each year to provide items for sale at their Trade Stands on Saturday and Sunday.   

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